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  • Fire point

    The temperature at which an oil will take fire and burn.  

  • Fire-fighting

    Opposite of prevention.  

  • Fining

    The application of specific agents (tannins, gelatin etc.) to clarify and stabilize wines.  

  • Fillet

    Fillet

    A piece or slice of boneless meat or fish. A fillet is a cut of meat: with beef it is the undercut of the sirloin, with poultry it is the underside of the breast, and with fish it is one of the two sides that pull easily away from the backbone. The name of this…

  • Fill weight (put-in weight)

    The amount of product put into a container prior to processing. It does not include the brine or liquid or the weight of the container.  

  • Fill temperature

    The temperature of product at the time the container is filled’  

  • Ficin

    A protein-digesting enzyme found in figs.  

  • Fertilizer

    Material used to enrich the land. Anything added to the soil to maintain or increase its fertility. Fertilizers may be organic, that is, derived from once-living matter, as are manure, compost, and blood and bone; or inorganic (artificial), such as sulphate of ammonia or superphosphate, which are prepared in chemical factories. In agriculture, materials added…

  • Fennel

    Fennel

    An herb grown for its aromatic foliage and seeds. From the first century A.D. to the fifth century, the people whose descendants founded the British Empire did not yet live in England (England was not even named England yet). These people, now called the Anglo-Saxons, lived on the northern coast of Europe and spoke a…

  • Farinograph

    An instrument used to determine the quality of hard wheat flour, primarily measuring the protein quantity.  

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