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Skriven 2012-08-27 14:59:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: odors 172
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 08-25-12  08:39 <=-

 ML>> summon a fleeting olfactory image of broiled steak.
 ML>> Edited to add: Just did it again, five minutes later. I
 ML>> wonder if there's any danger in this kind of self-abuse
 ML>> or if it's just a harmless pastime.
 NB>> Probably mostly harmless...  ;)

 ML> Mostly, and even beneficial at times, as it helps me
 ML> develop a taste image of what I want to cook, so I have
 ML> something to aim for.

I think I do something similar, if not so developed, when I'm figuring
out how something will likely taste when it's done... but I don't think
that I have the actual smell image available, just a memory in-brain..
 
 ML>> I know - and it kind of scared me at first, but then I
 ML>> recalled that a few years I was in fact brain-damaged, and
 ML>> it's entirely possible there's some residual effect.
 NB>> An interesting proposition.  :)  Hmm... could be a useful skill
 NB>> if one could conjure up at will a pleasant odor to cover a less
 NB>> pleasant one.. 

 ML> Doesn't work that way, or at least hasn't so far.
 ML> Reality has always taken precedence over fakeality,

I'd think it might be a better way than the "glade" overrides...
possibly less nauseating...  ;0

 ML> partially a conscious thing, as having seen psychosis
 ML> in my family (and been at the border on occasion), I
 ML> try to avoid the near occasion of it.

Can't say as I'd blame you much on that, though.  Could be a dangerous
line to tread...
 
 -=> Nancy Backus said to Jim Weller <=-
 JW> An odd recipe... the truffle and the eggs are commingled overnight
 JW> but I doubt if much truffle aroma would permeate the shell. Then the
 JW> eggs are cooked, not with the truffle, but lame truffle oil.
 NB> Overnight likely wouldn't unless the truffle was quite odorous...
 NB> Maybe cooking the truffle and adding it was simply omited from the
 NB> recipe...?  Or maybe it's one of those "wave it over the top" sorts of
 NB> things...? ;)  
 NB> I have known eggs in the shell to pick up odors from the fridge,
 NB> though... but not usually overnight...  ;0
 ML> Real truffles are quite odorous, and I would guess that they
 ML> would impart flavor to the eggs almost instantaneously. The

OK.

 ML> problem is that real truffles are hard to come by, and at
 ML> least 99% of the time what you get in even the toniest of
 ML> restaurants is of lesser species (T. aestivum, for example).

So that is less likely to instantly impart flavor, or even overnight...?

 ML> The real truffle (T. melanosporum) is of a "once tasted always
 ML> remembered" character - if you're unlucky, you can alter that
 ML> to "always wanted," but that way bankruptcy lies.

Unless circumstances change, I'm unlikely to taste it then... :) 
Possibly a safeguard...?  (G)

Wegmans recently added to their basting butter line one purportedly with
truffles... at least in the name... ;)  Wonder what they are using...
since it isn't priced to break the mint...  ;)

ttyl        neb

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