Claire Saffitz

Lemon curd is one of the first things I remember cooking when I was old enough to use the stove without supervision. I looked up a recipe in my one of my mom's Martha Stewart cookbooks and went to work, stirring anxiously and monitoring closely for signs that the mixture was thickening so as not to curdle the eggs.

American Editor

Karen Bender

Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.

American Novelist

Jeffrey Kluger

It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

American Writer

Paul O'Grady

My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.

English Comedian

Neal Katyal

Americans can tolerate some secrecy, particularly when it is rooted in protection of the public's interests. But when the claims appear to hide wrongdoing, they begin to curdle.

American Lawyer

Jenny Zhang

There's so much of our behavior that kind of curdles and hardens as we get into adulthood, and it becomes so much more difficult to be hopeful and to dream extravagantly.

Chinese Actress

Lord Byron

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

British Poet

Tina Brown

Servility always curdles into rage in the end.

Curdling typically occurs when heat is applied to milk or cream, changing its texture.

Heat Sensitivity

Acidic ingredients can cause dairy to curdle, important in cooking and food science.

Acid Reaction

Curdled milk is often a sign of spoilage and may indicate it's unsafe to consume.

Spoilage Indicator

Metaphorically, 'curdle' can express a strong feeling of disgust or revulsion.

Emotional Response

Used figuratively, 'curdle' can describe a sensation in response to something disturbing.

Figurative Use

'Curdle' describes a mood turning sour or an environment becoming uncomfortable.

Spoiled Atmosphere

Curdling eggs requires controlled heat to avoid undesirable texture in dishes.

Controlled Cooking

'Curdle' is sometimes desired in cooking to achieve a specific thickness for sauces or creams.

Desired Consistency

 An enzyme is a protein that's a catalyst, it speeds up or accelerates a chemical reaction, just as the chymosin over here is accelerating the curdling of the milk. But it's not just about cheese. While enzymes do play an important role in the foods that we eat, they also are involved in everything from the health of an infant

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 its proteins start to aggregate and curdle. That's why spoiled milk is clumpy. Cheesemakers usually add an enzyme called rennet, naturally found inside of cows, goats, and some other mammals to help this process along. Eventually, those little curdles turn into bigger curds,

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 something began to curdle inside him, a rising resentment. First, a pang at a fellow scientist's heightened celebrity. Well, that was normal. Then he got to the park about the origin of the planets.