Fermentation vs Cooking - What's the difference?
fermentation | cooking |
(biochemistry) Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide
A state of agitation or excitement; a ferment.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Charles Kingsley
(informal) In progress, happening.
The process of preparing food by using heat.
(by extension) The process of preparing food.
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, chapter=6 (by extension) The result of that process, a meal.
* I missed my mum's cooking while I was at university.
The style or genre of food preparation; cookery.
As nouns the difference between fermentation and cooking
is that fermentation is (biochemistry) any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide while cooking is the process of preparing food by using heat.As an adjective cooking is
(informal) in progress, happening.As a verb cooking is
.fermentation
English
Noun
(wikipedia fermentation) (en noun)- It puts the soul to fermentation and activity.
- a universal fermentation of human thought and faith
Derived terms
* alcoholic fermentation * malolactic fermentation * secondary fermentation ----cooking
English
Adjective
(-)- The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking .
Noun
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