Monday, January 9, 2012

January 9th 2012

Today we received our contraband chef hats, aprons, and kitchen towels.
Our daily chocolate tasting was of milk chocolates:


Green and Black: very smooth mouth feel, I can kinda taste the milk in it, no pungent after taste.


Michel Cluizel:  smooth mouth feel, I taste a lot less milk in this one, has a bit of an after taste.

El Rey:  has a snap when I bite into it unlike the others, it has a really delightful kinda fruity taste, pleasant after taste. I liked this one the best.

Amedel: smooth mouth feel, more chocolate taste than milk chocolate, no real after taste.

We also did a triangle test to determine if it was possible to distinguish between Coke and Pepsi

What's a triangle test? You're given three cups, and two of the three are the same and you have to identify which cup is different.

Before we performed the test, I swore I could distinguish between Coke and Pepsi! When I did the test and made my choice, I was right! I could even distinguish which one was Pepsi and which one was Coke. 

We also did a soft cheese taste test

With goat cheese: I've actually visited a goat farm and I'm very familiar what goat milk products taste like. I really don't like lamb's meat and the taste of lamb is always a tell tale sign of goat cheese. We ate lemon then ate the goat cheese to see how tart/sour it is compared to other cheeses...

Feta cheese: very good, salty, a lot more dense.

Farmer's cheese: basically tastes like sharp cheddar, very good.


I really enjoyed the Alton Brown video on chocolate chip cookies!!!


Dr. Sloan suggested we look up "Alton Brown shop lifting". Here's the link: It's hilarious!
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=298182&p=6622919#p6622919

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