How to Say "Curdled" in Spanish

cortado

/koɾˈtado/

The English word "curdled" is translated into Spanish as cortado.

Meaning: Translations (adj)

What does it mean word for word?

cortado is the past participle of cortar (to cut), and its use for "curdled" is a literal reference to the milk being "cut" by acid.

Because cortado functions as an adjective, it must agree in gender with the noun it describes, such as leche cortada (curdled milk).

/koɾˈtado/

In a coffee shop, if you order a café cortado, you are not asking for curdled milk. Instead, you are ordering a popular espresso drink that has been 'cut' with a small amount of warm milk.
In some Spanish dialects, cortarse can be used as a slang term for feeling shy or hesitant to do something, effectively 'curdling' one's own confidence.
While leche cortada refers to spoiled milk, the process of intentionally curdling milk to make fresh cheese is called cuajar, which means 'to coagulate'.

El yogur se realiza mediante la fermentación de la leche hasta que esta se encuentra cuajada.
Yogurt is made by fermenting milk until it is curdled.
El queso es obtenido a partir de la leche coagulada con enzimas específicas.
Cheese is obtained from milk that is curdled with specific enzymes.
La sopa se arruinó, la leche se cortó.
The soup got ruined, the milk curdled.
La salsa se arruinó, parece que se ha cortado.
The sauce got ruined, it seems to have curdled.
La leche está talhada, no deberíamos usarla para preparar el postre.
The milk is curdled, we shouldn't use it to make the dessert.
El yogur está cortado.
The yogurt is curdled.

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