Charlotte with apples - recipe with soda. How to extinguish baking soda

Soda is widely used in cooking and confectionery. Usually it is used when baking bread, pies, pies, donuts, etc. On food packaging, it is designated by the international index E-500 (sodium carbonate) or E-500i (sodium bicarbonate). The E-500ii index indicates that sodium bicarbonate has been used in this food product.

Do housewives use baking soda in their kitchens? Of course yes. But, oddly enough, many novice cooks do not understand why it is necessary to extinguish soda with vinegar when baking?

Dispelling the myths

Many people consider all supplements with E indices unsafe for health. However, this is not the case at all. Markings with the letter E mean various nutritional supplements, including the most ordinary ones. As, for example, in the case of soda. Strictly dosed soda will not bring harm to health, and in certain dough products it is simply necessary.

To extinguish or not to extinguish?

Baking soda acts as a leavening agent. But by itself, it is not able to loosen the dough. Therefore, it is quenched with vinegar.

The airy texture of baked goods is given by gases that are released when sodium bicarbonate reacts with an acid, usually acetic acid.

Otherwise, quick soda will not give any effect. So you definitely need to extinguish the soda.

How to extinguish soda?

Many housewives, out of habit, quench soda in a spoon, where they send a little vinegar. And after the sodium bicarbonate gave a violent reaction, the resulting mixture is combined with the dough. This method is fundamentally wrong, since the dough with such a “baking powder” will no longer become magnificent: valuable gases simply disappear ahead of time.

That is why these two components should be placed in a dough separately:

baking soda mixed with flour
vinegar is poured into the liquid ingredients of the dough (water, milk, eggs, etc.)

When kneading, the soda molecules “meet” the molecules of acetic acid in the dough and release carbon dioxide, which “works” loosens its structure.

The dough mixed with slaked vinegar must be kneaded and used very quickly so that the gases do not have time to escape.

What can replace vinegar?

If you use lemon juice instead of vinegar, the effect will be the same. But in addition to getting a lush muffin, you will also give the dough a flavor and lemon flavor.

When using kefir, curdled milk, whey and other fermented milk ingredients for kneading dough, vinegar can be omitted: these products contain enough acid to react with soda.

How much to extinguish soda: follow the recipe

Soda should be added strictly according to the recipe. If you reduce its amount, you will not get a magnificent dough.
More than necessary, the amount of soda will spoil the baking: it will be bitter or give off an unpleasant aftertaste, characteristic of sodium bicarbonate. In addition, an excess of soda in baking harms the gastrointestinal tract and liver.

Other baking powder

On sale you can find ready-made baking powder. These powdered mixtures are a combination of baking soda, crystalline acid and starch in certain proportions.

Due to the presence of acid in baking powder, they do not need to be quenched with vinegar. Just mix the powder with flour and knead the dough.

By volume, baking powder usually requires twice as much as baking soda.

An article was recently published on RBC: "Getting rid of debt: how to pay off loans ahead of schedule". In it, well-known and respected financial advisers give recommendations on what to pay attention to when paying off your obligations to banks ahead of schedule. This is really professional and helpful advice.

But here's the question - is it necessary to pay off the loan ahead of schedule?

Maybe it is better to set aside this money as a deposit or send it to other investment instruments? And pay off the loan in its own way, according to the schedule?

Let's say you have some free money. You received a bonus or other additional income. Or spent less than usual. In this case, the desire to close the loan ahead of schedule seems natural and reasonable.

We usually proceed from the following considerations. Firstly, there is a danger that if we do not repay the loan now, then we will simply spend this money. And the debt will not decrease, and we will lose money - it's a shame! Secondly, the interest on a loan is always higher than on a deposit. So why overpay?

It is difficult to argue with such considerations, they are correct. But not the only ones.

Let's look at this question more broadly.

Imagine that finance is an object separate from us, an integral system that we manage. In my previous articles, I also showed, using the example of a vessel with a liquid, what finances consist of and how they work.

And now the third question: what are they doing? What functions does this object perform for us? Why do we need money?

Finance is such a thing that we will inevitably manage, whether we like it or not, and throughout our lives. And in order to make a good, optimal, reasonable financial decision at the right time (for example, whether or not to pay off the loan ahead of schedule), the answers to these questions must be clear and specific.

