Bicarbonate Of Soda (Baking Soda)

Baking soda, also known as sodium bicarbonate, is one of the essential ingredients used in baking to leaven the dough. You can use this ingredient to make cakes, cookies, bread, biscuit, or other doughy food. Since baking soda is salt, it tastes a bit salty and bitter. When you add a suitable amount of this powder to your ingredients, you won’t feel the taste. But if you add an excessive amount of it, the final result may have a bitter flavour. Baking soda has many other uses; rather than cooking, it can be used to whiten teeth, as a mouthwash, or even as a deodorant.

General information

The exact and complete name is sodium bicarbonate. It is used mainly in bakery and confectionery products. It is a kind of salt made of sodium, and its appearance is a white powder, crystalline solid. It is soluble in water, and after solubility, it will be colourless like pure water. There are no calories in this product, and it is completely alkaline.

The best way of Bicarbonate Of Soda usage

If you want to use this product in your cooks, it is better to add it to the dry powders and mix them by spoon. After that, you can add milk, water, egg, etc. in this way, you can prevent decomposition before cooking, and it will not boil to make danger. So it is a safe way of using this product and enjoying its effect on cooks.

Storage

Because this is decomposed in about 80 centigrade, be sure the place you are keeping the product is cold and dark. So you can store the bicarbonate of soda in a dark, dry location, away from any moisture(it loves to absorb humidity).