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The salt draws out the water, as salt does to anything with water.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agobecause the salt breaks up the cellulose cells and allows the water to escape.
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∙ 14y agosalt is used as a preservative, but it also dehydrates
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∙ 13y agosince the salt is more concentrated than the vegetable it looses water and the salt is called hypertonic solution
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∙ 12y agoits starts too get rinkly that's how you make a pickle.
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∙ 11y agothe salt starts to disintegrate
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What would happen if you used a soft cucumber to make pickles?
The liquid surrounding the other pickles may become cloudy and contain pulp from the soft cucumber. Also, the soft cucumber would most likely not be crisp when pickled, but limp and soft.
When celery is soaked in water it becomes crisp again due to?
If it becomes crisp again, it is because it has absorbed more water.
Creeping plant cultivated for its edible cylindrical fruitwhich has white crisp flesh?
Cucumber
If vegetables become wilted they can often be made crisp again by soaking them in water. What process causes this change?
Osmosis is responsible for vegetables crisping up when soaked in water. The water diffuses into the cells and makes them turgid.
Why does a wilted piece of lettuce crisp up in cold water?
wilted lettuce are in a plasmolysed condition,when they are placed in a cold water or hypotonic solution then water enters the leaves by thye process of endosmosis and the leaves becomes deplasmolysed and they become crisp.
How did India and Pakistan become seprated?
a feud over a crisp
Which process is responsible for vegetables getting crispy when soaked in fresh water?
Osmosis causes vegetables in fresh water to crisp up. This is because the liquid in their cells contains dissolved substances. Water therefore diffuses in through the semipermeable cell membrane, causing the cells to become turgid.
Why are vegetables soaked in cold water?
It slows the vegetable's decomposition. On leafy plants like lettuce, turnips, celery, spinach and collards it rehydrates the leaf and makes it crisp. This is done before serving or before refrigeration.
What is detergent food?
foods which are firm or crisp, help to clean teeth as they are eaten. ( e.g. carrot, cucumber, apple, pop corn etc. ) for better results 'make detergent foods the final food' , you eat in your meal.
Why do they call Coco Crisp Coco Crisp?
Hi first name is Covelli and his last name is Crisp, Coc Crisp
How do you use crisp in a sentence?
My, that bacon is certainly crisp. I fell out of my chair on a crisp September morning. The girl handed me one hundred crisp bills. The bed linens were crisp and neatly folded. Mr. Doinko delivered a crisp message to the alumni.
What happens to a slice of bacon if heated?
The fat part of the bacon will melt, quickly or slowly depending on how high the heat, and what is left of the fat will become crisp. Then the lean part will begin first to heat through and then to brown and, finally, to crisp.
