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    MYO Fizzy Water

    How adding carbon dioxide can reduce your carbon footprint.

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    Snacks with Your Sparkler

    It’s amazing how well a good sparkling wine can pair with food that comes from boxes and plastic bags.

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    Finding Soda Chargers in GTA

    I assume what the OP means is the miniature tanks/canisters of carbon dioxide used in home seltzer makers (machines?) - here in NYC most reasonably well stocked kitchen stores seem to have them. I don’t know the equivalents...

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    flourless no-bake instant stovetop skillet sugar cookies

    Karumeyaki (also known as dalgona) and popki (sugar cutouts) are examples of flourless sugar cookies made in copper skillets. Precise timing of the release of carbon dioxide from baking soda seems to be key in making instant...

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    Question about chilled wine?

    A wine’s ability to hold carbon dioxide decreases as it warms. So, warming a sparkling wine will cause it to release some of its dissolved gas, making for a bigger pop on opening and lots of foam but fewer, less vigorous...

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    exploratorium

    such as filling balloons with carbon dioxide from yeast, making sugar and salt crystal sculptures, building a pickle battery and even making gluten balls. http://www.exploratorium.edu/pr/accidentalscientist.html

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    Best tasting cocoa powder?

    't do this very often, as thinking makes my head hurt. The upshot is, that your rising reaction may stop too soon and may not produce enough carbon dioxide gas to make the cake rise properly. I’ll try to explain the chemistry...

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    Galley Girl's Pear Tart---any ideas for making without baking soda?

    Rumford Baking Powder is in good supply in the mid-west. I was taught in one of my Foods and Nutrition classes in college that it has the highest carbon dioxide yield of al of the baking powders. We had to do some baking...

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    Floot!

    From their web-site "we modified the traditional method of making champagne. We start with a blend of high quality white wines and infuse the effervescence." Did they think people might not understand 'pump in carbon dioxide'?

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    does vinegar go bad?

    Yes, it’s alive. It’s the cellulose left behind by the bacterial culture that produces acetic acid. It eats sugar and excretes acetic acid, similar to the way that yeast eats sugar and excretes carbon dioxide. That...

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    expired baking powder

    carbon dioxide yield of any baking powder giving the best rise.

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    difference between 'sparking' and 'club soda' ?

    I believe club soda has a high sodium content. Sparkling water usually has a broader array of minerals. I think seltzer is water injected with carbon dioxide.

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    Sourdough dissenter

    There is indeed a difference. Sourdough starters are a mixed culture, that is there are at least two different types of microorganisms present, some sort of wild yeast that provides a great deal of flavor, and the carbon dioxide...

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    Best red velvet recipe?

    , considering that it has such a sharp flavor. But as an acid, vinegar is often included in cake and cookie batters to react with baking soda and start the chemical reaction needed to produce carbon dioxide and give those batters...

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    Chargers for Whipped Cream Dispenser

    Ur right. one is Carbon Dioxide (for soda water) the other is Nitrogen. bust with the Whip-Its!!!

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