On Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 12:41:38 PM UTC-5, dejamos wrote:
> On 6/4/2016 11:35 AM, wrote:
> > On Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 2:02:20 AM UTC-4, sf wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>> Are you guys confusing baking *powder*, which does wear out, with baking
> >>> *soda*, which should not?
> >>>
> >>> There are easy ways to test baking powder for potency; google around.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I am not confusing the two.
> >
> >
> > I didn't either. I know enough to keep baking powder sealed and in the freezer, but I thought I didn't have to be that careful with baking soda - and yes, that's all the recipe calls for.
> >
> >
> > Lenona.
> >
> I had a cake fail a few years ago and when I looked at the ingredients
> the only thing that looked like it *could* have been the culprit was the
> baking soda that had expired many years earlier. I bought fresh and
> remade the cake and it rose beautifully. Anecdotal, of course, but in
> my experience baking soda can eventually lose its oooomph.

Baking soda's "oomph" is it's alkalinity!

John Kuthe...