Effect in taste:
- If we use Baking soda instead of baking powder for making the cake, then after the baking process, the taste of the cake will be a little metallic bitter.
- Because baking soda as a base or alkaline ingredient has a naturally bitter taste, also when we heat baking soda /Sodium bicarbonate it will form Sodium carbonate, which will itself again make the cake bitter in taste.
- The reaction involved here is as follows,
Baking soda into Baking powder:
- To convert Baking soda into Baking powder we have to mix baking soda with tartaric acid and starch.
- Baking soda is much stronger than baking powder.
- So for making baking powder we have to use 1 part of baking soda and 2 parts of tartaric acid.
Role of tartaric acid:
- Use of baking soda while baking or making cake, makes the cake taste bitter due to the formation of Sodium carbonate during heating.
- Hence, to neutralize the formed sodium carbonate and its bitter taste, we use tartaric acid.
- As an acid tartaric acid neutralizes the base effect of Sodium bicarbonate.
Effect in taste:
- If we use Baking soda instead of baking powder for making the cake, then after the baking process, the taste of the cake will be a little metallic bitter.
- Because baking soda as a base or alkaline ingredient has a naturally bitter taste, also when we heat baking soda /Sodium bicarbonate it will form Sodium carbonate, which will itself again make the cake bitter in taste.
- The reaction involved here is as follows,
Baking soda into Baking powder:
- To convert Baking soda into Baking powder we have to mix baking soda with tartaric acid and starch.
- Baking soda is much stronger than baking powder.
- So for making baking powder we have to use 1 part of baking soda and 2 parts of tartaric acid.
Role of tartaric acid:
- Use of baking soda while baking or making cake, makes the cake taste bitter due to the formation of Sodium carbonate during heating.
- Hence, to neutralize the formed sodium carbonate and its bitter taste, we use tartaric acid.
- As an acid tartaric acid neutralizes the base effect of Sodium bicarbonate.