What is the difference between baking soda and food powder?
The full name of baking powder is "edible baking soda", which is shortened to baking powder by the catering industry in Guangdong and Hong Kong, probably to remind people to distinguish it from strong alkali (baking soda). The chemical name of food powder is sodium bicarbonate (bakingsoda), also known as baking soda, heavy alkali, sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate acid. It is a white crystalline powder made by absorbing carbon dioxide from sodium carbonate solution or crystalline sodium carbonate. When heated, the powder is broken down into carbon dioxide, water and sodium carbonate. As an edible alkali powder and alkaline bulking agent, it is widely used in cooking. It has the following roles: First, the role of softening fiber food powder has a weak corrosive, it can make the raw materials in the fibrous tissue denaturation, but also exclude the mucus between the muscle fibers, stimulating fiber up hair. Therefore, food powder can make the acidic beef to alkaline, so that the hydration layer of beef protein molecules thickening, at the same time, the carbon dioxide produced by the food powder, but also the expansion of beef fibers, which are conducive to the beef to absorb more water, thus making the texture of the old and tough beef to become soft and tender. Food powder for beef raw materials, such as shredded beef, beef slices, beef tenderloin, steak, etc., the general dosage of every 500 grams of beef to add 2 grams of food powder, marinade seasoning formula is: 6 grams of salt, 2 grams of food powder, 4 grams of meat loosening powder, 6 grams of cornstarch, 20 grams of salad oil. It should be noted that the food powder and meat powder need to be dissolved in water, and then mixed with beef, etc., mixing the process of adding salad oil, so that both color, but also the use of fats and oils and food powder alkaline formation of saponification reaction to eliminate ...... (This article *** counts 1 page) [Continue reading this article]