J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

So in order to make a large volume of sausage, you need to have a dedicated refrigerated room, where you can grind and mix and stuff and everything, because if sausage mixture gets too warm while you're forming it, it doesn't bind properly, and your sausages end up crumbly and dry.

American Chef

Claire Saffitz

Replacing white flour with whole wheat generally makes baked goods denser, drier, and more crumbly because the germ and bran in whole wheat absorbs more water.

American Editor

Susie Dent

Friable isn't often used of food, yet its meaning lends itself perfectly to pastry and crumbly biscuits.

English Scientist

Describes how something feels that easily breaks apart when touched.

Texture Quality

Use 'crumbly' when food isn't elastic or stretchy in your mouth.

Not Chewy

Often implies that the item is dry, which may or may not be desired.

Dryness Implication

Invokes a vivid mental picture of something breaking apart easily.

Descriptive Imagery

Refers to mixtures that are loosely bound and not smooth.

Quality of Mixtures

Denotes a substance that breaks into small fragments or pieces.

Fragmentation

 okay this did a huge amount of damage and again this was a rock probably roughly the size of this auditorium that were sitting in in meteor crater it was made of metal and metal is much tougher so it made it to the ground the one over Tunguska was probably made of rock and that's much more crumbly so it blew up

How to defend Earth from...

 and that's much more crumbly, so it blew up in the air. Either way, these are tremendous explosions -- 20 megatons. Now, when these things blow up, they're not going to do global ecological damage. They're not going to do something like the dinosaur killer did. They're just not big enough.

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 delivered us to the surface blew away the dust so we went to the the one over to the left and what we saw when we got there were these crumbly rocks that look like they were cemented together we took a closer look and we saw that those cemented rocks were actually rounded how

What rocks on Mars can...

 grace with no moving plant parts involved in the kill it's the incredibly slippery surface of the rim and the inner walls of the plant which cause prey to fall in crumbly wax crystals on the plant's surface increase the chances that

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 FEDERICO Where the rock is being more exposed to the water, the rock, it's crumbly. It's very sandy, so I'm going to put one protection here. Wanna be really careful in this.

Crumbly

Texture Quality

Not Chewy

Dryness Implication

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