TheOrange 0 Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 I was reading something last night about truffles. Not the ones you get in a box of cheap chocolates, but truffles that cost 28000 UK pounds (an "Alba truffle" that was accidentally left to rot in Knightsbridge, or a 100 UK pounds "truffle pizza". I've never tasted this. Anyone? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 no, I much prefer the cheap chocolate variety!! Link to post Share on other sites
samurai 0 Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 are you nuts? I'm sorry, but we come from very different backgrounds. That to me defines POSH. f*cking chocolate. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 who are you meaning? My uncle has tasted them and said that they pretty much just taste like dirt!! A gourmet my uncle is not!! Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 Never had one other than the choccy kind. I like them. Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 We bought 300g of Western Australin truffles in August do make up some of the recipes in an issue of Australian Gourmet Traveller magazine. $2500/kg, flown in fresh from WA to order. Had some friends over for dinner (3 courses all featuring truffles), and enough left over to add to an omelette for breakfast. They do have a very earthy flavour, the so-called "Umami" taste characteristics. They tend to enhance to flavours already in food, and their own flavour is hard to compare with anything else. They don't taste like other mushrooms. They go well with chicken, fish or egg dishes, but avoid adding them to heavily flavoured meats and sauces, as the truffle flavours will be masked, and you'll have wasted a lot of money. If you want to go cheaper, you can get preserved or powdered truffles at specialty delicatessens. Link to post Share on other sites
spook 0 Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 so was it worth the $750? (i'm a foodie and am genuinely interested to know - while i can't imagine paying that much, I'm not taking the piss) alain fabregues has recently started growing them in WA. he's a highly aclaimed french chef and reckons he can start producing truffles to rival those from europe. Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 why are they so expensive? Are they hard to grow and scarce in supply? Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 apparently not Sunrise. I heard a story recently about someone in America who was very successfully producing them in quite large volumes, and he had the traditional Trufflists all in a fit because he was gonna start to bring down the exhorbitant prices they have enjoyed for so long. Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 Yes, worth it for a one-off experience, but I don't think we will make a habit of it... I've never tried the genuine Perigord variety, so I can't relly compare the ones we ate to those. Hopefully Bushpig is right, and soon we will be able to enjoy them more often, at more realistic prices. Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 aha, it's a generations old price scam, eh? Link to post Share on other sites
farquah 0 Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 I think the price for wild truffles is a lot diff. as is the taste. Wild truffles are usualy found with a special boar that smells them out, I think!! Also the truffle tree can only produce truffles for about ten of its years i think and takes a while to be mature enough to produce them. I have had them a few times in Europe, it was a custom to have them when we visited a friends place in Alba, Italy (they have a annual truffle hunt here!And are the white truffles not the black ones of Germany). Fresh they have a really really strong smell. I have had truffle pate, and an amazing sirloin with blue cheese and truffles. Taste was awsome! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 I've never had either actually. What kind of taste was it farquah? (Truffle-y?) Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 I'd rather eat the wild boar!! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 1.5kg, $330,000. Not at all bad. http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/bauc...6530468408.html Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 You can bet he'll get his money back, once he hands it over to his head chef. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 that woman standing next to him looks as if her head has been photoshopped onto that body!!! hehehe Link to post Share on other sites
cheeseman 1 Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Is that a big walnut he is carrying, or a brain? Link to post Share on other sites
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