Baking soda, known for being white.

Famous for becoming cookies.

Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why baking alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host, Katie Golden.

Katie, what is your relationship to or opinion of baking soda?

That baking soda and vinegar volcano we all made.

Remember that?

Yes.

That was great.

I love building a volcano and putting baking soda and vinegar in it.

And then pretending that all the little townspeople are getting rolled over by hot magma and pyroclastic flow.

It influenced your future move to Italy, land of Pompeii.

Folks, nobody does it better.

Yeah, yeah.

No, I like baking soda.

I like to bake.

I have had some problems baking here in Italy because it's interesting. So baking

soda does definitely, you can buy it here. It's used often in cleaning, though. It's really

interesting. You don't often find it in the baking section. What you do find is this thing called

Leah Vito, which is like, it's a mixture of, I think,

baking soda and something else.

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