Let's draw this picture - a pentagon or, better, a star:

1. At the top of the star - "Current Life". This function is responsible for meeting our current needs, both material and spiritual: housing, food, entertainment, health, personal growth, etc. Everything we spend money on now and in the short term. We all know this function well, we see it clearly, we make sure that it is performed as best as possible. No wonder she is at the top.

The side beams spread out to the sides are responsible for "confidence in the future."

2. On the left - "Protection against risks". Our finances are able to protect us from unforeseen and negative situations (risks) associated with additional spending of money or loss of income. For example, this happens in the case of an illness that requires money for treatment, a car accident, dismissal from work or non-payment of wages, etc. Such situations are always possible, no matter how hard we try to prevent them. The only question is whether we have the financial resources to compensate for the losses from such events.

3. Right - "Planning goals." This function allows dreams to be embodied in specific plans, and then into reality. And vice versa - " when there is no money for plans, they become a dream».

At the base of this star are two functions: "Financial independence" and "Inheritance". They give our financial system stability in the long term and, I dare say, some global, almost philosophical meaning.

4. "Financial independence" - the ability to stop earning money by your work and live on capital income. Financial independence is more commonly referred to as "retirement", although it can be achieved earlier or later than the official retirement age.

5. "Inheritance" - what we leave behind our children.

And now the bad news: these functions - all five - our finances perform in any case, whether we like it or not, think about it or prefer not to think about it. Moreover, all these functions are connected with each other and influence each other, each - on all the others.

But there are two good news:

1) it depends only on us exactly how, to what extent each of the five functions will be performed. We are always able to find such a "balance of interests" in which all these functions are performed not by themselves, i.e. uncontrollably, but the way we decided. Given our capabilities and personal priorities, of course;

2) it is not at all necessary that, taking care of one function, we degrade another. For example, by forming a reserve fund and thereby improving Risk Protection, we simultaneously improve Financial Independence and Legacy. Unless, of course, this reserve fund will remain safe and sound over time, and we will not have to spend it for its intended purpose. What I sincerely wish for everyone.

Now we can return to the issue of early repayment of the loan. In what cases should this be done?

Firstly, if the credit burden is so great that the current life becomes simply unbearable, and, in addition, there is a risk of delinquency on the loan, and hence an avalanche-like increase in debt obligations. Then, of course, it is worth throwing all your strength into reducing your debts.

Another situation is directly opposite to the first. Everything is fine with you, you have reached a balance of interests across all the rays of the star:

current life is at an acceptable level for you;
a sufficient reserve fund has been formed and insurances that you consider appropriate have been purchased;
plans are being implemented to achieve financial goals;
operates a long-term capital accumulation program, which is designed to ensure financial independence in the future.

And do you still have money? Then pay off the loan, and there is nothing to think about.

All other, intermediate situations need to be considered and prioritized. For example, if you do not have a reserve fund at all, and you are not protected in any way from possible unforeseen expenses, then it would be extremely unreasonable to send "extra" money for early repayment of the loan. "Protection against risks" at the same time will remain at the level "below the plinth".

The formation of a reserve fund is a top priority. Carry money to a reliable bank, open a deposit and do not touch it, except in those very unforeseen cases. The fact that the interest on this deposit will be less than what you spend on the interest on the loan is just a payment for the fact that the reserve fund was not formed earlier. Quite a reasonable fee. Sometime you have to start!

For other functions, the situation is similar, although not so obvious. By repaying the loan ahead of schedule, we only facilitate the fulfillment of the “Current Life” function, and in no way affect the “Goal Planning” and “Financial Independence”. Considerations like “the sooner I repay the loan, the sooner I start saving” are most often an excuse or an illusion - when the credit burden weakens, most of the released money goes “into the sand”, i.e. for the current life.

So, when deciding whether to send money for early repayment of a loan or not, you should think not only about the difference in interest rates, but look for a “balance of interests” in all five functions. Then the solution will be complete and systemic.

It's better not to go into debt at all.

Read more about this and more in my book.

The peak of popularity of sodium bicarbonate for home purposes came in the Soviet years. Folks have used it as a cheap and angry heartburn cure and an all-purpose cleaner. Years passed, and soda, slaked with boiling water, began to come into fashion again. What it gives the body and whether it benefits at all, you will learn from this article.

