Tender meaning

Tender means an individual responsible for monitoring and communicating with a diver. 

The tendering process is primarily associated with the overall engineering and commercial considerations but is important to the validation program in that it provides the means to ... 

A variety of other words and expressions are used to describe textural characteristics, such as body, crisp, greasy, brittle, tender, juicy, mealy, flaky, crunchy, and so forth. Many of these terms have been discussed by Szczesniak (1963) and Sherman (1969) most have no objective physical meaning and cannot be expressed in units of measurement that are universally applicable. Kokini (1985) has attempted to relate some of these ill-defined terms to the physical properties involved in their evaluation. Through the... 

Bratzler, L.J. 1932. Measuring the tenderness of meat by means of a mechanical shear. Master s thesis, Kansas State College. 

A good consistency means "the jelly has a tender to slightly firm texture and retains a compact shape without excessive syneresis (weeping)" (M. The levels of pectin use range from 0.1 to 1.0% in the final jelly or jam and are critical to its success ( ). 

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