Marinate vs Ferment - What's the difference?
marinate | ferment |
To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.
To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
* Alexander Pope
Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
* Rogers
* Walpole
A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
* Thomson
A catalyst.
As verbs the difference between marinate and ferment
is that marinate is to allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking while ferment is to react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.As a noun ferment is
something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.marinate
English
Verb
- You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first.
Anagrams
* ----ferment
English
Verb
(en verb)- Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.
Noun
(en noun)- Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
- The nation is in a ferment .
- Down to the lowest lees the ferment ran.