How To Extinguish Soda
Author: Leticia Celentano
Time for reading: ~2
minutes
Last Updated:
August 08, 2022
CHAPTERS (Table Of Contents)
When we prepare pastries, pancakes and pancakes, we try to achieve maximum splendor, tenderness and airiness of the finished product. This is achieved in different ways: by adding yeast, baking powder, soda.
Why put out the soda
When we prepare pastries, pancakes and pancakes, we try to achieve maximum splendor, tenderness and airiness of the finished product. This is achieved in different ways: by adding yeast, baking powder, soda.
Baking soda is a good baking powder, but it needs to be handled properly. Soda loosens any product always in 2 stages: the first time a chemical reaction takes place, the release of gas bubbles occurs when soda comes into contact with an acidic environment. In the second stage, the soda continues to loosen the products at the moment when they are heated during baking.
Most housewives are used to extinguishing soda with vinegar or lemon juice before the moment when soda is added to the dough (in a spoon or glass). In this case, a violent reaction of carbon dioxide emission occurs, but this carbon dioxide loosens absolutely nothing, since the whole process takes place in a spoon. In this case, the first stage of loosening the dough has already been lost, and you have neutralized a certain amount of soda with acid, which is intended in the recipe for loosening the products.
Further, the dough will be loosened by the soda remaining after the reaction only at the second stage, when carbon dioxide will be released from it during the heating process. With the right approach, it should be ensured that the first stage of gas bubbles and loosening also occurs in the dough.
To do this, mix soda with dry dough ingredients, and acid with liquid ones, and then combine them immediately before baking in the dough. Also consider this point: if acidic products are present in the dough in sufficient quantities: sour cream, buttermilk, yogurt, lemon juice, then you do not need to add additional vinegar to the liquid components of the dough. Soda in such a test will be perfectly extinguished even without vinegar, and the product will turn out lush and airy.
Recipes with the ingredient wheat flour
Recipes with soda
Recipes with table vinegar ingredient 9%
- Wheat flour
- Soda
- Table vinegar 9%
- Bowl
How to extinguish soda step by step instructions with photos
Step 1
For work, we need soda, table vinegar, flour.
Step 2
Don't do that!!! Do not extinguish the soda with vinegar until it is added to the dough. This carbon dioxide release reaction must take place in the dough itself, not in the air above the dough.
Step 3
As an acidic medium that will extinguish the soda, you can use vinegar, citric acid, sour cream, yogurt, buttermilk, yogurt. It doesn't matter what you use as an acidic medium, it is important that the soda quench occurs in the dough.
Step 4
The soda itself should be thoroughly mixed with flour and other dry dough components.
Step 5
Vinegar (citric acid) is combined with the liquid components of the dough. And if the dough contains sour cream, yogurt, buttermilk, then there is no need to additionally add vinegar or citric acid to the dough.
Step 6
Just before baking, combine dry and wet ingredients and start baking immediately. Thanks to this, your products will turn out to be more magnificent, since you use two stages of gas bubbles to loosen the dough: when baking soda is combined with acid and when baking soda is heated during baking.