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1 day ago

Ditch The Fryer: Make Wings Just As Crispy In The Oven - Tasting Table

Tossing wings with baking powder raises skin pH, accelerating Maillard browning to produce crispy, crunchy oven-baked wings comparable to deep frying.
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4 months ago

Here's What Happens If You Forget The Baking Powder In Your Cake - Tasting Table

When it makes contact with liquid and then heated, baking powder produces carbon dioxide gas and the gas forms bubbles that get trapped in the batter's structure. As the cake bakes, the bubbles expand, causing the cake to rise and become airy. Without baking powder, the batter relies only on mechanical aeration (beating, whisking eggs, creaming butter/sugar), which is not enough to give the same height and softness unless the recipe was designed as a foam cake.
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