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This chicken egg has been soaked in vinegar for a few days and has become translucent and flexible. Anatomy of a chicken egg. The bird egg is a fertilized gamete (or, in the case of some birds, such as chickens, possibly unfertilized) located on the yolk surface and surrounded by albumen, or egg white. The albumen in turn is surrounded by two ...
Vinegar is known as an effective cleaner of stainless steel and glass. Malt vinegar sprinkled onto crumpled newspaper is a traditional, and still-popular, method of cleaning grease-smeared windows and mirrors in the United Kingdom. [53] Vinegar can be used for polishing copper, brass, bronze or silver.
Eggs contain multiple proteins that gel at different temperatures within the yolk and the white, and the temperature determines the gelling time. Egg yolk becomes a gel, or solidifies, between 61 and 70 °C (142 and 158 °F). Egg white gels at different temperatures: 60 to 73 °C (140 to 163 °F).
A chicken egg contains some egg white that may disperse into the poaching liquid and cook into an undesirable foam. To prevent this, the egg can be strained before cooking to remove the thinner component of the egg white. [2] A small amount of vinegar may also be added to the water, as its acidic qualities accelerate poaching. [3]
The acetic acid in vinegar is what provides most of the health benefits, and all types of vinegar used for cooking contain about the same amount of acetic acid, Johnston says.
Turbatrix aceti (vinegar eels, vinegar nematode, Anguillula aceti) are free-living nematodes that feed on a microbial culture called mother of vinegar (used to create vinegar) and may be found in unfiltered vinegar. They were discovered by Pierre Borel in 1656. [1]
In 1992, it became the title for a set of workshops held in Erice, Italy (originally titled "Science and Gastronomy") [4] that brought together scientists and professional cooks for discussions about the science behind traditional cooking preparations. Eventually, the shortened term "molecular gastronomy" became the name of the approach, based ...
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