Baking sodium bicarb

[oneradtek202]

So i need to bake a bunch of sodium bicarb, whats the temp and how long? i think 300 for an hour. but i also wanna know, should i bake it on a sheet of parchment paper so prevent it from mixing in with the olive oil and other crud possibly on the cookie sheet?

 

[alphaferret]

yeah 300 for one hour sounds like what I have read. Maybe put tin foil down or buy a new disposable pan just for this purpose.

 

[flamron]

Use aluminum foil. When it is done cooking, roll the foil up around the baking soda (close one end) and make a pourable funnel out of it. Way easier than trying to scoop baking soda up with a spoon. Plus, if you do this right out of the oven, hot baking soda dissolves a lot easier than scooping it off of the pan - as it has time to cool while it is on the pan.

then you can either pitch the aluminum foil or reuse it if you are careful.

 

[flamron]

Also - you can't overcook it, so go with 350 for an hour just to be sure you "cook" all of it (not really an issue, but better safe than sorry).

 

[cardiffgiant]

I did 400 for 2 hours last time. The stuff doesn't seem to burn. I did mine spread out in a large glass corning ware pan, so cookie sheet grease wasn't an issue.

I like the idea of using the foil, and then making a funnel out of the foil when you're dine. I'll try that next time.

I did under cook it once, and it didn't dissolve well. This resulted in a baking soda sludge causing a clog in my 2 part tube... then resulted in me coming home from travel to find both a mess and low Alk.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

should i bake it on a sheet of parchment paper so prevent it from mixing in with the olive oil and other crud possibly on the cookie sheet?

try washing the dishes

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I did 400 for 2 hours last time. The stuff doesn't seem to burn. I did under cook it once, and it didn't dissolve well.

don't ever bake me a birthday cake :celeb1:

 

[cardiffgiant]

haha, nice! You'd be safe with a cheese cake. I'm a very good cook, and do the majority of the cooking in our family. But I usually draw the line at baking.

Literally, the only things that I bake a cheesecake once a year for my wifes birthday, home made mac n cheese, and the alkalinity part for my two part.

 

[oneradtek202]

first batch came out good i guess, it still clumped up in the bottom of my jug like sodium carb, and kinda felt and looked different. so im on to the next batch, this ones like an inch deep hope it still works!

 

[flamron]

I pour mine into a coolaid pitcher and stir the batch while pouring. This eliminates any settling on the bottom. I fill the gallon pitcher about 2/3 full, then just pour the baking soda in slowly. Once it has all dissolved, I stop stirring and then pour into my container.

Otherwise, you end up with clumps of baking soda that take forever to dissolve. :uzi:

 

[aww_419]

If you heat the water a bit before adding the soda and add the soda when its warm it dissolved pretty easy.

MMMMM Ill be over for some of that homemade mac ben!!! Oh my birthday is tomorrow 420 baby!! how about one of those cakes too? yummm

Hey flamron what kind of blenny is that? I just picked up the same kind. Everytime i come downstairs hell be all the way out of his den and back right into when he sees me. Hell keep his head out sometimes but when I break out the camera hes gone again. I cant get a pic of him to save my life. He has bright red and pink lines and spots all over and they look like they may be raised slightly. Hes a beauty.

 

[flamron]

That was my pink spot goby - great personality. I really wish I could have kept him when I moved.

 

[aww_419]

LOL i thought it was a goby. Definitly sold to me as a pink spotted blenny tho. lol I just noticed today that he has bright blue spots all over his body too. Hopefully hell warm up to us soon

 

[museumguy]

Just make sure it isn't a convection oven like the one I used here at the museum. The food court staff could have killed me... :0 I ended up wiping that oven down for hours.

 

[tmz]

The longer and hotter you bake it the more H you will drive out leaving a larger proportion of CO3(carbonate) vs HCO3( bicarbonate). Typically the proportion of carbonate to bicarbonate in sea water at ph 8.2 is 110ppm bicarbonate to 20ppm carbonate. When you add baking soda,baked or unbaked, to the tank , it will even out at the 5.5 bicarbonate to 1 carbonate ratio.The more carbonate vs bicarbonate you add the more H you draw off raisng ph. The rise can be significant so be careful. Dosing it without baking might on the other hand caus e only a small decrease in ph.