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Twelve unexpected facts about products and food
1. Get used to the horseradish and mustard can not.
The island will be forever. To tears. Burning mustard, wasabi and horseradish has a different nature than in the case of Chile.
2. Avocados - is a berry.
Botanically so. Another fact to the uncertainty around the fetus. And fruits and vegetables, ripe avocado delicious raw, it can fry in a pan, and can be transformed into ice cream. The leaves of the tree fragrant and are used as a substitute for bay leaf.
3. Fresh meat is not sold on the market.
Pair it remains no longer than 3-4 hours after slaughter. Next comes the inevitable stiffness, and the meat becomes tough and tasteless. Beef is suitable for food only a day later.
4. Meat and chicken wash useless and harmful.
Meat tissue swells from moisture, and it prevents the formation delicious crust on the grill. Dirty meat is better simply not to buy. A chicken when washing a half meters scatter around sprays that may contain dangerous bacteria. But bananas wash needed. They came from far away.
5. Semolina tastier when it is not made from semolina.
Semolina - Intermediate flour production, which is not suitable for baking bread. A most delicious and creamy porridge is obtained from the noble semolina - brushed flour from durum wheat.
6. Couscous - a pasta.
Despite the fact that it looks like the rump, couscous obtained from durum wheat flour rocks. Flour moistened with a little water and shake up the crumbs of education. You do not have to cook couscous. Simply steamed with hot water and wait.
7. Vanilla - the only genus of orchids, which gives edible fruit.
In other orchids can be Edible Flowers. Rhizomes some fried like potatoes or even make them ice cream.
8. To the pungent taste of red and black pepper can and should be used to it. Capsaicin and piperine activated receptor TRPV1, which signals the brain about pain and burns. With the constant use of the acute reaction is weakened. And then it is possible to discern the nuances of taste and aroma of peppers.
9. Birds do not feel the sharpness of chili peppers.
This can be used for the benefit of cooking. For example, the chef Dan Barber in his restaurant-estate Blue Hill at Stone Barns feeding chickens capsicum chili and receives their eggs red yolk. Yolk has a distinct edge.
10. Small portions have tastier.
We are losing interest in the monotonous food, and even within a single afternoon, and new dishes still cause famine. This is called sensory-specific saturation. Small portions allow you to save your appetite during long tasting.
11. Man distinguishes 5 basic tastes, and at least another 6 extra.
Usually talking about a sweet, sour, bitter and salty taste. It becomes familiar so-called edible flavor, umami. And also - pungent, astringent, fat, soap, ferrous and mint. Well, in pursuit - "ma", numbness.
12. Sweet need to add salt.
Sweet taste is dominant in mixtures even when added to the syrup salt, acid or bitter. 0.3% of the salt in the custard does not change the taste of the dessert, but will make it richer.
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