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Anything "truffle" I've ever been offered smells absolutely terrible to me. While not near as powerful as durian, the smell and taste give me a bit of that vibe.
Perhaps it's all just been fake truffle oil type crap and real shaved truffle is amazing, but nobody's ever given me any of that or inspired me to try it.
Truffle oil is the real truffle flavor. It's the synthetic diamond or baking vanilla situation all over again.
I'd take a lab diamond or bottle of vanillin over the truffle stuff I've had any day!
Even the old school beaver anus vanillin! ๐
If you don't like truffle oil, you probably just don't like truffle, and that's fine. Like the other commenter said, it's literally just the same compound that's been synthesized.
2,4-Dithiapentane
Real truffles obviously have some other flavoring compounds in there, but like vanilla vs vanilin, you'd probably have a hard time distinguishing between them in a dish in a blind taste test.
I have eaten shaved truffles, and even that's really a gamble. The problem is that they aren't really good until they are "ripe", but once you dig them up, i don't think they ripen any more. There's also a big counterfeit problem since many species look similar. I've had good truffles, and I've had truffles that literally just taste like nothing.
Huh, that makes sense the real deal would also be a bit more finicky and dependent on a lot of variables that industrialized product wouldn't be affected by.
Agree 10000%. I went to a truffle party a couple of years ago. Plain cheese pizza, grilled asparagus, steak bites, etc. all with small shaved pieces of truffle (that i assume was outrageously expensive). Those were very good and nothing like the typical stinky Parmesan truffle fries that every restaurant sells.
If I were to see someone shaving it off the real deal, I'd give it another try, but at this point I'm done with the stuff otherwise and even if the real deal is a better version of that flavor, it hasn't inspired me enough to cough up the money for a small real truffle for myself.
Agree, the first thing that came to mind, seeing this thread.
Truffles* and durian are actually good and you guys are just boring.
*too much truffle oil is nasty
Lol always a possibility. I've tried both a few times to give them a fair shake, and while I taste amazing flavor elements in both those things, the cons just always outweigh the pros. ๐
I'll extend the truffle hate to all mushrooms. If I wanted food covered in fungus, I would have waited for it to start rotting.
Wild foraged mushrooms are incredible.
I used to hate mushrooms until I started foraging. It turns out I'm just not a big fan of Agaricus bisporus, and it turns out that's the absolute lions share of mushroom consumption in the western world in various forms with various names.
Foraging though, it's all so good.
100% agree. I don't like the smell to begin with, but what's worse is that the aroma is so powerful, it completely eclipses the taste of whatever food items it's mixed with.
Yes, no matter what flavor enhancer you're adding to a dish, once it starts replacing the actual flavor of the main ingredient, you've gone way too far!
Extreme hot sauces, over hopped beers, etc
Me whenever someone tries to say that In N Out fries are the best while dunking them in a gallon of ketchup. Good fries should stand on their own.
I second your impression of truffles. I'm yet to appreciate them. So far in my books is a thing that tastes like dirt and shoots up ridiculously the price of whatever it's added into
I see truffle fries most commonly, and I've taken to calling them "pig stink fries" in reference to the horny truffle finding pigs. ๐
Nice to randomly bump into you again btw, I haven't seen a comment from you in a bit!
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