When whole, unpeeled potatoes cook in a microwave oven, the water inside them heats rapidly, and when it gets hot enough, the steam that can't escape breaks open the starch buds, releasing their
gluey starch.
Kim Bailey's eight-year-old, a winner between the flags in Ireland, trotted up on her debut at Towcester in
gluey conditions with a ton in hand.
Why do potatoes get
gluey if you mash them in a food processor?
To confirm that hexanal and trans-2-hexenal served as the chemical attractants, Eisner's group constructed
gluey cardboard traps, some of which held tiny tubes of the chemicals.
The perky primates didn't want to come in to go to bed, but staff solved the problem by offering them their favourite treat - gum arabic, a
gluey tree sap which the mini marmosets adore.
When the Bible refers to an 'eye for an eye' it doesn't mention shades of
gluey green.
Cornish Rebel probably found this going too
gluey considering it was good ground on which he ran so well in the Scottish National.
The filling is
gluey and super-sweet and gels with the pastry to get stuck round your gums.
Mix the spices and flour in a bowl, add the lemon juice and a little water and mix until you have a sticky
gluey consistency.
The son of Warning looked a really smart prospect when handling the
gluey conditions at Sandown on his seasonal bow, but subsequently lost his way largely due to a series of niggling problems.
But any worries that the
gluey conditions at the track today could hamper him are dispelled by the fact that earlier in his career, before he went jumping hurdles, he ran a cracker in a National hunt flat race in soft ground when finishing a close-up third, beaten a short head and the same.
They're all caused by plaque (above)--that
gluey layer of bacteria that feeds off sugars on your teeth.