I’ve always wondered if baking soda stored in a fridge for this purpose should not be used for cooking and baking thereafter.
I always assumed that that was the case. Yuk!
Yeah that new flavor in your food would be everything.
Makes me wonder if this could be used intentionally, as in a recipe that calls for baking soda left next to certain aromatic ingredients to infuse it with flavor.
Wonka riches await, just need to human-traffic some Oompa Loompas.
Definitely not.
There's a Simpson's episode where Homer consumes some and goes into a hallucinogenic trip overdosing on the flavor of a thousand foodstuffs.
So caution would be advised.
It can be re-used for cleaning if you must.
Citation needed. This sounds interesting, though!
How to do this?
Stick a box of Arm & Hammer in your central air ducts.
How does the air get into the box?
They make A&H boxes that are designed to have sections torn off to let air through but not spill the baking soda.
It is why a small box of baking soda has a pull-off side revealing a permeable membrane. You put it in the refrigerator to absorb odors, aka volatile organic compounds. Baking soda is alkaline, so it neutralizes acids. As most volatile organic compounds form acids in water, they are essentially absorbed by the baking soda in a moist environment.