ADD moment leads to emergency baking question!!!!!

[amedia]

I need to post a response to all the very kind people who replied to my last post, and I will - but right now, I have a very time-sensitive question!

Y'all know I have been tending sourdough starter and tonight I actually mixed the batter and I have four loaves baking even as we speak. However... while I was out buying ingredients I bought a new box of baking soda and I also bought a box of kitty litter deodorizer of the same brand in a very similar box.

I think you can guess what happened.

There's no poison warning on the box or on the Arm & Hammer website, and it only went into two of the loaves before I realized the mistake; unfortunately I can't tell which two. TODS thinks we should just bake them all, taste them, and throw out the two yucky-tasting ones - if indeed they even taste yucky.

Advice? Suggestions?

ETA: I did wind up throwing them out, although it was hard to resist keikokin's suggestion of testing them on a student.

Comments

[pocketwitch.livejournal.com]

I think TODS's suggestion sounds solid, since there's no poison warning. Does the deodorizer box have any sort of ingredients list? Do we know what actually went into those loaves?

[amedia.livejournal.com]

There's no ingredients list, but I found an epinions review of the product that says it's mostly baking soda (and therefore vastly overpriced). Arm & Hammer's website says that it's "96% odor-fighting ingredients including genuine ARM & HAMMER® Baking Soda as well as a specially formulated moisture-activated fragrance." It also has stuff to keep it flowing & not caking, but so does just about everything, so I'm not gonna worry.

There was half a teaspoon in that batch - that's a quarter-teaspoon in each loaf. So I'm hoping it winds up being a non-issue.

Thanks for the response!

[maubast.livejournal.com]

I would throw them all away. Sorry.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the prompt response - much appreciated!

[maubast.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

[keikokin.livejournal.com]

*ROTFLMAO* Wow, its true the stuff in TEXAS is stronger! LOL. Wait until I tell the Map Bitch. OMG honey! I would think that two of them would smell perfume-like. WOW. HOnestly though, I think that anyone could do it. Surely there's some student who needs a higher grade that could test it? MWAHAHAHAHA

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Surely there's some student who needs a higher grade that could test it? MWAHAHAHAHA

ROFLMAO!!!!! What an awesome suggestion!!!!!

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I'm with maubast: I'd throw them all away and start over. Sorry.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

BION, I'm still trying to decide...

[cyanocorax.livejournal.com]

So what happened!?! Inquiring minds want to know the end of the story.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Well, all four loaves are currently sitting in my refrigerator wrapped in foil.

I licked the spoon before I realized what was in the batter, and I haven't turned green or exploded yet.

The thing is, I had a couple of pieces of this bread as made by my friend who is an *excellent* cook... and I didn't actually like it all that much. I just hate throwing it out when so much time and effort and vanilla pudding went into it.