It's usually not carried in supermarkets, except Indian ones; try home brewing or soap/cosmetics making supplies vendors on the web.

By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I'd say it's a good thing to add to pickles if you have no lemon juice or chips for that salt and vinegar flavor.Sour salts and the use of sour salts first caught my attention after reading an article in Bon Appetite Magazine about how the chef at State Bird Provisions was using sour salts to brighten up dishes, and make use of an ingredients that would otherwise not get used. A salt substance derived from acidic citrus fruits, such as lemon and limes, that is dried and formed into a powder or crystal. I bought this to use in homemade sourdough bread just for a little extra tang as my sourdough starter is only about a week and a half old. I put it on my list of things to blog about, but never got around to it–it has been almost a year since I read that article! Citric Acid can be used in place of lemon juice and has the same effect as lemons in preventing fresh fruit from browning.

Turkish Spices, which enable you to make a difference to the most popular dishes of our cuisine and to discover new tastes in the most practical way, with its varieties not limited to traditional favorites, is waiting to be discovered by everyone with its quality products that give intense aroma even in small quantities. A tiny bit of these crystals (you don’t need much) does the trick to awaken recipes and enhance flavor.But I started looking online for ways to game the system, and stumbled upon citric acid (sour salt). Broadway, agrees: ''Normal green tea should be made with hot, not boiling, water, 180 degrees or above (water boils at 212 degrees),'' he says. Even a bag of sweets can be a complex melange of flavours – usually including fruity or sour flavours. Are there different concentrations, and are the sour salt crystals of a different concentration than the citric acid? Google is telling me I can use this stuff to clean my coffee maker, add to kimchi, or make homemade cheeses (which is probably well out of my league!