ricing

English

Verb

ricing

1. present participle of rice

Noun

ricing (uncountable)

1. (soap-making) (Development of) undesirable, hard white granules in soap.
   • 2012, Alicia Grosso, The Everything Soapmaking Book (Simon and Schuster, →ISBN):

     Fragrances can mutate; seizure and ricing are more common; and the soap batter traces rapidly.

   • 2016, Anne-Marie Faiola, Pure Soapmaking (Storey Publishing, →ISBN), page 14:

     Sometimes accompanied by acceleration, ricing is different in that it creates small individual clumps of soap that look like rice granules.

See also

• figging (dated)

Anagrams

• IRCing