manualização

English translation: handling, manipulation

15:48 Jun 22, 2012
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Cooking / Culinary / Cooking Course
Portuguese term or phrase: manualização
Fazer uma pizza é saber controlar a fermentação da massa, o nível certo de manualização, para que o fermento, que é vivo, reaja de forma correta.
Mike Davison
Brazil
Local time: 19:49
English translation:handling, manipulation
Explanation:
This is what I think it means. Correct handling/manipulation to make the yeast react correctly.

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Note added at 17 mins (2012-06-22 16:05:28 GMT)
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Yes, you could use "kneading".

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Note added at 18 mins (2012-06-22 16:06:35 GMT)
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Having said that, the expert pizza makers throw them in the air, spin them around, etc. I'm not sure if "kneading" covers all that...
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Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 19:49
Grading comment
Kneading,Thanks,
Mike
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Summary of answers provided
4 +7handling, manipulation
Martin Riordan
4manual technique
Nick Taylor


Discussion entries: 4





  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
handling, manipulation


Explanation:
This is what I think it means. Correct handling/manipulation to make the yeast react correctly.

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Note added at 17 mins (2012-06-22 16:05:28 GMT)
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Yes, you could use "kneading".

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Note added at 18 mins (2012-06-22 16:06:35 GMT)
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Having said that, the expert pizza makers throw them in the air, spin them around, etc. I'm not sure if "kneading" covers all that...

Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 19:49
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 2
Grading comment
Kneading,Thanks,
Mike
Notes to answerer
Asker: Could it not be KNEADING?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Verginia Ophof
0 min
  -> Thanks, Verginia!

agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
2 mins
  -> Thanks, Teresa!

agree  ghostwriter-BR
6 mins
  -> Thanks, ghostwriter!

agree  Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães: Kneading sounds good—after all, tossing (throwing and spinning) requires kneading beforehand :)
1 hr
  -> Thanks, fv!

agree  Daniel Tavares
2 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Daniel!

agree  Sheryle Oliver: Kneading covers it all. See http://www.jonsullivan.com/recipes/pizza1.php
9 hrs
  -> Thanks, Sheryle!

agree  Lindsay Spratt: kneading
2 days 15 hrs
  -> Thanks, Lindsay!
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manual technique


Explanation:
manual technique

Nick Taylor
Local time: 22:49
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 36
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