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When you caramelise an onion are you really caramelising the sugars?
If I understand your question correctly, you're asking:
Does "true" caramelization happen when browning onions?
Does starch pyrolysis take place when browning onions?
Ad 1) I think it's ...
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Can I ferment black bananas like black garlic?
You cannot make up your own fermentation recipes.
If you hold your bananas at these conditions, you won't get the same bacteria to grow on them that grow on garlic. And as you don't know which ...
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