Sodium bicarbonate: useful properties

Sodium bicarbonate is widely used in many sectors of the national economy:

The first place in terms of its consumption is occupied by the culinary and food industries. Both ordinary soda and various kinds of powders based on it can be used. The proportion of the use of the substance must be carefully calibrated, otherwise the food will have an unpleasant aftertaste;
At the enterprises of the chemical-forestry complex, this compound is used for the manufacture of dyes, foamed plastics, household chemicals, fire extinguishing agents and various kinds of reagents;
In the shoe business, soda is indispensable for giving the skin plastic properties, increasing wear resistance and strength;
In textile industries, alkali is used in the manufacture of cotton fabrics;
Medical use is also very wide: first aid for burns, a disinfectant, a frequent component of medicines.

The use of soda for household needs is no less extensive.

Why drink soda filled with boiling water?

The list of ailments in which an alkaline solution helps is quite large:

Improvement in the condition of the throat during colds and bronchitis;
Relief of pain from heartburn with gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers;
Part of complex therapy for the splitting of stones in the kidneys and urinary tract;
Decreased acidity of the blood fluid.

For outdoor use NaHCO3 also will not be superfluous:

In summer, this solution is indispensable: after all, it is he who helps to eliminate pain and redness from mosquito bites;
Removal of symptoms of inflammation of the mucous membrane of the eye;
Part of the complex treatment of mycoses on the arms and legs;
The cosmetic use of soda baths for limbs is quite popular. In this way, rough skin leaves;
Finally, this is perhaps the cheapest way to give your teeth a "Hollywood" whiteness.

non-compliance admission rules sodium bicarbonate can go sideways even for a healthy body. That's why worth checking out with them before starting self-treatment.

Rules for the use of sodium bicarbonate

The greatest beneficial effect from the use of soda can be achieved by observing these rules:

Drink a teaspoon of baking soda mixed with 200 ml of water daily on an empty stomach. After eating, such a measure can only do harm, since the acidic environment in the stomach will be suppressed;
The temperature of the "drink" should be optimal (not higher than 45 degrees). Too cold or hot solution can have a negative effect;
The optimal chronological framework is one hour before and one hour after a meal;
Duration of admission should not be too long (no more than a week). Otherwise, dangerous changes can occur in the body;
As a safe option, you can practice periodic intake (once every seven days) throughout your life.

Whether or not to start a treatment course, you can find out in a fairly simple way:

How to extinguish soda with boiling water?

During the reaction, which is called soda quenching, air bubbles are formed, which are very much appreciated in the culinary business. It turns out a baking powder, thanks to which the taste and plastic qualities of the dough are improved.

The transformation can be caused by exposure to such substances:

Table vinegar (both 7% and 9% are suitable). Substances are combined in a ratio of 1: 2 in favor of soda;
Lemon acid. The powder is mixed in the same proportions as in the case of vinegar;
Freshly squeezed lemon juice;
Dairy products.

Some avoid frequent use of acid. The pungent odor and harmful effects when it comes into contact with the skin force many housewives to resort to the simplest and at the same time common method of extinguishing this alkali.

To do this, just bring the kettle to a boil and pour boiling water into a vessel with soda. The reaction will be no less active than when using substances with a low pH level.

The volume of soda depends on the purpose of quenching:

With a course daily intake for prevention, a third of a teaspoon per glass is enough;
To get rid of heartburn, you already need a teaspoon.

Soda diet: what is it?

A new weight loss method based on the well-known white powder of sodium bicarbonate is gaining popularity on the Internet.

According to the followers of this new trend:

The use of a solution of ½ teaspoon of the substance per glass reduces the desire to eat. Thus, the size of the portion eaten will be significantly less than without the use of this remedy;
Fat deposits are burned;
Removal of harmful substances from the body;
Acceleration of metabolism helps to quickly get rid of already eaten food;
General strengthening effect on the immune system due to the acceleration of hemoglobin saturation with oxygen.

The solution can only be taken orally by people with an absolutely healthy gastrointestinal tract. The diet should be preceded by a trip to a specialist who should explain to the patient all the pros and cons of soda weight loss.

However, it is better not to risk your health, even if it is in order. Soda baths are an alternative solution.

