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Cooking is chemistry, but too often we overlook one of its most powerful tools: pH. Yet pH is at play in so many of the foods we cook. We use acidic ingredients like tangy yogurt or buttermilk in ...

The secret to better flavor and texture? Playing with pH. Every food has a pH: a measure of its acidity or alkalinity on a scale from zero (very acidic) to 14 (very alkaline). Shifting that balance by ...