Additives for Beginners in Baking

       Delicate desserts🍥 have become a must-have for everyone's life. Eating desserts can usually stimulate the secretion of dopamine, which can bring a good mood. Many people are not only satisfied with the taste, but also willing to bake by themselves. Therefore, home baking is the future development trend.

The most important thing in baking is the recipe. To make bread🍞, you need to use baking high-gluten flour, not regular flour. High-gluten flour is used for bread, and low-gluten flour is used for cakes and cookies. All-purpose flour is made into pancakes, dumplings, noodles, and steamed buns.

So let's take a look at what additives are commonly used in baking:

①Baking powder, a white powder, can be bought in general supermarkets.

②Soda powder is also a kind of white powder. Its ingredient is sodium bicarbonate. The aqueous solution is weakly alkaline. It will start to decompose when the temperature is above 65 degrees, and carbon dioxide will be released.

③Cream of tartar, an acidic white powder, the main component is potassium tartrate. When making cakes, it is used to neutralize the alkalinity of egg🥚 whites, help eggs foam and beat, and make cakes whiter.

④Vanilla extract is a pure natural additive that increases the fragrance.

⑤Cake oil is a kind of cake bubble emulsifier, which is mostly used to make sponge cakes, and also used to make some biscuits.

⑥Yeast, pure biological leavening agent.Food grade Sodium acid pyrophosphate is the acidic component of the leavening agent commonly used in the baking industry.In the process of reproduction, the yeast will release a large amount of carbon dioxide gas, thereby achieving the effect of expanding the dough. Moreover, when the yeast is fermented, substances such as alcohol and lactic acid will be produced. These substances will generate esters with aroma at high temperature, so that the baked West Point has a unique flavor and aroma. Yeast is generally necessary to make bread.

These are the most commonly used additives in the baking process, do you know it?👆

 

 

How to Decorate a Christmas Tree with Colored Glass Microspheres

Although many people do not know what glass microspheres are, it cannot be denied that the amount of this product is used. Have we also seen the existence of glass microspheres on some decorative items?

Christmas is getting closer and closer to us. When it comes to Christmas, the first thing that comes to mind is the Christmas tree🎄. Small apples🍎, small bells🔔, small pine cones🎍, small snowflakes, bows, Christmas stockings and other ornaments are all Christmas tree decorations we have seen.

In addition to the above decorations, we will also be attracted by the sparkling stars above some Christmas trees. Yes, that's thanks to the colored glass microspheres. If you decorate with some glass microspheres, it will make the Christmas tree more shiny under the lights at night, giving the tree a more mysterious feeling and adding a festive atmosphere.

Colored glass microspheres can also be used as the exterior decoration of artificial fruits, artificial flowers and other handicrafts, etc. Colored glass microspheres can also effectively improve the self-cleaning, anti-fouling, moisture-proof and other capabilities of roads. Glass beads for road marking can effectively improve the retro-reflection and other properties of road coatings, thereby effectively improving the safety index of drivers driving at night. With the development and progress of society, colored glass microspheres are also constantly improving and updating.

The application of glass microspheres does not stop there. In life, the application of glass microspheres can be seen everywhere. We mainly describe the role it plays in decoration, which is not inferior to other decorative materials.