Why Does My Homemade Caramel Taste Bitter. Your jam may taste bitter because its over-cooked. Reasons which involve high temperature of the pan on which.
Theres usually a way to fix things if your patient. 1 cup heavy cream. Eventually more and more bitter potent-tasting molecules will form that if left unchecked can make the caramel taste acrid and burnt.
You should avoid stirring caramelising sugar because you run the risk of flicking bits of it onto the side of the pan.
Try adding 14 cup of water to the sugar this should stop it catching and burning. These isolated bits cook faster and thus burn then drop into the rest of the sugar. Why does my caramel taste bitter. Sometimes overcooked jam can be good thing as it has a nice caramel flavour that will work well used in desserts.