How do you keep baking soda?

[Anonymous]

I keep a well-stocked kitchen, so that I generally only need to buy fresh ingredients every week. But the one staple I haven't figured out is baking soda. I buy it for a recipe, use the 2 tsp or whatever, and then put it in the fridge. But its purpose in the fridge is to absorb odors, right? So can I still use it again a few weeks/months later? Or am I supposed to keep an extra baking soda in a hermetically-sealed odor-free environment somewhere and just use that one for baking? (Kidding, my house doesn't have a hermetically-sealed odor-free environment.) How do you keep baking soda, and how long do you keep it?

[Anonymous]

In the pantry, for years.

[Anonymous]

I have a tin of baking soda in the pantry for baking, a giant sack in the laundry room for laundry and cleaning, and one of those boxes with flow-through side panels in the fridge for odor absorption.

[Anonymous]

I get one box and cut off the top to put in the fridge. I get another small container and open the top the normal way (so the top can flip open and flip closed) and put that in a ziploc bag in the spice cabinet. Doesn't need to be hermetically sealed, just sealed enough not to absorb odors and a ziploc bag is sufficient.

[Anonymous]

I think it was trader joes that sells baking soda in the same style container as baking powder. I prefer it for measuring when I bake, and the plastic lid keeps the moisture/odor out.

I also have baking soda in the laundry room and a box meant just for odor absorption in the fridge.

[Anonymous]

Keep it in the pantry. Not in the fridge

[Anonymous]

Keep it in the pantry or wherever you keep your flour, sugar, cornstarch, etc. you can keep another box in your fridge if you have an odor problem. I thought only my mom did that though. Some people also brush their teeth with it after toothpaste.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the pantry, for years.

Me too.

[Anonymous]

Don't use the fridge odor absorbing one for baking! Separate one in the pantry in a ziplok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it was trader joes that sells baking soda in the same style container as baking powder. I prefer it for measuring when I bake, and the plastic lid keeps the moisture/odor out.

I also have baking soda in the laundry room and a box meant just for odor absorption in the fridge.

Yes, this! Trader Joe's sells both baking powder and soda in resealable containers! I keep both in the pantry. Don't use your fridge odor absorbing baking soda for baking - yuck!