Questions tagged [baking-soda]
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Create a water + baking soda solution?
I was wondering if there is a way I can mix the two and put it in a spray bottle? I would like to use water + baking soda in some cases to spray a little rather than have large amounts. Is it possible?...
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How can I tell if this is baking soda or powder?
Sure it'd be easier and cheap to just buy new soda and powder but I'm curious.
I had a jar of either baking soda or powder. The marker with which I'd labeled it rubbed off during a house move and I ...
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Can baking powder be replaced with baking soda and cream of tartar? [duplicate]
As far as I understand, baking powder is basically just baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) combined with an acid.
Also as far as I understand, cream of tartar is a common acid in baking powder - and ...
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Why doesn't my rice-flour cake rise with fruit?
MY rice flour cakes always rise nicely, resulting in a fluffy cake. When I add pieces of fruit (mostly fresh) like cherries in a chocolate cake, apples in an apple cake or shredded sweet potato, the ...
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The Upper Bound on a Baking Powder
Using not enough baking powder results in catastrophe both in appearance and taste. However, too much of anything is harmful.
I have searched for some universal rule for what is too much baking powder,...
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How much baking soda should I add to a cup of hunts tomato sauce to neutralize the acid?
I have Hunts 100% natural no salt added tomato sauce. There is only one variety that Huntz makes that says "Tomato Sauce".
I am wondering how much baking soda will be enough to neutralize ...
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What can you use in cookie dough as a binding agent other than eggs or sugar? [duplicate]
Most recipes for cookies (oatmeal or chocolate chip) contain eggs or somthing sweet. By "somthing sweet" I mean corn syrup, maple syrup, honey, agave necter, and/or sugar.
Suppose you had to ...
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When does baking soda make a dough taste bitter?
There are times when I have accidentally mixed up baking powder and baking soda in a recipe resulting in a bitter, almost metallic tasting dough. However, my signature pancake recipe uses a mix of ...
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Cleaning with baking soda stains?
I cooked some ribs and used a baking sheet under my rack.
Later I cleaned the greasy bits by soaking the baking sheet and rack in a baking soda solution until the water was gone. Then I added vinegar ...
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heat-induced leavening agent
there's baking soda (or sodium bi-carbonate) and and baking power for for numerous baking applications (if there's a cooking use, please call me out on that!). baking soda creates porosity via ...
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How can I tell whether my baking recipe has enough acid to activate the baking soda?
I've been trying to modify my grandmother's oatmeal cookie recipe to use less brown sugar, but all of my batches are coming out with a slightly 'metallic' taste.
I've attributed this to the baking ...
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What is the point of a "Friendship Bread" starter?
Recently I started a "Starter" for Friendship Bread with some active (non wild) yeast. I thought it would be a good way to keep an active culture of yeast around in general and get some nice ...
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Will frozen mangos work as a substitute for apples?
So, I have an old box of Koopman Oud-Hollandse Appelkaneel cake mix, which lists on its ingredients "Raising Agents 450 and 500", and looking online, it appears that Raising Agent 500 is ...
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What provides the acid for leavening in this banana bread recipe?
I have made this banana bread recipe a couple of times. The ingredients are:
All-purpose flour
Salt
Brown sugar
Baking soda
Bananas
Butter
Eggs
My understanding is that baking soda requires some ...
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Why pre-mix baking soda into 2 tsp of milk?
I am not much of a cook, but about this time every year, I pull out a favorite family recipe for cookies. My grandmother made these cookies for me when I was a child, and when I got older she wrote ...
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If I can't find baking soda or baking powder, what should I do?
Suppose I'm somewhere where stores don't seem to stock baking soda or baking powder. Are there other names either of those might be sold under? Or are there things I could substitute?
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What are the best timings of adding flour and soda into batter?
Some pancake family recipes require adding soda.
I have read in some professional pancake recipes that it's better to leave the batter for a couple of hours, ideally overnight, to let flour infuse ...
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How to bake baking soda to produce sodium carbonate?
I'd like to make sodium carbonate for ramen noodles. The instructions on the web however vary greatly. One source says to bake baking soda at 350 degrees for 2-5 hours. Others say 250 degrees for an ...
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Is cake donut mix the same as all purpose flour?
Was gifted a 50lb bag of cake donut mix and my kids wanted to learn how to make donuts. All the recipes we've researched call for all purpose flour and I couldn't find a definitive if this cake mix ...
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How can I skin hazelnuts at home?
I am trying to make a hazelnut butter, for the ultimate gain of a vegan Nutella-like outcome, but in order to do so I need to use "skinned" hazelnuts. I've tried the following:
Boil a cup ...
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Best time to benefit from dough mixed with baking soda
I am preparing a dough with all purpose flour, salt, sugar, oil, curd, lemon juice and baking soda. I am not using baking powder. Within how much time should I complete my baking to reap maximum ...
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Why adding soda without vinegar to the cake batter?
I have this well-rated chocolate cake recipe that I have not baked yet.
It's ingredients (among others) are
175g self-raising flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
My understanding is that soda is needed ...
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Baking soda accident in pretzel dough - Can it be salvaged?
I made a mistake and put the baking soda in the pretzel dough! Instead of using it for its intended purpose ( Boiling the pretzel dough in it before baking.) It was a box mix: Pretzel Creations ...
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How much baking powder & baking soda do I need to use for my cocoa cookies?
How much baking powder & baking soda do I need to use for my cocoa cookies?
