What's the Difference Between Baking Powder and Baking Soda?
Powder vs. Soda: an important distinction! Hosted by: Hank Green Learn more about sourdough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug5RlajQ7Ds Want your ...
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(upbeat futuristic music) - If you've ever made one of those paper mache volcanoes, you know that household acids like vinegar and bases like baking soda react to produce gases, that bubbly lava. But did you know that a similar chemical reaction is what makes cakes and biscuits fluffy? If you see a recipe call for baking soda or baking powder, that's what helping your tasty baked goods rise. Baking soda and baking powder are just made up of slightly different compounds, which can affect the chemistry of your cooking. Back before grocery stores and fancy cake recipes, if you wanted to make your bread rise, you needed leavening agents from natural sources. And by that, I mean bakers would leave their dough sitting out so that wild yeast from the air could move in. The yeasts digest su...
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(upbeat futuristic music) - If you've ever made one of those paper mache volcanoes, you know that household acids like vinegar and bases like baking soda react to produce gases, that bubbly lava. But did you know that a similar chemical reaction is what makes cakes and biscuits fluffy? If you see a recipe call for baking soda or baking powder, that's what helping your tasty baked goods rise. Baking soda and baking powder are just made up of slightly different compounds, which can affect the chemistry of your cooking. Back before grocery stores and fancy cake recipes, if you wanted to make your bread rise, you needed leavening agents from natural sources. And by that, I mean bakers would leave their dough sitting out so that wild yeast from the air could move in. The yeasts digest su...
