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Flip the mold over and voila! – you’ve got perfect little sugar bon bons. There is no trick to these at all, the sugar falls right out of the molds. The only thing you have to do is make sure to mold your sugar while it is still damp. If you mess up, just scoop up the sugar and remold it!

Turn plain sugar into fancy sugar cubes for Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, or any day you want to treat yourself to a proper afternoon tea. These are perfect for champagne cocktails, too!

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Plain sugar makes adorable and versatile sugar cubes that will last indefinitely, and I’m guessing most of you will be happy with plain sugar. But if you’ve got the creative urge, you can definitely embellish…

These homemade sugar cubes are a really straightforward, simple project, it shouldn’t cause you any trouble at all. Whether you’re treating mom, or just kicking back with friends, the only thing you have to decide is…one lump, or two?

Press down firmly so the sugar gets into all the parts of the mold, especially if you’re using a decorative mold like I did. Remove any excess sugar from the surface of the mold with a bench scraper.

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We want to help reduce the confusion and make it easier for prospective customers to understand what they're buying. Alongside DPReview, PetaPixel, Cameralabs, Gerald Undone, The Art of Photography and potentially more publications and YouTube channels, we will adopt a new naming system that better conveys the physical sensor size of what are often referred to as 1-inch type sensors. The physical size of an image sensor has a real, sometimes significant, effect on image quality. We want readers to better understand the sensor size of a product without needing to get into the weeds on the history of CRT broadcast cameras and hypothetical glass tubes.

Is it an outright lie when manufacturers make claims like "our smartphone is the first to include a 1-inch sensor," or "our drone uses a large 1-inch image sensor?" Not exactly, but at the very least, it's misleading and confusing. For this reason, Sony Semiconductor, one of the world's premiere sensor makers, has already changed its naming system.

After all this time, and despite using wildly different technology than CRT broadcasting cameras in the 1950s, the 1-inch nomenclature has remained. The photosensitive area in question wasn't an inch in diameter back then, and it still isn't now. Modern 1-inch sensors refer to a hypothetical CRT tube that would be an inch in diameter to theoretically fit around a 1-inch type image sensor.

While compact cameras with small sensors are becoming rarer, there are still many popular cameras with Type 1 image sensors, like the Sony RX100 Mark VII. Where we most often see small sensors are with new smartphones and drones. We hope the change to "Type 1 (sensor dimensions) sensor" will make it easier to understand the sensor size for these new products and help readers make more informed decisions about what they'd like to purchase. While there's no doubt that you can capture amazing images with small image sensors, sensor size does matter.

If you’re making plain sugar cubes you can do this in a bowl with a spoon, but be sure to get all the sugar evenly moistened. It should have the consistency of damp or wet sand. I actually use my trusty Cuisinart mini food processor to blend up the sugars because it does a quick, even job. You’ll definitely need the processor if you’re doing some flavored sugars, like lemon or mint.

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Moving forward, we will refer to typical 1-inch type sensors as Type 1 (12.7 x 9.5mm). For even smaller image sensors, we'll refer to those in a similar format, writing out Type 1/X (approximate sensor dimensions). While we could refer to larger image sensors similarly – full-frame cameras would be Type 2.7, for example – there's no need, as those sensor formats are well-understood and sensible. Nothing is misleading about "full frame." There is possible confusion with medium-format cameras since medium-format sensors come in a couple of sizes (44 x 33mm and 53.4 x 40mm), but we always make a point to note sensor size when reviewing medium-format cameras, like the Fujifilm GFX 100S (44 x 33mm) and Phase One IQ4 150MP (53.4 x 40mm).

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The invention of the sugar cube was revolutionary for the time, as it allowed for more precise measurements of sugar in recipes and made it easier to transport and store sugar. Sugar cubes became popular in Europe in the mid-19th century and were first introduced to the United States in the 1870s.

“Oh my goodness, these are adorable, Sue. My daughter and I were at a French patisserie the other day and she asked me how sugar cubes are made. I am pinning this and getting her to make them!” ~Julia

My idea of heaven is sitting down to a proper afternoon tea, and I’m lucky enough to have experienced some of the world’s best, from Claridges in London to The Ritz Paris and The Plaza in New York City. When I lived in Los Angeles we’d hit up the Langham Hotel in Pasadena to get our high tea fix. But most of the time, let’s face it, when I get the urge for a late afternoon tea break I’m doing it myself. From homemade scones and clotted cream, to easy tea cakes and sandwiches I’ve always loved teatime recipes. Today I’ll show you one of my favorite finishing touches to the perfect tea: homemade sugar cubes!

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A 1"-type sensor must be an inch, right? It would make sense. However, as surely some of you know, a 1-inch sensor is considerably smaller than an inch. It's confusing and odd. If the name of a sensor includes a unit of measurement, why is the measurement not accurate? To overcome this confusion, we will change our naming system style guide to "Type 1 (sensor dimensions)." This will make it immediately clear what the actual sensor area is when discussing the smaller "1-inch type" image sensors found in many smartphones, drones, and compact cameras.

The odd naming convention goes back to the dimensions of a hypothetical glass tube that could surround the 1-inch sensor. Live broadcasting cameras in the 1950s used cathode-ray tubes (CRT) to project an image line after line. The glass tube that surrounded a signal plate had a 1-inch diameter, although the photosensitive area of the tube was only about 0.63" in diameter – or around 16mm. The typical diagonal of a modern 1-inch type sensor is, you guessed it, 16mm (15.9mm, to be precise).

The first sugar cubes were made in the early 19th century, invented by Jacob Rad, a German businessman who was looking for a way to make it easier to measure and transport sugar. Rad’s sugar cubes were made by mixing sugar with a small amount of water and then pressing the mixture into small cube-shaped molds. The cubes were then dried and packaged for sale. They were made with the exact same process we’ve used today.

Greetings from Down Under, this is such a sweet idea (excuse the pun). I would love to surprise my family & friends with these cute sugar shapes. I have two silicone molds a star shaped & a heart shaped. I saw in some of the comments that this can be done by hand & I was wondering if caster sugar can be used or should I just stick with normal granulated sugar?

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It's confusing. The image sensor "format" is not the same as its size. That inconsistency by itself isn't confusing – medium-format doesn't refer to the image sensor size – but it is confusing when the sensor format relies upon an inaccurate unit of measurement in its name. If you didn't know the origin of the term "1-inch type sensor," you'd reasonably conclude that a 1-inch-type sensor is an inch wide or an inch in diagonal.

Our database will be updated to reflect this change later down the road, but we will employ the new naming system from today.

This project is super-duper easy, even your toddler can help. You can use them to fancy-up your own cup of tea, or add them to a breakfast-in-bed tray. And sugar cubes are essential for a celebratory champagne cocktail.

The sugar cubes will be very delicate at first, and you need to leave them alone to let them dry. They dry firm in less than an hour, and then you can set them out on a tray or in a bowl. The plain ones will keep indefinitely, but the ‘flavored’ ones will not last as long because the scent and flavors will eventually fade.