Ferment
noun
The process of breaking down sugar to make alcohol by yeast, bacteria, or other microorganisms.
The ferment happens when yeast is added to the mixture.
Often appears as...
- yeast ferment
- natural ferment
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Technical
verb
To cause or undergo fermentation.
The juice is left to ferment in barrels for several months.
Often appears as...
- ferment juice
- ferment for months
noun
A state of great excitement or turbulence.
The whole city was in a ferment after the election results were announced.
Often appears as...
- in a ferment
- cause ferment
verb
To incite or stir up (trouble or disorder).
He was accused of fermenting political unrest.
Often appears as...
- ferment trouble
- ferment disorder
noun
The process of breaking down sugar to make alcohol by yeast, bacteria, or other microorganisms.
The ferment happens when yeast is added to the mixture.
Often appears as...
- yeast ferment
- natural ferment
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To cause or undergo fermentation.
The juice is left to ferment in barrels for several months.
Often appears as...
- ferment juice
- ferment for months
noun
A state of great excitement or turbulence.
The whole city was in a ferment after the election results were announced.
Often appears as...
- in a ferment
- cause ferment
verb
To incite or stir up (trouble or disorder).
He was accused of fermenting political unrest.
Often appears as...
- ferment trouble
- ferment disorder
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Biochemistry Context
The noun form of 'ferment' is often used in scientific contexts related to biochemistry and food production.
The study focused on the ferment in cheese making.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Alcoholic
'Ferment' doesn't only apply to alcohol; it's used for any anaerobic process where microorganisms break down sugars.
Yogurt is produced through milk ferment.
Pro Tip 1/2Biochemistry Context
The noun form of 'ferment' is often used in scientific contexts related to biochemistry and food production.
The study focused on the ferment in cheese making.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Alcoholic
'Ferment' doesn't only apply to alcohol; it's used for any anaerobic process where microorganisms break down sugars.
Yogurt is produced through milk ferment.
Pro Tip 1/2Biochemistry Context
The noun form of 'ferment' is often used in scientific contexts related to biochemistry and food production.
The study focused on the ferment in cheese making.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Alcoholic
'Ferment' doesn't only apply to alcohol; it's used for any anaerobic process where microorganisms break down sugars.
Yogurt is produced through milk ferment.
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Peter Reinhart: The art...
and this is really getting to the heart of what makes bread so special is that it is a transformational food, and we're going to explore that in a minute. But then, quickly through the next few stages. We, after it's fermented and it's developed, started to develop flavor and character, we divide it into smaller units.
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Is Your Perfume Made...
to make agarwood production more efficient. By using micro-organisms to feed on agarwood chips, they're able to speed up the fermentation process, which produces more oil in less time and more importantly, requires less wood. In Assam, they've also begun to introduce the fungus to cultivated tree populations.
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Sean Sherman: Why aren't...
traditional medicines, food preservation, fermentation, nutrition, health, spirituality, gender roles, sustainability -- all of that stuff is this really important education that we need to learn, you know. So let's just break down some foods real quick. Proteins are easy.
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How to saber a bottle of...
second fermentation process now this is where you add cane sugar and yeast into each bottle and it produces alcohol and carbon dioxide which makes all the bubbles that we love but also all that pressure that I'm so afraid of and this is also why champagne has those extra
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The rapid growth of the...
could help him revive his village. Like many rural communities, Luo's home specialized in a very specific provincial craft -- making fermented bean curd, in this case. So he started a small factory and started selling his locally made goods online.
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How the food you eat...
Fermented foods are teeming with helpful probiotic bacteria, like lactobacillus and bifidobacteria. Originally used as a way of preserving foods before the invention of refrigeration, fermentation remains a traditional practice all over the world.
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A brief history of...
where residue in clay pots has revealed that people were making an alcoholic beverage from fermented rice, millet, grapes, and honey. Within a few thousand years, cultures all over the world were fermenting their own drinks.
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What you need to know...
to do really, really important work, like making better models of diseases in animals, for example, or for taking pathways that produce valuable chemicals and getting them into industrial production in fermentation vats,
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Licking bees and pulping...
