Too much heat will make the custard curdle.
Too much heat will curdle the custard.
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But their chemistry begins to curdle when she is terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025 While a 70 percent drop would immediately signify audience sentiment around the movie has curdled and is impacting word-of-mouth buzz to keep people away from theaters.—Chris Lee, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025 This causes the proteins in milk to curdle and results in the tangy yogurt taste and texture.—Allison Herries, Verywell Health, 10 Feb. 2025 This was when his baroque aesthetic vision could curdle into kitsch.—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for curdle
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Etymology
metathetic variant of cruddle, crudle, frequentative of crud entry 2
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