In order to have a beautiful smile, quickly lose weight, strengthen the body's defense system, there is no need to spend money on expensive drugs. Indeed, literally in every home there is a universal remedy - soda, slaked with boiling water. What it gives the body is not enough to tell the whole book. We have revealed only a small part of its wonderful qualities.

Video about the benefits of slaked soda

In this video, the therapist Dmitry Strizhov will talk about the treatment with ordinary soda, how to take it correctly, whether it is worth quenching the substance with boiling water:

Today I received a comment on one of my posts, which served as an excuse not to delay writing an article, the idea of which has been tormenting me for quite some time.

Short:

Scoop up baking soda with a spoon and slowly pour vinegar onto the spoon. Soda will "extinguish" - hiss and dissolve. Don't overdo the vinegar.

Long:

- Tell me, pliz, how to properly extinguish soda, what percentage should be vinegar, can it be apple? How much baking soda and how much vinegar should I take? And how to understand that the soda is extinguished?

- I take 9% vinegar, I'm sure that apple is also possible. Soda should be taken as much as it is written in the recipe. Most often - this is one teaspoon (without a slide). Holding a spoon with soda in your hand, you begin to pour it slowly with vinegar, all this will foam. When you see that there is no more soda left on the spoon, it means everything is extinguished)) It seems to me that about 2-3 tablespoons of vinegar are spent on a spoonful of soda, but this is so, by eye))

- Thanks for the answer, but 70% concentrated vinegar cannot be extinguished?

- I think it's too strong. Vinegar essence is still not a joke, to be honest, I am afraid of it and do not buy it. Try diluting 70% vinegar to make 9%

- That's for sure, but I still advise pouring soda into a small glass and pouring vinegar already there.

- Yes, you can even 70%, only you need to just a little bit and interfere with the tip of a knife - everything will be extinguished! Recently, I have adapted to apple quenching - it is wonderfully quenched.

- but I still advise pouring soda into a small glass and pouring vinegar already
- I also extinguish in a small glass, because. vinegar still pours out of the spoon before it has time to extinguish the soda, and in a glass, mix everything at once and it turns out very conveniently.

- “It seems to me that about 2-3 tablespoons of vinegar go to a spoonful of soda, but it’s true, by eye))”
This is an obvious overkill.

For 1 teaspoon of soda, half a teaspoon of vinegar or even less is enough. We take table vinegar, for example, 9%.
You can take apple cider vinegar, wine vinegar, you can extinguish soda by squeezing a little lemon juice on it.

If the recipe requires, for example, one teaspoon of soda, take this teaspoon of soda (without a slide), carefully pour it into a tablespoon, pour a little vinegar into it, and without waiting for the soda to finish bubbling to the end, mix in this bubbling- sizzling mass into the dough.

Soda is not extinguished if sour cream, kefir, sour milk are used to prepare the dough.

And of course, soda should not be confused with baking powder (baking powder). They are different in composition. The baking powder is not quenched.

- In fact, it seems to me that even if you take 2 tablespoons of vinegar, then nothing terrible will happen. Or maybe I take less - the eye is such a thing, it can lie)))

Showdown: whether to extinguish soda with vinegar and why at all? Pros and cons

Extinguishing soda with vinegar- pros and cons. Why extinguish soda when baking and is it worth it, how to extinguish soda correctly - with vinegar, boiling water, kefir or something else.

I decided to try to answer this rather sharp question, the controversy around which tirelessly flares up again and again, namely: Why put out baking soda and is it worth it? And why is this question still haunting so many?

The question "to extinguish or not quench baking soda with vinegar"is as eternal as the question: "what came first - the chicken or the egg." However, after delving into the literature, interrupting a bunch of sites, including foreign ones, I came to the conclusion that this issue is from the strength of 70-80 years, read almost as long as our country exists after the October Revolution. Perhaps I was looking badly, perhaps not there, but the lack of information led me to these conclusions.

Breaking through a great many recipes of old Russian cuisine, I did not find a single one where soda was mentioned. Previously, pastries in our country were mostly yeast-based, or without the addition of any rise and loosening accelerators at all.

So, baking soda was invented by the French chemist Leblanc at the end of the 18th century. This invention came to Russia much later, after a new method of its manufacture was obtained. As soon as Russian housewives had such a product as soda, they began to apply and use it in cooking by trial and error. Why was it decided to extinguish the soda? Yes, simply because our tradition of eating everything “hot, hot” in this case is only harmful.

