What are the magical cleaning uses of edible alkali?

Alkali is a commonly used food additive with many uses. Among them, alkali can be added to ferment bread when making it to make the bread taste better. Edible alkali is generally obtained from industrial production. Therefore, people can use it in large quantities and can also use it in aspects other than diet. Let’s take a look at the cleaning uses of edible alkali. I hope everyone can understand it.

During the process of dough rising, microorganisms will generate acid, and the dough will become sour after rising. Edible alkali (carbonate) must be added to react with the acid in order to make delicious pasta.

Edible alkali can neutralize the organic acids or sulfides that adhere to dark green vegetables due to excessive spraying of pesticides, thereby preserving the original color of the vegetables and removing the contamination of the vegetables by pesticides.

Edible alkali has a strong degreasing effect and can remove excess oil from oil-soaked dry food ingredients.

Edible alkali can release the niacin in corn that is difficult to release, so that people who eat corn for a long time will not suffer from pellagra due to the lack of niacin in corn.

Pour the dried broad beans into a bowl, add an appropriate amount of alkali, pour in boiling water and simmer for 15 minutes. After soaking, the skin can be easily peeled off.

White towels will turn yellow and hard after being used for a long time, making them very uncomfortable to use. You can put the towel in a pot or basin, add some water, sprinkle in a handful of alkaline noodles, and boil it for a few minutes. When the water is no longer hot, rub the towel a few times and then rinse it with hot water. In this way, the yellow stains on the towel are basically eliminated and it becomes much softer.

Smoke stains on fabrics can be removed by first brushing them with 50℃ glycerin, and then rubbing them with alkaline water.

Before frying the pork skin, soak the raw pork skin in hot alkaline water, then use a scraper or a hard brush to remove the oil on the pork skin, rinse it with warm water, and then air-dry or sun-dry the pork skin. When frying, first put cold oil in the pot. When the oil is heated to 20% to 30% hot, put the pork skin in. The pork skin will curl up by itself due to the heat. When white bubbles appear, take it out and cool it slightly. After the oil temperature rises, put the pork skin back into the pot and fry it until it bubbles and expands, then take it out. The pork skin fried in this way will have a soft texture and delicious taste after cooking.