Home to do steamed bread are to use lye, lye is not only edible, but also can deal with many small problems in life, can be said to have many uses. The following by me for you to introduce the efficacy of edible lye and small wonderful use, I hope to help you.

1. As the saying goes, "Salt is bone, alkali is tendon? When you add the right amount of salt and edible alkali to the dough, you can enhance the strength of the dough, improve the physical properties of the gluten, the texture will become dense, enhance the elasticity and strength. Make the dough not easy to break when extending or expanding. After the dough is tightly organized, the color of the finished product will appear white.

2. Edible alkali can neutralize the organic acids or sulfides that stick to dark green vegetables due to the overspray of pesticides, thus preserving the original color of the vegetables and removing the contamination of pesticides on the vegetables.

3. Edible alkali has a strong degreasing effect, can remove the excess oil on the raw materials of the oil hair dry goods.

1. Now most of the vegetables have pesticides, we can usually wash vegetables with a little edible alkali, which can remove pesticide residues on vegetables.

2. Fabric stains on the mold, scrub with light alkaline water, can be removed.

3. Smoke stains on the fabric, you can first use 5O ℃ glycerin brushing, and then scrub with alkaline water, can be removed.

4. White towels used for a long time, will be yellowed and hardened, very uncomfortable to use. You can put the towel into the pot or basin, add some water, sprinkle a handful of lye, boil for a few minutes. When the water is not hot, the towel gently a few times, and then rinse with hot water. In this way, the yellow stains of the towel is basically eliminated, and also much softer.

5, fabric plaster stains, you can put alkali powder on the stain, add a little warm water, gently a few times to remove.

6, put the scallop into the 80 ℃ hot lye water for 10 seconds, immediately fished into the cold water, and then brush or run your hand, you can quickly remove its powdered scales.

7, before frying meat skin, you can first put the raw meat skin soaked in hot alkaline water, and then use a scraper or hard brush to remove the oil on the skin, rinse it with warm water, and then dry the skin or dry it in the sun. Frying, first put cold oil in the pot, when the oil burned to two or three percent hot, put the skin into the meat, the skin rolled up by itself, to be white bubbles when the fish out a little cooler, the oil temperature rises, and then the skin into the pot back to the frying, to the expansion of foaming fish out. This fried meat skin, and then cooked, soft texture, delicious flavor.

8, cleaning and processing of pork intestines, pork belly and other water, add the right amount of salt and alkali, can remove the odor.

9, stewed lamb, put some alkali, it will be easy to stew.

10, remove the grease on the kitchen screen, you can put the screen in hot alkaline water (or hot alkaline water wet), and then repeatedly scrubbed with a cloth that is not easy to hair, and then rinse the screen with clean hot water, the screen will be clean as the first time.　　11. Aluminum pots and pans and hot water bottles shells have accumulated dirt, can be dipped in alkali a little scrubbing.

12. Dilute the edible alkali with water, put the eggs into the soak and take out, the eggs can keep a long time not bad.

Difference between cooking soda and baking soda

Cooking soda

1. Cooking soda appearance color

Cooking soda its appearance into a solid, the appearance of the color of pure white, and easily soluble in water, we are in the life of the common cooking soda bags of white fine powder. Edible soda in the food category, does not belong to the flavor of a kind, but as a loosening agent used.

2. How to use edible soda

The use of edible soda is extremely simple, and its main can make the dry food expansion or soften the fiber components, can effectively remove the acidic taste. Therefore, in life, edible alkali is often used by us to the production of various pasta. Such as steamed buns, rolls and so on, all need to use edible alkali.

Baking soda

1. The appearance of the color of baking soda

The appearance of the color of baking soda is also white, but its body is a fine crystal, similar to the feeling of salt. Baking soda decomposes and melts in hot water at 50°C. It is mainly weakly alkaline. It is mainly weakly alkaline, and is often used in the fermentation of food.

2. How to use baking soda

Unlike soda, baking soda doesn't need to be dissolved in water, it just needs to be put into the flour you want to ferment and then stirred with water. Pasta made with baking soda often has an alkaline flavor, mainly because baking soda is alkaline.