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Was :clot' the word that sounded unappetising? Would coagulum have sounded better?
What word would you have used for the stage where the eggs and milk have been warmed
in water bath, until it is no longer liquid, but must not be left there too long?


Doesn't anybody use the word "curdled"? To me that describes the breakdown of a previously-homogenous mixture into an unpleasant conglomeration of liquid and yucky clumps.




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You know, you're all standing around, and wwh starts to tell you an apparently innocuous little cooking anecdote--and: Poof! There's ol' et' passed out cold again 'cuz wwh done gone and put one too many coagulants into the concoction.



actually, it's only when it comes to food that I am that squeamish...

curdled is good, though to me it implies that it has gone bad?



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Can't make cheese without first causing milk to curdle.


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(And it's disliked by interns because so seldom does anyone find a satisfactory explanation for its occurrence. It's sort of the modern version of "swooning.")


It's no great pleasure for the patient either, as I can say from experience. But I think swooning implies a reaction to some sort of emotional shock, while fainting or syncope just happens.

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It's no great pleasure for the patient either


Here here! I've been suffering from this for a couple of days now, not fainting as in losing consciousness but being quite dizzy no comments from the peanut gallery if you please. It feels like I've been on nitrous oxide for days with occasional half second flicks into a different dimension. No, not fun atall.


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