Wasps consume crop-eating insects, making them particularly helpful for farms and gardens. They even pollinate fruits and vegetables, and help winemakers by biting into their grapes and jump-starting fermentation.
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Forest Trail Mix PIPE The...
improve gobble oh yeah jackpot yeah good girl got some food yeah I see him these are insect larvae and ferment they're a staple of life see that one crawling there Allen's got a lot of
Video examples
Peter Reinhart: The art...
and this is really getting to the heart of what makes bread so special is that it is a transformational food, and we're going to explore that in a minute. But then, quickly through the next few stages. We, after it's fermented and it's developed, started to develop flavor and character, we divide it into smaller units.
Video examples
Is Your Perfume Made...
to make agarwood production more efficient. By using micro-organisms to feed on agarwood chips, they're able to speed up the fermentation process, which produces more oil in less time and more importantly, requires less wood. In Assam, they've also begun to introduce the fungus to cultivated tree populations.
Video examples
Sean Sherman: Why aren't...
traditional medicines, food preservation, fermentation, nutrition, health, spirituality, gender roles, sustainability -- all of that stuff is this really important education that we need to learn, you know. So let's just break down some foods real quick. Proteins are easy.
Video examples
How to saber a bottle of...
second fermentation process now this is where you add cane sugar and yeast into each bottle and it produces alcohol and carbon dioxide which makes all the bubbles that we love but also all that pressure that I'm so afraid of and this is also why champagne has those extra
Video examples
The rapid growth of the...
could help him revive his village. Like many rural communities, Luo's home specialized in a very specific provincial craft -- making fermented bean curd, in this case. So he started a small factory and started selling his locally made goods online.
Video examples
How the food you eat...
Fermented foods are teeming with helpful probiotic bacteria, like lactobacillus and bifidobacteria. Originally used as a way of preserving foods before the invention of refrigeration, fermentation remains a traditional practice all over the world.
Video examples
A brief history of...
where residue in clay pots has revealed that people were making an alcoholic beverage from fermented rice, millet, grapes, and honey. Within a few thousand years, cultures all over the world were fermenting their own drinks.
Video examples
What you need to know...
to do really, really important work, like making better models of diseases in animals, for example, or for taking pathways that produce valuable chemicals and getting them into industrial production in fermentation vats,
Video examples
Licking bees and pulping...
Wasps consume crop-eating insects, making them particularly helpful for farms and gardens. They even pollinate fruits and vegetables, and help winemakers by biting into their grapes and jump-starting fermentation.
Video examples
Forest Trail Mix PIPE The...
improve gobble oh yeah jackpot yeah good girl got some food yeah I see him these are insect larvae and ferment they're a staple of life see that one crawling there Allen's got a lot of
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Konnie Huq
British Celebrity
By fermenting tiny single-cell organisms we will be able to synthesise all manner of foodstuffs in the future, everything from pasta to eggs, fish and meat. Small tweaks in the process will enable production of different proteins used to replicate food we already eat.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
American Politician
If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
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Pope John XXIII
Italian Clergyman
In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying ferment for the mass; and it will be that all the more as, in the depths of his being, he lives in communion with God.
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Joe Bastianich
American Chef
Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.
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Yotam Ottolenghi
Israeli Chef
If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.
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Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
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James Tobin
American Economist
The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Spanish Philosopher
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
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Edward Hirsch
American Poet
Fresh or changing conditions ferment fresh forms.
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Konnie Huq
British Celebrity
By fermenting tiny single-cell organisms we will be able to synthesise all manner of foodstuffs in the future, everything from pasta to eggs, fish and meat. Small tweaks in the process will enable production of different proteins used to replicate food we already eat.
Quote examples
Hubert H. Humphrey
American Politician
If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
Quote examples
Pope John XXIII
Italian Clergyman
In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying ferment for the mass; and it will be that all the more as, in the depths of his being, he lives in communion with God.
Quote examples
Joe Bastianich
American Chef
Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.
Quote examples
Yotam Ottolenghi
Israeli Chef
If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.
Quote examples
Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Quote examples
James Tobin
American Economist
The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
Quote examples
George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
Quote examples
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Spanish Philosopher
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Quote examples
Edward Hirsch
American Poet
Fresh or changing conditions ferment fresh forms.
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