Roy wrote:
> Hello Dave,
> Hmmn I am not sure...if you can get this food grade chemical OTC. But
> give it a try<g>.
> But I hope you won't mind for a correction; acid sodium pyrophosphate
> had a double reaction, first it reacts during the dough stage or
> preparation and further on the oven side( baking process).
> The number after the SAPP signifies roughly the reaction rate;
> You should be aware of such numbers as some suppliers/retailers got
> mixed up with it.
> The commonly used baking powder grade is an average speed material; not
> too slow and not too fast, that is SAPP 28, if the number goes higher
> say 36 that is moderately fast and good only for cake donuts.Meanwhile
> the slower SAPP22 and below are for frozen dough application.

Thank you very much for those details! I had never run into different
"grades" of SAPP, while searching for it.
When you first mentioned SAPP 28, I thought the number may have
represented by-weight percent of the final product!

Small quantities (1 kg or less) seem to be the problem. I ran acros a
Chinese supplier that had a picture of a nice, small bag, probably on
the order of 1 kilo. The accompanying text suggested they could supply
up to 1000 metric tonnes... Gigagrams I don't need!

> . I know a well known supplier,in which I bought tons of my
> chemical leavening acids for my production of bakery prepared mixes
> several years back.
> It is Budenheim of Germany They have all the kinds of phosphates being
> used in chemical leavening industry as well as food stabilizers.
> Ewrc.
> http://www.cfb-budenheim.de/dbw/public_cfb/Homepage/$frameset/Start
> Previously ....
> I bought from that supplier ton quantities of monocalcium phosphate
> monohydrate, three different classes of acidic SAPP; namely SAPP
> 22,SAPP 28 and SAPP 36-40, dicalcum phosphate, sodium aluminum
> phosphate., disodium phosphate and tetrasodium pyrophosphate In my
> experience with Budenheim they suppled the lowest priced material with
> the same specification as the higher prices products from Stauffer
> Chemicals, Monsanto,Albright Wilson.
> These are my supplier for sodium bicarbonate
> http://www.brunnermond.com/whatfor/AppsFood.pdf
> http://www.ahperformance.com/index.asp
> The cheapest SAPP baking powder grade is from Korea and China.
> If you want to buy a bottle of it say a kilogram quantity you should
> try contacting those suppliers if they want to retail. Because IIRC,
> the smallest quantity that I bought from them for pilot scale product
> development trials was a 25 kg bag.
> By the way these technical papers ( previously )r on tortilla
> leavening agents which might be of interest to the people here which
> was in my file and these is the link for the scientifically minded
> TORTILLEROS<grin>
> http://www.aaccnet.org/cerealchemist...s/1215-02R.pdf
> http://www.innophos.com/PDF/AACC%20Tortilla%20Paper.pdf
>
> Roy
>