Baking Soda and Its Never-ending Uses

by Luis

Baking soda’s most recognizable form is in a little orange box. This unimposing product is present even in households where no one ever cooks — frequently stored in the back of the fridge to ward off nasty smells.
But its uses are seemingly never-ending, and some are much more remarkable.

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Food-related uses

. Fluff up an omelet are fluffier when you add a half-teaspoon of baking soda for every three eggs you crack.

. Use as a Beano substitute. Parboiling dried beans? Add a half-teaspoon soda per 2 cups of soaked beans, and you’ll have fewer intestinal woes.

Green up the greens . When washing spinach or other greens, add a sprinkle of bicarb to the final rinse water. They’ll hold their green color better during cooking, according to Tipnut

. Health and first aid

Stop the pain of bee and wasp stings. A baking soda paste helps soothe the discomfort of bee or wasp stings.

Cool sunburn. Add bicarb to the bath if you or someone you love is dealing with sunburn, poison ivy, a lot of mosquito bites or diaper rash. Moisturize afterward, since soda is drying.

Relieve indigestion . A little soda water has long been a traditional treatment for heartburn, sour stomach or acid indigestion

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Leida R on May 03, 2016
Yes! Baking soda, sure is a home must have.

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Elaine Freimuth on May 04, 2016
It is great stuff!

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