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Can Splenda be substituted for regular sugar when making your own sweetened condensed milk?

Can you substitute Splenda for the regular sugar in making your own sweetened condensed milk
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How to mask/reduce stevia's metallic after taste?

I use SugarLess stevia and erythritol blend when I'm baking or making home made ice creams. But in almost all of the things I bake or cook using this product, there is a metallic after taste that lingers for 3-4 minutes. The finished food items…
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How can I fix a dish that has been over sweetened?

I often made a mistake while cooking that my sweet dishes gets over sweetened.(specially while making sweet rice,sheer khorma and custard) Is there any way/trick to fix the over sweetened dish?
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What is the point in combining sucralose and acesulfame potassium?

What is the point in combining the no-calorie, artificial sweeteners sucralose and acesulfame potassium? I'm asking as I have seen some products doing so, e.g. Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein Powder, Extreme Milk…
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What are the equivalent amounts of these sweeteners?

I've been looking into using one of/some combination of the following: Powdered sucralose, Sucralose liquid, Powdered stevia extract, Liquid stevia extract, Erythritol I'd like to know which one/combination is the most economical for sweetening…
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When is granular erythritol as good as powdered?

Is there any recipe for which granular erythritol (i.e., crystals) is at least as useful as powdered erythritol (i.e., very finely ground)? Cooking with granular erythritol usually requires dissolving it. In my experience, erythritol doesn't…
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Substituting stevia for erythritol in recipes

I use stevia as a sweetener now. I have seen a couple of sweets recipes that use erythritol. I have stomach issues with any sweetener that ends in "tol." I am wondering if I can substitute stevia as the sweetener in these recipes?
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