DK Weight Knitting Yarn & Wool. DK weight (double knit) is the most popular of all yarn weights - perfect for sweaters, pullovers and cardigans, accessories, kidswear and homeware. Usually knit on 4.00mm needles (from 3.75mm - 4.50mm depending on your personal tension) DK yarn is sometimes known as 8-ply or Light Worsted.
As a food additive, dipotassium phosphate is used in imitation dairy creamers, dry powder beverages, mineral supplements, and starter cultures. It is used in non-dairy creamers to prevent coagulation.
Specific foods processed with sodium hydroxide include: 1  The Norwegian dish known as lutefisk (from lutfisk, lye fish). 2  Hominy is dried maize (corn) kernels reconstituted by soaking in lye-water. 3  Sodium hydroxide is also the chemical that causes gelling of egg whites in the production of Century eggs.