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It is a poorly organized rant that should have been about 1000 words shorter, but the point is one worth making. Truffle oil and most truffle-flavored foods hav
by Veen 4y ago
It is a poorly organized rant that should have been about 1000 words shorter, but the point is one worth making. Truffle oil and most truffle-flavored foods have no truffles in them. They have an artificial truffle flavor called 2,4-dithiapentane, which is extracted from petroleum oil. If they do have truffle in them, it's cheap tasteless varieties and the flavor comes from the artificial truffle flavor. Most of the truffle-based food you buy in stores and restaurants is not really truffles.
- jagged-chisel 4y ago> They have an artificial truffle flavor called 2,4-dithiapentane It's the same compound that's found in the truffle. We found somewhere else to extract it, but we don't make it from scratch. I suppose, then, truffles are just artificially flavored.
- newZWhoDis 4y agoThey say it’s the same, but I doubt it.
- jagged-chisel 4y agoThe snooty article author says it's the same. One would presume that if the compound was not the same, the author would be all over it and exclaiming that from the rooftops. As it stands, it's just an elitist article about the source of a compound that's either responsible for Terrific Truffles or Petroleum Pasta - author can't decide. edit: improve alliteration
- throwaway2037 4y agoBrilliant post. I agree 100%. That article was nothing but food snobbery / gate-keeping. I would love to see this guy doing blind-folded taste tests. I am willing to bet he would score worse than 50%. Regarding your excellent summary: If only there was a GPT-3 equivalent Chrome extension to automatically do this for me!