A dip or dipping sauce is an usual dressing for lots of kinds of food. Dips are made use of to add taste or structure to a food, such as pita bread, dumplings, crackers, chopped raw veggies, fruits, seafood, cubed pieces of meat and cheese, potato chips, tortilla chips, falafel, and in some cases also whole sandwiches when it comes to jus. Unlike various other sauces, as opposed to applying the sauce to the food, the food is commonly put or dipped into the sauce. Dips are commonly used for finger foods, appetisers, and various other food types. Thick dips based upon sour cream, crème fraî& icirc; che, milk, yogurt, mayo, soft cheese, or beans are a staple of American hors d'oeuvres and are thicker than spreads, which can be thinned to make dips. Celebrity chef Alton Brown recommends that a dip is defined based upon its capability to "keep call with its transport device over three feet [1 m] of white carpeting". Dips in numerous kinds are eaten throughout the globe and people have been utilizing sauces for dipping for hundreds of years.
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