How to Remember the Difference Between Baking Powder and Baking Soda
by Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to from Lifehacker on (#5FD7M)
Baking soda and baking powder are both chemical leavening agents that give height to baked goods through acid-base reactions that release carbon dioxide, but they do so in slightly different ways. To best understand how to use them, it helps to grasp what they are.