Based on the following recipe that does not contain egg, and makes use of both types of cocoa powder. I am trying to get ...
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Undoing the flavor effects of baking soda in cooking
I recently learned that if you put a bit of sodium bicarbonate on onion when frying it, the onion will literally melt away. This is absolutely amazing, and I love that trick.
But I tried it now when I ...
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Can/should I use baking soda when cooking beans?
My recipe for hummus says to cook the garbanzo beans with a little baking soda to soften them. Does this work with other legumes?
I've often seen the advice against salting the cooking water for ...
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fluffiness of medu vada without baking soda
How do we keep the medu vada batter fluffy without adding baking soda?
I would like to use it less, hence trying to find a substitute for the ingredient, or better if the technique for cooking medu ...
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Which is better to use baking soda or baking powder for making cakes?
I'm confused. I would like to know which is better to use: baking powder or baking soda for making cake. Or which is best for what recipes.
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Can I use tartaric acid in making Snickerdoodles?
I am following the Cook's Illustrated recipe for Snickerdoodles, which calls for a 2:1 ratio of cream of tartar to baking soda. They state explicitly at the very top of the recipe:
Cream of tartar is ...
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Irish soda bread kneading process
I do understand how soda reacts with buttermilk but I do not know when. Does this happens during the baking process or does the reactions starts soon as they are mixed together?
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Malt barley powder: pancake killer?
I got some barley malt powder at H Mart
https://hmart.co.uk/shop/en/pan-frying-powder/4496-tureban-dry-malt-barley-powder-400g-8804129001021.html
and tried using it in pancakes. The pancakes stay ...
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Can I store dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, baking soda, etc) together?
I am planning on making a bunch of gingerbread this year, the recipe I use takes both baking powder and baking soda. In order to cut down on dishes and time I thought I might mix all of the dry ...
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Soda Bread disaster
I've just tried to make this recipe from the BBC Good Food site: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/simple-soda-bread. The only variation was I used semi-skimmed milk (2% fat) instead of the whole ...
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I baked breads, rolls, pizzas, marinated meats starting with a cold oven to use less energy. Is my “strategy” unpromising when baking sweet desserts?
My strategy is as in the topic, plus near the end, I switch the oven off and then use the still accumulated heat to cook food. I think I have a good intuition as far as baking savoury items is ...
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How should baking soda be used to tenderize meat?
At some Chinese restaurants, I've had beef dishes where the meat was unusually tender. It also has a somewhat unusual texture, which is hard to describe. I understand that this is a result of using ...
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Can I use baking powder in place of baking soda for dipping pretzels?
I made pretzel dough and its ready to be shaped.
Somehow I have no baking soda left. Can I use baking powder in place of baking soda? Or is there something else I can use for the dipping step?
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Is Erythritol acid or alkaline and what is it's pH compared to brown sugar?
Is Erythritol acid or alkaline and what is it's pH compared to brown sugar?
In many baking recipes, baking soda is added together with acidic ingredients, such as brown sugar.
Also, this way, the ...
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Too much Baking Soda in Banana Bread
I accidentally put in banana bread 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda instead of 3/4 tsp of baking soda. Is it going to be edible?
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Baking soda to cancel acidity?
Simple question: can you generally use baking soda to cancel acidity in your dishes?
For instance, sometimes tomato sauce is too acidic, or you put too much vinegar in some dish, etc.
The simple ...
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Why is baking soda included in sourdough cracker recipe?
I'm following a recipe for crackers made with unfed sourdough starter (other ingredients are flour, oil, and salt). It also calls for 1/4 tsp baking soda and I'm wondering why since the dough sits on ...
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sherbet: adding a base or not?
When you hear sherbet (powder) described by the "science is fun" camp, it's made of three components: a sugar, an acid, and a base (almost always bicarb). I also think this is the kind of sherbet that'...
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Why should I bake baking soda for making ramen noodles?
I see this recipe for ramen noodles ("alkaline noodles") that says to use bicarb / baking soda that is baked in a very slow oven for an hour (250F / 120C) before incorporating into the noodle dough. ...
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Why should I boil pretzels in baking soda water before baking?
This weekend I made pretzels from Alton Brown's recipe.
This recipe, and others I've seen, call for dipping the pretzels one by one in boiling water with baking soda for 30 to 60 seconds.
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Does acidity negate double-acting baking powder?
As described here, most common baking powders contain two acids, one that reacts to moisture, and one that mostly reacts when heated. Does that mean that if my dough is already acidic (and has no ...
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What kind of reaction when you combine sodium bicarbonate and sodium acid pyrophosphate?
Is it a single reaction slow raising agent?
It only activates when on a heat right?
My product is a Chinese fried dough known as youtiao...
And also going to add with ammonia bicarbonate
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Baking soda as a substitute for baking powder
I am making a pancake recipe that calls for 2 teaspoons of baking powder, which I do not have.
I was wondering if it would be ok to use baking soda as a substitute, and if so, how much would I need ...
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How to get intended taste using baking powder instead of acid + baking soda?
A coffee cake recipe calls for using sour cream and baking soda. I understand that acid + baking soda is a leavening agent and you can use them as a substitute for baking powder. But I only have ...
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pizza with baking soda instead of yeast
I have a friend who is allergic to yeast so I'm looking for a way to make a pizza dough with baking powder instead of it.
Should I add a bit of lemon juice to counteract the baking soda?
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What is the difference between baking soda and baking powder?
And can I use one in place of the other in certain recipes?
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