You've no idea how much baking powder is in self-raising. Whereas if you mix your own, you do. Proper chefs just use plain flower and add whatever additives they need.
It's the same as recipes that call for unsalted butter plus salt, rather than just salted butter.
Originally Posted by burton07: “I don't even use baking powder. I use Cream of Tartar and Bicarb”
Pah. I make my own bicarb by bubbling ammonia gas through a saturated aqueous solution of sodium chloride under a fume hood. And then I precipitate it out of solution using carbon dioxide before filtering and drying it.
Originally Posted by njp: “Pah. I make my own bicarb by bubbling ammonia gas through a saturated aqueous solution of sodium chloride under a fume hood. And then I precipitate it out of solution using carbon dioxide before filtering and drying it.
Originally Posted by njp: “Pah. I make my own bicarb by bubbling ammonia gas through a saturated aqueous solution of sodium chloride under a fume hood. And then I precipitate it out of solution using carbon dioxide before filtering and drying it.
I always start my own planet by creating a cosmic storm and then develop grasses from algae so that I can make wheat by evolving the grasses over millennia.
Originally Posted by burton07: “I always start my own planet by creating a cosmic storm and then develop grasses from algae so that I can make wheat by evolving the grasses over millennia.”
What a convenience culture we live in.
I always start prior to a big bang event when all the matter in the cosmos exists in a form smaller than a subatomic particle.