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Shared mechanisms — fermentation, gluten, pectin, microbes — that several crafts use without duplicating the explanation.
Science pages are canonical homes for phenomena. Fermentation is not a baking subfolder. Gluten is not only bread. Milling is not a bakery tour. Pectin is not only jam. Acidity is sourness in tasting and pH in canning — same word, two jobs.
Craft pages apply these mechanisms. This branch explains them once.
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- Acidity — The sour taste and low pH that shape fermentation, gel set, cheese texture, wine balance, and which canning process is even legal to use.
- Fermentation — Microbial transformation of food, producing gas, acid, alcohol, and flavor in bread, cheese, wine, and beyond.
- Gluten — The protein network formed when wheat flour is hydrated and worked, giving dough its extensibility and gas-holding strength.
- Lactic acid bacteria — Bacteria that produce lactic acid (and often acetic acid) in sourdough, cheese, and other fermented foods.
- Milling — The mechanical separation of a wheat kernel into flour streams, bran, and germ — a process that decides what bakers later call “flour.”
- Pectin — A plant polysaccharide that can gel fruit, sugar, and acid into jam and jelly when concentration and pH allow the chains to network.
- Wild yeast — Yeasts captured from flour, air, and fruit that leaven sourdough and other spontaneously fermented foods.
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