What happens if we add baking powder to an acid?
Things Required:
2 half-filled glasses sour milk or orange or lemon juice
1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder
1/2 teaspoonful of baking soda
Directions:
Add baking powder to one of the half-filled glasses of sour milk and baking soda to the other glass.
This Is What Happens:
The sour milk with the baking powder does not bubble as much as the one with the baking soda.
Science Behind It:
When you add baking powder to an acid, you are tampering with the balance of acid and alkali. You are adding more acid than alkali. The result is that you actually reduce the amount of carbon dioxide produced.
Therefore, if you want to bake with sour milk or buttermilk instead of regular milk, you could do it by eliminating the extra acid. You would just replace each teaspoonful of baking powder in the recipe with 1/2 teaspoonful of baking soda.
