Definition of "gelatinization" []

• The act of making, or becoming gelatinous (noun)

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• "Inside, the potato is raw, but there are layers of starch gelatinization, from a very thin ‘cooked’ layer at the outside, to somewhat translucent midlayers to the raw inside."
• "And gelatinization is yet another oven transformation."
• "Coagulation, caramelization and gelatinization -- when the starch is thick and they absorb all the moisture that's around them, they -- they kind of swell, and then they burst."