aleurometer
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prettygoodwordaleurometer (al-yuh-ROM-i-ter) - n., an instrument for determining the expansive properties of the gluten in a flour.
By way of determining how good the flour is for baking. Aside from knowing that this involved heating the flour in a closed container to see how much the gluten expands, I have no idea how it works. The leftmost diagram below, from an 1849 German technical journal, is the only example I can find -- click through to embiggen:
Coined from Greek root áleuron, flour.
---L.
By way of determining how good the flour is for baking. Aside from knowing that this involved heating the flour in a closed container to see how much the gluten expands, I have no idea how it works. The leftmost diagram below, from an 1849 German technical journal, is the only example I can find -- click through to embiggen:
Coined from Greek root áleuron, flour.
---L.
