What Does Curdle Mean?

In cookery, curdling is the breaking of an emulsion or colloid into large parts of different composition through the physico-chemical processes of flocculation, creaming, and coalescence.

What does it mean to curdle milk?

Now, milk is composed of several compounds, primarily fat, protein, and sugar. ... This is what happens when milk curdles. When pH levels drop in milk, it turns acidic and milk protein (casein and others) molecules attract one another to form "curdles" or lumps. These lumps then float on the surface of the solution.

What does it mean when something curdles?

1 : to form curds also : to congeal as if by forming curds a scream curdled in her throat. 2 : to go bad or wrong : spoil. transitive verb. 1 : to cause curds to form in curdled milk. 2 : spoil, sour.

Alexander Ross

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