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No - the recipe called for Sodium bicarbonate.Did you convert it to sodium carbonate first ?
No - the recipe called for Sodium bicarbonate.Did you convert it to sodium carbonate first ?
Using baking soda did remove the pericarp. I then dried the kernels and had some hominy - didn't look great. I haven't tried to eat any since it is so easy to get a gigantic can from the store at a fairly inexpensive price and I dry whatever I don't use. This works well though I have discovered the dried hominy will pick up an off/rancid flavor with time - the last batch I did was vacuum-sealed and frozen in the hopes it would taste better.I tried it once and failed, I've also failed at making pretzels with baking soda.
Baking soda has a PH of 9 that's the same as dawn dish soap. Dawn won't take the hide off your hands let alone the pericarp off a corn kernel.
The first time I tried converting baking soda sodium carbonate for pretzels it failed too. The second time I took the baking soda straight from the hot oven to the boiling water. and achieved a PH of just over 11. The pretzels were a success this time. They also tasted like they were done with lye and not baking soda.
I haven't tried making hominy since though, but, the baking soda needs to be converted to sodium carbonate in the oven first to raise the PH if you are going to have any success at all.
Odd regarding the rancid taste. My boiled in ashes dried hominy probably doesn't much older than 2 -3 years but I've never experienced an off taste. I use it most often in Haudenesaunee corn soup and a mixed bean soup with smoked sausage. Very tasty.Using baking soda did remove the pericarp. I then dried the kernels and had some hominy - didn't look great. I haven't tried to eat any since it is so easy to get a gigantic can from the store at a fairly inexpensive price and I dry whatever I don't use. This works well though I have discovered the dried hominy will pick up an off/rancid flavor with time - the last batch I did was vacuum-sealed and frozen in the hopes it would taste better.
What is truly odd is that the first batch of hominy I dried (about half of a large can) didn't get this rancid flavor but subsequent batches did. I stored the dried hominy in a tin or a cloth bag and neither made any difference.Odd regarding the rancid taste. My boiled in ashes dried hominy probably doesn't much older than 2 -3 years but I've never experienced an off taste. I use it most often in Haudenesaunee corn soup and a mixed bean soup with smoked sausage. Very tasty.
It’s why earth orbit space stations are in low orbit, 110-200 miles. Beyond that they get in to the hot zone. Their edge varies but over by a couple of thousand miles. However this too is a hot zone. Space isn’t as bad as the van allen belts but still astronauts on the way to moon or mars when ships are exposed to the full fury of the sun.You're right, the Van Allen belt. I was under the impression though that the International space station is below the Van Allen belt as well as all of the shuttle flights.
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