Sodium Hydroxide - Pure - Food Grade (Caustic Soda, Lye) (1 Pound Jar)

Got this for making pretzels. I wanted to make the pretzels the Bavarian way so I ordered this. I would just recommend wearing some nitrile gloves to be safe.Easy to use and did what I needed.

Good quality food grade lye for cold-process soap. I will buy again. Good value for the money.

I’ve used this to make soap. It works great.

A pretzel, especially a soft pretzel, gets its deep dark exterior by a short soak in a high pH bath. Though sodium bicarbonate or sodium carbonate would work, sodium hydroxide works best.I use 40g of this food grade sodium hydroxide in 1,000g (1L) of water (1M solution) in a plastic container. Wearing plastic gloves I carefully give each fully risen soft pretzel a 30 second soak before placing on a parchment lined baking tray and baking. They come out beautifully browned and crusty on the exterior and soft and chewy inside.This product comes in a sturdy plastic bottle that is non-reactive and is air tight. If exposed to the air for any length of time solid sodium hydroxide will absorb carbon dioxide and convert to sodium carbonate. This has not been an issue so far with this product.Finally, its physical form is such that as a free flowing granules, it dissolves easily and completely.

Fantastic for homemade pretzels

Works as advertised. Unfortunately, the bottle is large and I was hoping it would last me at least 2 years or so. However, as other have warned, this product has a self-life and appears to gradually diminish in potency no matter how well you store it. I was careful to keep my sealed well and stored in a cool, dark place. Yet, it still got weaker. By my estimate, it weakens to about 65% of what it was after a year.

Great for making small batches of soap!

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