The fact is that quick soda in hot baking has a very unpleasant “soapy” taste. What was “corrected” by extinguishing it, namely, adding boiling water or fermented milk products to soda. For pancakes, this method still gives very good results. However, imagine what will happen to your shortcrust pastry if you pour a glass of boiling water into it? The answer is obvious. Therefore, it was invented to replace boiling water or fermented milk products with diluted 9% vinegar or lemon juice.

Now let's go in order:

Why do you need to add soda or other baking powder to baking?

- baking soda, when exposed to high temperature or an acidic environment, gives an enhanced reaction to release carbon dioxide, which in turn leads to splendor and porosity.

Is baking soda a baking powder?

- No. By itself, baking soda is not a baking powder. In order for the process of loosening (the release of carbon dioxide), soda needs two components: an acidic environment and high temperature. Important note: let's not delve into chemistry, and consider only the aspect that is necessary for cooking, so we will not take into account fair remarks that only one of the components is enough to release carbon dioxide due to soda.

Why is vinegar used to extinguish soda?

From illiteracy, or from laziness, or out of habit. Baking powder was not sold in the USSR, which is why they wrote about extinguishing soda with vinegar, and they still write, and I will not adapt it to baking powder either, so as not to confuse and scare away my visitors. Culinary illiteracy played its almost main role - soda needs acid, and instead of introducing something sour into the composition - honey, sour cream, and so on - vinegar was poured and poured. “And what does honey have to do with it, is it sour?” - you ask. I explain: do not confuse sweet with the pH reaction: “Honey has an acid reaction pH = 3.26-4.36”, which is what we need.

By the way, many foods give an acidic reaction, such as eggs, but it is usually not enough.

Do I need to extinguish the soda?

- No. How, in this case, to knead the dough correctly? Ideally, you need to mix soda with dry baking ingredients, and mix acid (in the form of sour cream, kefir, honey, lemon juice, etc.) with liquid ones. Then quickly knead the dough, combining both mixtures, and then bake.

- If it makes you feel calmer, you can extinguish it. But the benefit of "quenching" will be minimal. The fact is that we “extinguish” incorrectly - pour soda into a teaspoon, and drip vinegar or lemon juice into it. Why is it wrong? All the necessary reaction to release carbon dioxide goes in this case into the void, into the air, instead of getting into the dough. Therefore, if you decide to use slaked soda, do not wait until all the bubbles that appeared during extinguishing disappear, immediately pour into the dough. And the excess that did not have time to react with vinegar and give you that long-awaited splendor and porosity.

Why, if you do not extinguish soda with vinegar, does an unpleasant taste remain?

Firstly, in cooled baking - the taste can be either minimal or completely absent.
Secondly It's all about the exact dosage. I have never seen a hostess who, with electronic scales to the gram, weighs every product that goes into baking. Yes, and the recipes themselves ALL sin with “approximacy”, they are made by eye. Imagine, for example, a large apple that is meant by a Ukrainian hostess, or a resident of Sverdlovsk. Their concept of big will be very different. As for modern recipes, the amount of soda in them is incredibly large (everything is calculated on the fact that they still want to pay off the soda)

The problem of distinguishing between appropriate and inappropriate in relation to civil cults and rituals. When the Apostle says, “Honor everyone, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king” (1 Peter 2:17), what does he mean? Where is the line between the reverence that belongs to everyone in general - and especially the king - and the worship that belongs only to God? More specifically, can a Christian, for example, lay flowers at an eternal fire lit in memory of fallen soldiers?

One can pose the question more broadly - what should be the attitude of a Christian to the so-called "civil religion", a set of norms and rituals in which society and the state demonstrate their identity, their commitment to common roots, proclaim the attitude to certain events in history, which is proposed as a norm?

In this regard, different reactions are possible - for example, Jehovah's Witnesses flatly renounce the "oath of allegiance" in the United States and similar civil rites in other countries, the playing of the national anthem and other expressions of loyalty to the state. On the other hand, one can see examples of the practical dissolution of Christianity in the "civil religion", when appeals to Christianity are, in fact, of an official nature, and religion is perceived as a means that is designed to strengthen citizens' devotion to their public and patriotic duty.

