Truffle chocolate truffle
We often say truffle is a kind of fungi growing in the dense forest, the taste of the fresh product is like a mixture of cheese, musk and onion, and once paired with other food, it is more able to produce magical delicious. Europeans have been eating truffles for a couple thousand years. In France, Italy and Spain, where truffles traditionally originate, they are the most favored. France's truffles are black truffles, known as "black diamonds", the world's first production; Italy's truffles are white truffles, known as "white gold", which is produced in Italy's Piedmont region of Alba (Alba) around the white truffle, the world's most expensive varieties, the highest price can be as high as $20,000, and the price can be as high as $50,000, which is the highest price in the world. Expensive varieties, the price of up to six times the price of gold. In terms of popularity, the French black truffle is well known to everyone, and the price has been stabilized at about 500 U.S. dollars per kilogram for many years, but in terms of price, it is the Italian white truffle that is the most expensive. Even in the year of abundance, the white truffle global production of only 3 tons, compared to the annual production of about 35 tons of black truffles, more precious and rare.
Truffles can be eaten in a variety of ways, and French and Italian fine dining restaurants use truffles as an ingredient in famous dishes such as steak with truffle sauce, grilled chicken with white truffles, salmon sashimi with truffle sauce, and macaroni with truffle sauce. Black truffle omelette is a traditional French dish in which truffles are cut into small pieces and mixed into the egg mixture, then sautéed in a pan. White truffles are also a classic family truffle dish, if you add cheese, eggs and milk to make a cheese and eat it with bread. However, the most flavorful way to eat truffles is said to be simply grilled, until the skin is slightly blistered, and then dipped in a pinch of salt. This maximizes the retention of the truffle's own deliciousness.
Some chocolates are called truffles, but if you look up the meaning of the word truffle, you'll see that, in addition to referring to a fungus, the word also refers to a "rounded confection made of chocolate, cream, butter, and sugar, usually infused with rum and covered with cocoa powder". With this definition, it is clear that truffle chocolate has the word truffle in its name only because of the word truffle, which does not contain the fungus truffle, and it is impossible to taste truffle fungus in truffle chocolate.
There is another way to say that the word "truffle" in the name of truffle chocolate is because it looks like a truffle wrapped in soil that has just come out of the ground; and secondly, it is like a truffle, which hides an irresistible and delicious flavor under its inconspicuous appearance. Truffle chocolate melt in the mouth of the excellent taste is also most other chocolate can not be compared, although the truffle chocolate is not as precious as the truffle fungus, but it is also the chocolate inside the excellent flavor.
Truffle chocolate has a shelf life
1) We bought the chocolate is best to eat immediately, because the chocolate is not properly preserved, it is easy to lose the original flavor, first of all, you should not eat the chocolate at a temperature of 12 - 18 degrees in the place, away from the light, avoiding water and avoiding odors. Storage time can be up to 4 weeks.
2) However, the shelf life of factory-produced high-volume chocolate is usually about 1 year, and those handmade fresh chocolate desserts should be eaten as soon as possible.
3) When the temperature reaches 20 degrees Celsius, the cocoa butter, the main ingredient in chocolate, melts and starts to separate, and if it is frozen, a white frosty substance condenses on the surface, affecting the flavor. So the best way to preserve it is to open the box right away, share the sweetness of chocolate with everyone, and let the flavor solidify between our lips.
How to distinguish between real and fake chocolate
Most people do not know the difference between cocoa butter and cocoa butter substitute
It is understood that the real chocolate raw material is "cocoa butter", while the so-called fake chocolate is made of "cocoa butter substitute".
Buy chocolate to pay attention to the packaging and ingredients list
Many supermarkets and stores found that Dove and other well-known chocolate brands, the ingredients list basically did not see the words labeled "cocoa butter". But some bulk chocolate, chocolate products on the packaging is clearly labeled "cocoa butter", "cocoa butter milk chocolate products", "cocoa butter chocolate", "Soft filling chocolate (cocoa butter) products" and so on.
From the City Food and Drug Administration learned that, according to the Ministry of Commerce in 2006 issued by the "Chinese People's **** and the country's domestic trade industry standards" on the "cocoa butter chocolate and cocoa butter chocolate products," the relevant provisions, where cocoa butter added more than 5% of the product can not be directly labeled as "chocolate", "chocolate", "chocolate", "chocolate", "chocolate", "chocolate", "chocolate", "chocolate", "chocolate", "chocolate", "chocolate", "chocolate", "chocolate". Chocolate", but should be labeled with a description of the content of "cocoa butter substitutes", and the labeling should be changed to "chocolate with cocoa butter substitutes" or "chocolate with cocoa butter substitutes". The labeling should be changed to "chocolate with cocoa butter" or "chocolate flavored products with cocoa butter".
Selection of chocolate to "three look"
City Food and Drug Administration staff suggested that when selecting chocolate, a look at the appearance. Good quality chocolate break open delicate and uniform, good gloss, the appearance of a very complete, bad chocolate will have a lot of air holes, uneven, dull, product appearance is very rough; will be covered in the hands of the chocolate, quickly become soft is good, is made with cocoa butter. Second, we should look at the name, production date, shelf life, producer's name and contact information marked on the packaging logo, pay attention to see whether the imported prepackaged food has Chinese labels, Chinese instructions. Third, we should look at the taste, the cocoa butter due to high melting point are generally harder, the taste is obviously not as good as cocoa butter products, and cocoa butter chocolate melt in the mouth.