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Baking Powder Vs. Baking Soda
Both are leavoning agents - Baking Soda is Sodium Bicarbonate and needs some sort of acid added to create its leavoning power by the creation of Carbon Dioxide - Baking powder contains Sodium Bicarbnate but also has an Cream of...
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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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fizzy drinks questions
I’m not really sure what you mean by "greater carbonation." I believe what happened in the show was they diet (with aspartame) reacted fastest. So, the carbon dioxide turned into oxygen fastest, because there were more...
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Nightstand Drinks
difference between regular water and seltzer is insignificant. There’s a little carbon dioxide dissolved in it, and if you served it warm, or left it open at room temperature, most would be gone quickly. Don’t forget...
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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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Eating al fresco - mosquio repellent products needed
Buy a piece of dry ice and set it in the yard away from where you’ll be dining. As it sublimates, the carbon dioxide will attract the mosquitos and draw them away from you. (IIRC, it’s the CO2 in your breath that...
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Requested Chocolate Pound Cake
In a bowl mix together 1 C. cocoa powder (Iprefer Scharffen Berger unsweetened and not dutched) with 2 C. a.p. flour 1/2 tsp. baking powder (Rumford if you can get it no aluminum taste and has the highest carbon dioxide yield) 1...
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Club Orange soda
in Ireland and it contains 11% orange juice, including pulp. It tastes orangey, the way I’ve always wanted orange sodas to taste, but they never do. The ingredients are basically sugar, water, carbon dioxide, orange juice,...
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Federweisser (young wine) in Manhattan ?
've had it in Germany during the harvest season (this time of year). It’s loosely capped to allow the bubbles of carbon dioxide of the ongoing alcoholic fermentation to escape, otherwise the container would explode. Also,...
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Letting dough rest -- why the floured cloth?
one function in life and that is to eat sugar and produce carbon dioxide, thus causing rise. Yeast work best between 85 and 115 F, but remember that as they work they produce heat, so you want to aim for about 85 F. Yeast die at...
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There is a rock in my bottle of Guinnes
Some Guinness is bottled with a little plastic ball that is supposed to simulate an authentic Guiness pour (creamy, very small bubbles, under nitrogen rather than carbon dioxide). I find it similar to a bar pour in all the wrong...
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when to use baking powder vs baking soda?
not contain acid — it’s just plain sodium bicarbonate, so it’s used when the liquids are acidic — e.g. sour cream, buttermilk, orange juice. The acids mix with the sodium bicarbonate to create carbon...
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Soda: Plastic vs. Glass
about the plastic surface, perhaps more surface area at a Very micro level, causes this release of carbon dioxide. This takes some of the “bite” out of the soda and diminishes one of the greatest pleasures derived...
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Is all club soda alike?
's just water and carbon dioxide.So it seems like there would be nothing to distinguish one from another.I want to try this Ginger Ale recipe out this weekend and thought who better to satisfy my newfound curiousity about this...
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where to purchase natural, chemical free charcoal for the 4th of July?
I’m curious to know why you want this type of coal? I think you should realize that coal really isn’t clean. When you burn it you will create mostly carbon dioxide and water, but also a variety of other compounds that...
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