Relationships Distinguish From:  bloom n. ~ Conservation · The appearance of a milky substance after the application of a solvent. Notes:  Blanching is distinguished from bloom3, a change in the appea [..]

1) during growing, blanching is a technique used to shade plant parts from sunlight to prevent greening; it’s used when growing cauliflower to keep heads white (the process involves using a clothespin [..]

To whiten (etiolate) a vegetable as it is growing by wrapping the stalk and leaves with paper or outer leaves, or by mounding soil around the portion to be whitened, such as celery.

Keeping light from tender vegetable stems

Excluding light from the stems and/or leaves of certain vegetable crops in order to make them white.

This process keeps light away from plants such as celery and chicory, so that the leaves or stems do not form chlorophyll and are less bitter to eat. The plant to be blanched can be earthed up, wrappe [..]

Foods are submerged in boiling water for a very short time, usually less than five minutes, and then they are usually moved to cold water. The process is used to partially cook a food, to loosen skins [..]

Process of immersing in hot water or heating in steam at 95°C for 1-5 minutes to reduce enzyme activity.

A local, opaque, whitish discoloration on the surface of a painting. Blanching occurs because of a loss of or an alteration in the binding medium in an oil film, or because of the partial dissolution of a varnish film.

v.) - to plunge into boiling water, remove after moment, and then plunge into iced water to halt the cooking process, usually referring to vegetable or fruit 

The process of immersion of products, for example vegetables, in hot water for up to a minute to destroy enzymes and reduce spoilage. Particularlly used for preparing frozen vegetables. Can also be us [..]

A whitening of the skin sometimes caused by some types of hair removal. Also called hypopigmentation.

A whitening of the skin sometimes caused by some types of hair removal. Also referred to as Hypopigmentation.

A term applied to lacquer when they become partially opaque, cloudy or transparent upon application or drying.  Fast-evaporating solvents may cool the film enough to cause water condensation, precipit [..]