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filmer hermétiquement

English translation: cover tightly (with plastic wrap)


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French term or phrase:filmer hermétiquement
English translation:cover tightly (with plastic wrap)
Entered by: Daniel Weston
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22:37 Oct 23, 2011
French to English translations [PRO]
Cooking / Culinary
French term or phrase: filmer hermétiquement
Does this mean "cover tightly with plastic film or wrap"?


Mettre les griottes dans un cul de poule, et **filmer bien hermétiquement**
Daniel Weston
United States
cover tightly
Explanation:
agree with your suggestion.. it's the best you can do with plastc film!
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piazza d
France
Local time: 02:32
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Summary of answers provided
4 +6cover tightlypiazza d
4 +2seal (the bowl) (hermetically) with plastic wrap/GladWrap/ClingFilmxxxBourth
4tightly clingfilm
B D Finch
4wrap tightly with cling wrap / cling film
Sarita Jannin
3 -3vacuum sealed
Timothy Rake


Discussion entries: 8





  

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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -3
vacuum sealed


Explanation:
If it's got to be air tight and leak proof, I don't think anything else would do here -– it's vacuum sealed. An option is perhaps "shrink wrapped" - but that doesn't imply necessarily that it's environmentally sealed in my mind

Timothy Rake
Local time: 17:32
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Notes to answerer
Asker: I should have given some additional context - after sealing the cherries, they are cooked in a bain-marie for a couple of hours to get the juice. Does that change anything in your answer?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Melissa McMahon: "hermetiquement" is often used fairly loosely (no pun intended) in recipes just to mean "seal well", not something requiring special equipment.
1 hr
disagree  JaneD: no, it's just covering the cherries with clingfilm
2 hrs
disagree  Tony M: If it were this it would say so; besides, it would be difficult to do if they're in a cul de poule.
3 hrs
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
cover tightly


Explanation:
agree with your suggestion.. it's the best you can do with plastc film!

piazza d
France
Local time: 02:32
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: Yes indeed!
1 hr
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agree  Melissa McMahon
1 hr
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agree  emiledgar: or "wrap tightly"
1 hr
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agree  Rachel Fell
3 hrs
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neutral  B D Finch: That could mean with a lid, rather than clingfilm.
6 hrs
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agree  Kelly Harrison: ...with clingfilm
8 hrs
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agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: You have to incude something to convey the sense of the plastic film, "with palstic wrap", "with cling film" or similar.http://www.plasticisers.org/applications/food-cling-wrap
13 hrs
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
wrap tightly with cling wrap / cling film


Explanation:


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Note added at 10 hrs (2011-10-24 09:33:01 GMT)
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sorry probably better

wrap tightly with cling film / plastic film

so as not to repeat the word wrap twice


Sarita Jannin
Local time: 02:32
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tony M: As others have said, the use of 'wrap' is indavisable, as it might be understood as wrapping the whole thing, bowl and all.
4 hrs
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
tightly clingfilm


Explanation:
The verb "to clingfilm" is widely used.

www.creamuntilfluffy.co.uk/raspberry-cream-and-mascarpone-c...
"You need to tightly clingfilm the whole cake when it's assembled, so place your first half of cake on a plate with a large piece of clingfilm ..."

uk.answers.yahoo.com › ... › Food & Drink › Cooking & Recipes
"... keep the fillets in fridge on a plastic tray and jay-cloth, then tightly clingfilm the tray. depending on when the fish is caught you will have 3-5 days ..."


B D Finch
France
Local time: 02:32
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 39

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  xxxBourth: "Clingfilm" is country/culture specific. In NZ the stuff is commonly called GladWrap, and I believe it's something else in the USA.
8 hrs
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
seal (the bowl) (hermetically) with plastic wrap/GladWrap/ClingFilm


Explanation:
and other trade names.

I realize the context says it all, but looking at most of the answers so far I imagine these things being wrapped tightly in the film, as if they were going in the freezer.

I see no reason not to use "hermetically" - the idea is to keep air out, presumably (or, rather, to prevent the renewal of air in contact with the things) -, though "seal" alone is probably sufficient.



xxxBourth
Local time: 02:32
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 88

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: It couldn't really be literally 'hermetic' in the technical sense; just means 'cover more thoroughly than just loosely, and don't pierce any holes in it' (presumably, here, to stop spillage and ensure no condensation gets in). Key point is 'seal'
36 mins
  -> Indeed, the term is used loosely, in the sense "airtight" (used loosely again), not .... hermetically (?).
agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: In the sense "airtight". I like "seal" too.
6 hrs
  -> Seals are airtight, and watertight too. Otherwise they'd sink and never be able to come up for air.
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