the scientific name of baking soda is sodium bicarbonate.
Baking soda is a combination of soda ash and other substances. Baking soda looks like sugar and is granular. Edible soda ash itself is a natural substance, so the shape of alkali is white powder. Therefore, we can say that baking soda is an upgraded version of edible alkali.
baking soda has no peculiar smell, and its main function is to relax food and make every part of food contact with more air. Therefore, baking bread requires baking soda to "refresh" the bread.
But in the process of making tofu, we can only use edible alkali, and only alkali can make the substances that have been mixed into water re-aggregate, and finally form tofu. However, in the process of tofu formation, if baking soda is used, it is impossible to have tofu in this life, because baking soda makes the substances in soybean milk looser, and the key to tofu formation is to change from the substances mixed in water to compactness.
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The function of baking soda:
1. Mildew-proof: Put baking soda powder into paper bags or boxes and put them in your own drawers or wardrobes, which can play a role in drying and preventing mildew.
2. Decontamination artifacts: cookers, pools, tiles, toilets, etc. can be decontaminated with baking soda powder.
3. Eliminate foreign bodies on the skin: If the skin on the hand or other parts is pricked, you can soak the pricked part with baking soda water, and the foreign bodies will disappear after two days.
4. Stop itching: Apply baking soda water or baking soda powder to the skin bitten by mosquitoes to quickly stop itching and prevent being bitten again.
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