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Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is lye, which shouldn't be consumed. Pretzel salt is sodium chloride (NaCL).
by martey 5y ago
Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is lye, which shouldn't be consumed. Pretzel salt is sodium chloride (NaCL).
- kortex 5y agoNope, pretzels are made with lye (NaOH). That's how you get the tasty brown Maillard reaction coating - boil the dough in lye water, then bake, then salt it.
- skykooler 5y agoThough it doesn't have to be lye - you can use other less caustic bases, such as baking soda.
- theptip 5y agoSome traditional pretzel/bagel recipes use lye: https://www.bakespace.com/recipes/detail/Soft-Pretzels-using-lye/45579 https://www.bakespace.com/recipes/detail/Soft-Pretzels-using...
- mbernstein 5y agoLye is used in the creation of pretzels and bagels.
- CRConrad 5y agoIn German, I think their full name is Laugenbrezel. The full name may not be much used[1] colloquially, because it's implied -- but bread rolls made the same way are definitely called Laugenbrötchen. "Lauge" is German for "lye". They're called that because they're made with it. [1]: Though when I switched my phone keyboard to German just now to test it out, the predictive spelling corrector suggested "Laugenbrezel", not "-brötchen", when I'd got as far as "Laugenb".