fermenting

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Fermenting pickle slices was challenging: When the bacteria eat the soft inside of the cucumber, the result can be a “mushy” chip.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

Fermenting yeast cells, the kind that resemble cancer, contained roughly 50 percent fewer deuterium atoms on average than the normal yeast cells, a startling change.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2024

Fermenting foods at home might seem daunting when food is something that comes from the store with a regulatory guarantee.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2024

Fermenting vegetable matter — it was believed a temperature of between 67 and 75 degrees was most conducive to creating malaria — generated “carbonic acid gas.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2022

Fermenting liquors, it is well known, abound with fixed air.

From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph