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Definition: BLANCHING |
BLANCHINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Blanch |
Date "BLANCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
Crosswords: BLANCHING |
| English words defined with "BLANCHING": blanching agent ♦ Etiolation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BLANCHING": ALMOND BLANCHER, HAND, ALMOND-BLANCHER OPERATOR ♦ blanching-machine operator ♦ PEANUT BLANCHER ♦ SEPARATOR OPERATOR, SHELLFISH MEATS, SUPERVISOR, NUT PROCESSING. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Cantonese cooking, this technique is used extensively with food that can be ruined by overcooking. Examples include greens, live shrimp, squid, cuttlefish, and some noodles.
Blanching is also often used before preserving food by canning or freezing, to quickly stop enzyme activity that would degrade the flavor or structure of the food item. Similarly, blanching can be used to lock in a bright color of some vegetables (like broccoli) before cooking using another technique, like stir frying. Blanching can also loosen the skin of some fruits and vegetables (like tomatoes) to ease in peeling them.
Method: Bring a gallon of water to boiling point for every pound of vegetables. Insert vegetables contained in a steamer or basket for a minute until the water begins to boil again. Remove vegetables.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blanching."
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Screenplays | I'm blanching the butter. (The Tao of Steve; writing credit: Duncan North; Greer Goodman) | |
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 | Building their own freezing facilities inside their lab, ARS scientists experimented with every step in the process, from selection of the variety grown to harvesting, handling, blanching, freezing, packaging, storing, and transporting products to market. What these scientists learned helped immeasurably to ensure the survival and growth of the U.S. frozen food industry. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Cabbage coming from blanching chamber. Regional agricultural research laboratory, Albany, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "BLANCHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "BLANCHING" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "BLANCHING": blanching agent. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BLANCHING": self-blanching. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blanching vegetable | 19 |
blanching | 17 |
blanching corn | 7 |
blanching pea | 4 |
bean blanching green | 3 |
blanching potato | 3 |
blanching freezing vegetable | 2 |
asparagus blanching | 2 |
blanching carrot | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BLANCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 变白 (Blanched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | blegning (bleaching, etiolation), etiolering (etiolation, whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bleken (blanch, bleach, bleaching, dealbation, etiolation, fading, whiten), verbleken (bleaching, fade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | etioloituminen (etiolation, whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | blanchiment (blanch, bleaching), blanchement (bleaching), décoloration (bleaching, surface blush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erbleichend, bleichend (bleaching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λεύκανση (bleaching, dealbation, fading, laundering, white specks, whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "בחל" (ripening of fruit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scolorimento (etiolation, fading, whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 漂白 (bleaching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひょうはく (bleaching, confession, drifting about, expression, roaming, wandering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 희게함. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anchingblay descoloração (bleaching, dealbation, decoloration, discoloration, discolored, discolouration, fading, surface blush). (various references) albire (bleach, bleachers, bleaching, greying, grizzling, whitening). (various references) blanqueo (bleach, bleaching, etiolation, whitening), decoloración (bleaching, dealbation, decolorization, discoloration, discolouration, fading). (various references) blekning (bleaching, discoloration, etiolation, fading, whitening), etiolering (etiolation, whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"BLANCHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Banchini, Bianchhi, Bianchini. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-g-h-i-l-n-n" | |
-2 letters: baching, cabling, lancing. | |
-3 letters: aching, baling, baning, blanch, caning, haling, lacing. | |
-4 letters: acing, algin, align, bhang, binal, blain, cabin, chain, chang, china, clang, cling, laich, laigh, liang, ligan, linac, linga. | |
-5 letters: agin, anil, bach, bail, bang, bani, blah, blin, cain, chia, chin, clag, clan, gain, glia, glib, hail, hang, hila, inch, laic, lain, lang. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 41 4E 43 48 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. .- -. -.-. .... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L A N C H I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 0041 004E 0043 0048 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)364635483742434841 |
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