I was trying to bake some meringue and playing with aquafaba, but I tend cook chickpeas myself and store them dried otherwise. But aquafaba-based recipes usually assume you buy precooked chickpeas in a glass.

Then I found this article, which explores how to cook chickpeas so the cooking water can be used for aquafaba recipes.

  • pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Lovely, thank you! I’m in the same boat, I cook my chickpeas myself and never managed to get the same results as with canned chickpeas.

    Turns out it’s a bit more involved than just having the right ratio of water to chickpeas (according to the article).

  • dracs@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    I’ve never tried to make it from soaking my own chickpeas. But reducing down there aquafaba from canned chickpeas definitely feels key to getting a good whip out of it.