What’s the difference between baking soda and baking powder?
What do you do?
Baking Soda vs Baking Powder
Baking soda (a.k.a.
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sodium bicarbonate) and baking powder are both leaveners used in baking, but they are chemically different.
The easiest way to explain it is that baking soda is abaseit’s alkaline.
Remember those experiments we did as kids, adding vinegar to baking soda to watch the eruption of bubbles?
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), but unless it is balanced with an acidic ingredient, the resulting taste may be metallic.
What is Double Acting Baking Powder?
How Long Do Baking Soda and Baking Powder Last?
It depends on storage conditions.
Baking soda can last quite a long time if stored sealed in a cool, dry space.
Baking powder, however, is problematic.
It can last 3 months, or it can last a year.
Simple Tip!
Just see to it your baking powder is still effective and not past its use-by date.
You’ll also need much less baking soda as it is 3 times as powerful as baking powder.
You’ll also need about 1 teaspoon of vinegar or lemon juice for every 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda.
You’ll also want to add 2 teaspoons of vinegar or lemon juice to your batter.
