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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gelatinize .
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Examples
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The fact that the stock gelatinizes when chilled makes skimming the schmaltz much easier, especially when it was a really fat chicken.
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The chicken fat rises to the top and is skimmed off after the stock has been reduced, chills in the fridge, and then gelatinizes.
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JOYCE: As for the starchy foods, like our turnip, cooking gelatinizes the tough starch granules and makes them easier to digest as well.
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The stock gelatinizes because the collagen proteins from the connective tissues in the chicken are cooked out of the chicken and into the stock.
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JOYCE: As for the starchy foods, like our turnip, cooking gelatinizes the tough starch granules and makes them easier to digest as well.
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But this batter is quickly cooked, the flour absorbs the water, the starch gelatinizes, and the mixture becomes stiff, more doughlike.
Ratio Michael Ruhlman 2009
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Actually, the bones contain much more of the connective tissue which, when subjected to a long slow moist cook at lower temps as in a braise, convert to collagen, which gelatinizes in the liquid, giving a much richer mouth feel.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Braised Boneless Short Ribs with Leeks and Mushrooms 2009
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Parboiling not only gelatinizes the starch in the grains, it also does the following:
Chapter 25 1996
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The hot water partially gelatinizes the starch so that the dough sticks together and can be rolled into sheets or squeezed into noodles.
Chapter 25 1996
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It gelatinizes on boiling with acid, and a fragment may be readily fused in the blowpipe flame, yielding a transparent globule.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various
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