Food alkali can remove the sour taste of dough. Appropriate use can bring excellent color, aroma, taste and shape to food to increase people's appetite. Edible alkali has a similar effect on gluten as table salt. It can converge gluten and give the dough unique toughness, elasticity and smoothness, but its extensibility is worse than that of salt water dough. It can also make the steamed buns puffy and white, but don't add too much, otherwise the steamed buns will turn yellow or crack, and the taste will become bitter.

Extended information

Alkaline water noodles are made by adding alkaline water to the noodles when making noodles. Appropriate alkali can make the powder absorb water and achieve good viscoelasticity when it is decomposed by heat. Alkaline water also has antiseptic effects and neutralizes acidity.

Method

1. Put 1 teaspoon of edible alkali into a bowl, add a little warm water and dissolve it

2. Put 500g of flour in a clean basin< /p>

3. Pour in the dissolved alkaline water, then add 185g of clean water and mix well with chopsticks

4. Form a harder dough (no need to knead it smooth, the dough is very hard) It will not be smooth even if kneaded)

5. Use the 1st gear of the dough press to press it into dough

6. Repeat the pressing several times

7. Then use the 4th gear or Use the 5th gear to press out smooth dough

8. Then press out round noodles and sprinkle some dry powder to prevent sticking

Efficacy

Alkaline noodles are edible alkali. The main ingredient is sodium carbonate, which is used to neutralize excess acidity in traditional dough fermentation. This process is called "alkali making." It can also be used to remove pesticide residues from vegetables: Because most organophosphorus pesticides can quickly decompose in an alkaline environment, soaking in alkaline water is one of the effective methods to remove pesticide residues from vegetables.

Add 5 to 10 grams of edible alkali into 500 ml of water to prepare alkaline water. Put the vegetables after preliminary washing into the alkaline water. Add enough alkaline water according to the amount of vegetables and soak for 5 to 10 minutes. Then rinse the vegetables with clean water.

Reference materials

Alkaline water noodles_Baidu Encyclopedia