This article is written like tale. The guy never did it by himself. All what he wrote he assumed may be happen, but have no prove.
Failures in formulas also present like the acetic acid, it is propionic acid.
The only reaction what takes place is 2 NaHCO3 => Na2CO3 + H2O + CO2
This also happen if you bake cake.
NaCl will not touched. If it would, then you have hydrochloric in your cake.