also Professional Battery Charger $17.99 on sale next Saturday
Red Lumpfish Caviar 50g $3.99 ($79.80/kg) - 85% Roe, Made in Iceland
Black Summer Truffles 25g $7.99 ($319.60/kg) - 72% Truffles, Product of Italy
Saffron Threads 0.5g $3.99 ($7980/kg) - 100% Saffron, Packed in Australia from imported ingredients
Can anybody comment on the quality of the truffles? At $320/kg, seems a bit cheap…makes me think they're not up to scratch?
can't comment on the quality, because they were sold out last time i tried to buy them, but note that they are preserved truffles, not fresh truffles.
and depending on the oil they are in, can taste completely like petrol - yuck
Can't comment on this brand, but i bought a virtually identical product in Europe last year and brought it home to use. Very disappointing; My experience is that truffle oil and truffled cheese deliver the flavour much better. It could be worth buying to try, and judge for yourself.
the thing with truffle oil is that almost certainly it is synthetic truffle ("truffle aroma").
not that i personally have an issue with synthetic truffle, as i still enjoy the flavour…but it's not the same as fresh truffle (it only replicates 1 chemical of natural truffles).
it's much easier (cheaper) to jam in more "truffle" into products made with synthetic truffle than with natural truffle, hence why synthetic truffle products tend to have a much more intense flavour (lots of 1 chemical vs a bit of lots of chemicals).
(ps. i also find the anti truffle oil/aroma brigade, which includes pretty much every chef i love, amusing. truffle oil is often compared to synthetic vanilla - if given the choice between real vanilla bean and synthetic vanilla, i would always use real vanilla bean!!! but given the choice of no vanilla or synthetic vanilla…hey, i'll take the synthetic vanilla! that pretty much sums up my standpoint on synthetic truffle.)
Me myself find vanilla bean too intense and overpowering(for everything even gelato). Prefer the man-made stuff.
I got some the other day. Summer truffles taste less intense than Black truffles which we usually get in most restaurant. The texture is more soft and crumbly in comparison. There is no oil in it, just a little bit of truffle juice. It's worth a try for the cost, but don't expect it to taste like +$1000/kg
bought one of each yesterday. thinking what should i cook to use them all?
it's a recipe called mystery stew or soup of the day.
Black Summer Truffles 25g $7.99 ($319.60/kg) - 72% Truffles, Product of Italy
Recipe - Black Truffle & Wild Mushroom Risotto
Serves: 4
Prep time: 30 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Ingredients:
Method:
just so you know the truffle is actually from china and not real black truffle, better known as tuber indicum.
technical it is a variety of truffle, but inferior cousin of the black truffle.
its less fragrant and cost around $25US - $75US wholesale. The Chinese used to free them to the pigs, before the french discovered it and decide to mixed it with the real thing to maxmised profit
http://www.plantationsystems.com/tuber-indicum-chinese-truff…
well, they are said to be impossible to differentiate except dna test (as per the link you sent)… so it could also be the real truffle but taste bad just like how sometimes apple trees give a bad batch.
to be honest, i cannot be in good conscience, pay such obscene amount of money for a small amount fungi or even fake ones at that.
it is just wrong.
just so you know the truffle is actually from china
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Product of Italy
not real black truffle, better known as tuber indicum.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle#Types
black summer truffle (Tuber aestivum)
Btw there on sale from yesterday and most stores are sold out of the truffles'
most stores? all of the few i visited yesterday had plenty of the above :)
btw sale started wednesday not yesterday
Has anyone found any reviews on the Professional Charger?
I'll take 10kilos of each. What a bargain…