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A man in Wisconsin discovered a way to make peanut brittle that doesn't stick to your teeth.
Yaw Asare, a man living in Appleton Wisconsin found a way to make peanut brittle that doesn’t stick to your teeth. Asare was originally from Ghana and has fond memories of him being at recess at his school and eating brittle that didn’t stick, and since arriving in Appleton in 1992, he wasn’t able to find an American brittle that can compare to the one he ate back home. In 2020, Asare began selling Sharay's Ghana Style Brittle at farmers markets, to store owners and on Facebook.
“Not only did I satisfy my hunger for this particular product," Asare said. "But it seems I’ve resolved an issue people have with the regular peanut brittle.” He also said that it is easier to grow a business by word of mouth than what he’s been doing by the past few years, an example of this is how much the sales of the products doubled over the year of 2020 to 2021. Asare started out with just selling it to friends and family, to selling it to people throughout the whole of the United States of America.
According to Asare, when his mother first gave him the recipe and he tried recreating it, it failed horribly the sugar seized up ruining the batch. He said that the secret is not what’s being added, but what’s being taken away, corn syrup. Asare said that “corn syrup causes brittle to go all gooey, gummy and tooth-clingy as it melts in your mouth, whereas sugar crunches, crumbles and dissolves.