What do you mean by tempering?

In cooking, tempering is the process of combining two ingredients of radically different temperatures. The two ingredients are slowly combined so they both gradually rise to the same temperature. Certain recipes require tempering, otherwise the shock of combining the two all at once could run the risk of the mixture curdling, seizing, lumping, or splitting. Tempering is commonly used when making sauces (adding liquid to roux), or when making ice cream and custards.

Tempering can also mean to bring an ingredient close to room temperature to shorten the required cooking time.

When working with chocolate, tempering is a completely different process. It involves stabilizing chocolate by melting it, cooling and then reheating it to specific temperatures, which makes it possible to create chocolates which are glossy and hard.

tempering

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

But still, the subjects of the law found ways of resisting and tempering their sentences, as the other essays show.

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There are, however, technical difficulties with using simulated tempering schemes, particularly with regard to setting up the modified densities and their pseudopriors.

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The simulated tempering sampler always started in the hottest distribution (n l 1).

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In the simulated tempering sampler, has a discrete distribution where the number of the distances between classes (values of is) have to be defined empirically.

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It was assumed that higher-quality pastes would tend to have smaller and less tempering and show better control of firing.

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The use of the simulated tempering sampler is not new in genetics.

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Simplification of that process will allow widespread use of methods using simulated tempering schemes in practice.

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For many women, breast cancer has been present for some years, potentially tempering their anxiety.

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The problem of tempering keyboard and fretted instruments has occupied the attention of musicians and theorists for hundreds of years.

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The need for acoustic modulation and, in some spaces, isolation is possibly the strongest constraint tempering the drive towards internal openness and f lexibility.

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He clearly decided that though he could not deny their admission, he also could not rely on tempering instructions to the jury alone.

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The difficulties that adolescents experience in tempering reward seeking with cognition illustrate the possibility that reward systems are not yet subject to the full regulatory influence of prefrontal cortical systems.

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Such disjunctures can only be discovered, however, by extended ethnographic and\or historical research that explores the role of local knowledge and knowledge of the local in tempering master plans.

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Heath (1997) used the simulated tempering sampler to improve mixing in the analysis of haploid radiation hybrid mapping data.

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The term "tempering the wind to the shorn lamb" has also been used in this connection.

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