is corn flour the same as corn starch?

Corn starch is the UK English way of saying cornflour. I've been cooking for years and when I'm reading an English recipe that calls for corn starch I just use cornflour.

What you call corn flour in England, we in the US call corn starch.

"Called corn starch in the USA.

Called cornflour in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries, except in Canada, where it is also known as corn starch. Not to be confused with cornmeal."

~https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cor...

What I'd think of as corn flour, just ground up corn, is usually called corn meal. We don't use the term corn flour here in the US. Usually it's corn meal or corn starch. So, for your recipe, corn flour should be used.

What we call corn flour in England is in fact almost 100% starch so I presume they are the same.

Corn flour is not corn starch. Corn starch is only one component of corn. Mostly the worst part. LOL Corn flour ground a lot finer. Corn meal is much coarser . Most corn meal I believe has the whole grain. Corn flour doesn't.

Corn flour is not corn starch. Corn flour is ground-up corn. Corn starch is just the starch contained in the corn (i.e. a component of the corn).

Corn starch IS corn flour. It is used as a thickening agent: it makes sauces, dough, and liquid-ish type things in general thicker.

All I know about making "bath bombs" is that you also add Bicarbonate of Soda to make them fizz when they get wet.

Chris.

No. corn starch is used for thickening. Corn flour is different, it will not work.

I think so, yes.

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