emulsify, emulsion, emulsifier
Category: Technique, dish, ingredient
Definition: An emulsion is a solution that consists of two or more technically unmixable liquids, with one usually suspended in tiny portions within the other. To emulsify is to mix two such liquids fast and hard enough to create such a colloidal mixture. Given time, the two liquids will tend to separate unless specially treated with an agent (aka an emulsifier)