Tempering
- Tempering, in metallurgy, a heat treatment technique for metals and alloys; also a method for producing tempered glass
- Tempering, in cooking, refers to the frying of spices (particularly in the cuisines of South Asia) to release their aroma; called chaunk in Hindi, or Tadka.
- Chocolate tempering, a method of increasing the shine and durability of chocolate couverture
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“Only after much tempering is steel produced.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)