February 10th, 2011
Fermenter vs. Fermentor
I just got Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation in the mail this week and I have been reading it on the train to and from work. Within the first the few pages, I learned something new.
The difference between the word “fermentor” and “fermenter”.
Although it seems they can be used interchangeably, the two words have two different meanings.
Fermentor is the vessel where fermentation happens.
Fermenter is the creature that does the fermentation.
I think I have a few spelling errors to change on the blog.
Now that you know the difference between fermentor and fermenter, check out these posts:
on February 10th, 2011 at 4:09 pm
I’m quite sure I’ve screwed this up hundreds of times, but I’m definitely too lazy to go back and fix them.
But it begs the question: why don’t diners eat at a dinor?
on February 10th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
And neither of them show up in the default library of any app’s spell checkor.
on February 14th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Oh dear! I have got some work to do on my site now.
on February 23rd, 2011 at 11:49 pm
I thought the same thing when I read it… I even thought of my wort as the fermentee…
on March 8th, 2011 at 8:05 am
I think i’d better get checking through my site then too!
on November 2nd, 2011 at 12:56 am
Don’t worry about the spelling errors too much…though try. Kill the justify format. That’s for columns, mags, and newspapers. It makes for horrible reading on blogs.
on December 7th, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Ah, Jamie: in northeast Pennsylvania, they DO call them “dinors,” and you can still see that on a number of signs in the area. I love little quirks like that…
on June 14th, 2012 at 10:19 am
where in northeast pa? and i think everyones got some spelling mistakes to fix as everyone spells it with an ‘e’
on July 27th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Au contraire mes amis. Fermenter is the correct spelling. As defined by McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, third edition, “fermenter [food eng] A vessel used for fermenting, such as a vat for fermenting mash in brewing.” Case closed.
on October 15th, 2012 at 11:17 am
fermetOr is the vessel…fermentEr is the organism…case now closed