An extreme example of this is the "German Christians" in National Socialist Germany, when loyalty to the state required, in fact, apostasy. Much less dramatic, but still sad, examples can be seen in the history of Europe during the First World War, when the clergy in all warring countries considered it their duty to encourage the corresponding "Christ-loving armies" and call on them God's blessing. Of very recent examples of "patriotic Christianity" there is no need to go into detail.

Intuitively, we feel that there is something deeply wrong in both extremes, but let's try to define the criteria for this wrongness. What does Scripture forbid us? Idolatry, that is, “the worship and service of the creature instead of the Creator” (Rom. 1:25).

Do the rituals of the "civil religion" have the character of such worship? In some cases, definitely yes. This happened, for example, in totalitarian states that demanded absolute, undivided loyalty, which was supposed to surpass any other loyalty - in particular, family or religious.

Such states sought either to eradicate all worship of God, or to reduce religion to a purely service position in relation to the state. Citizens were charged with the obligation to inform even their closest relatives when the interests of the state required it. The state, as a rule, in such cases, personified in the leader, has the absolute right to determine what is good and what is bad, and what is the duty of the people.

To participate in civic rites that proclaim this kind of absolute and, in fact, religious allegiance to the state is really inappropriate for a Christian.

It is possible to refuse to participate in civil rituals in the case when this can cause divisions and temptations. Here it is difficult to proclaim general rules, and in each case Christians should exercise discretion.

You should also refuse to participate in them when they involve the assertion of obvious immorality or the proclamation of views that are incompatible with the Christian faith.

Does the laying of flowers at the eternal fire imply the worship of some "creature instead of the Creator"? The proclamation of the nation or the state, or the leader as the highest value, deserving absolute devotion? Obviously not. This is a manifestation of respect and gratitude towards the fallen soldiers, nothing more. Is there something immoral in such reverence?

If, say, veneration was given to villains for some villainous deeds - for example, to the Bolsheviks for their actions during the civil war - it would be wrong, but there is nothing immoral to see in the veneration of the soldiers who saved the peoples of our country from genocide, full or partial. impossible.

Let us now turn to the form of this veneration - namely, the eternal fire. Is there anything in this form that is unacceptable for a Christian? First of all, I would note the difference between the message and the language in which it can be expressed. You can pray or preach the gospel, or express love and respect for people, or comfort the suffering in Russian, German, English or Chinese, within the framework of one or another symbolic system; in Europe the color of mourning is black, in China it is white. The question of what symbols you use when communicating with people is secondary to your intention - what exactly you want to say to people.

In the USSR, it so happened that the eternal flame is perceived precisely as a sign of eternal memory, eternal reverence and gratitude to the soldiers who fell to save the peoples of our country from Nazism. One could say that in Scripture and Tradition the image of fire is ambiguous - we can recall, for example, the "fiery tongues" of the Holy Spirit - but in this case this is simply not relevant.

Eternal fire exists not in the church, but in a completely external, secular coordinate system, where it means not the fire of hell, and not the fire of the Holy Spirit, but the eternal grateful memory of the fallen. Trying to read the characters of one language in the context of another is to make ridiculous mistakes. In English, hell is hell, and in German it is “bright”, Polish “freak” means “beauty”, and so on.

A lot of funny (or, on the contrary, dangerous) situations arise when people in a foreign culture use habitual patterns of behavior or gestures that are perceived by local residents in a completely different way. "Christian interpretation" of the eternal flame of monuments by asking "what eternal flame means in our dictionary" is the same mistake as trying to look up the meaning of an English word in a German dictionary.

A monument with an eternal flame was not created in a religious context, and is not perceived in such a context now. The desire to extinguish this fire will be perceived - in the same secular context - unambiguously as a desire to stop honoring the fallen.

Of course, we may find the veneration of the fallen in the war excessive, artificial, false, designed to stir up militaristic sentiments, and so on. - but this, we note, will be a political position, a position to which we will have the right, but precisely a political one, and not a religious one. Arguments from the religious sphere have nothing to do with it.

If we talk about the actual religious aspect of the eternal fire on the monuments, then there is no such aspect in the fire itself, it is a secular symbol, it simply does not mean anything religious at all, but the veneration of the fallen is a morally correct thing.