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the starches
noun
A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
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It is made by washing wheat flour with water until the starches dissolve.
To make beer, the grain gets cracked to expose the starches.
(It takes a few weeks in cold storage for the starches to turn to sugar).
Then you mash the grist, adding hot water and stirring until the starches turn to sugar.
This helps bind the starches and fat, and creates that famous, creamy texture.
That's when the enzymes are doing their work of converting the starches in that purple corn".
Tonight the network is throwing a "little party" to celebrate the host's tenure; hold the starches!
"Cooking opens up the starches and lets them out into the liquid to give it richness and thickness," he said.
The higher the heat at which the starches are cooked, the greater the level of acrylamide in the food.
It is then steeped in warm water, where the starches start to break down into simple sugars, which become alcohol.
The starches were cross-linked with sodium trimetaphosphate and/or hydroxypropylated with propylene oxide.
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