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 encompasses a range of processes through which microorganisms — yeasts, molds, bacteria — break down compounds in food to create alcohols, acids or alkalis, which in turn prevent the growth of harmful pathogens.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2023

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

Of Fermenting and Working of Beers and Ales, and the unwholesome        Practice of Beating in the Yeast, detected.

From The London and Country Brewer by Anonymous