what are black truffles very exspensive what do they taste like?

Question

watching tv on black truffles i tthought truffles wre chocolate ....

Answer 1

After 1945 the production of truffles plummeted, and the prices have skyrocketed, reaching the zenith that we know today. In 1900 truffles were used by most people, and on many occasions. Nowadays, they are a rare delicacy reserved for the rich, or used on very special occasions.

Eighty percent of the truffles now produced in France come from specially planted truffle-fields. Nonetheless, production has yet to recover its 1900s peaks. Local farmers are opposed to a return of mass production, which would decrease the price of truffles. However, prospects for mass production are immense. It is currently estimated that the world market could absorb 50 times more truffles than France currently produces. There are now truffle-growing areas in Spain, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia and North Carolina.
Looking for truffles in open ground is almost always carried out with specially trained pigs or dogs. Pigs were the most used in the past, but nowadays farmers prefer to use dogs, which do not eat the truffles. Both pigs and dogs have keen senses of smell, but while dogs must be trained to the scent of truffles, female pigs or sows need no training whatsoever. This is due to a compound within the truffle which has an uncanny resemblance to the sex pheromone of male pigs or boars to which the sow is keenly attracted. It may have been the strange attraction that pigs have to these fungi which prompted its discovery by early human populations.
So, the cost of finding and shipping these pressious diamonds, a very steep.
They have a very intense flavor of an earthy and wood (oak) kind of taste, but not over powering to the dish that are added to.
Chocolate truffles are a group of chocolate confectionery, traditionally made with a chocolate ganache center coated in chocolate or cocoa powder, usually in a spherical or curved shape. Other fillings may replace the ganache: cream, melted chocolate, caramel, nuts, almonds, berries or other assorted sweet fruits, nougat, fudge or toffee, mint, chocolate chips, marshmallow and popularly liquor. They are named for their resemblance to the truffle fungus.

Answer 2

Truffles are both a way to make chocolate and a mushroom. Truffle chocolate traditionally used the semi-sweet (now it is a mixture of ingredients) and whipped it so that is smooth and fluffy allowing it to gently melt in the mouth, thus extending the flavour.

Truffles, the mushroom, are found in dense forested areas with llittle or no evergreens, mostly in France. Evergreens make the soil acidic, which this kind of mushroom doesn't grow in, thus giving them a "woodier" flavour.

There is a school of thought that the early French cuisine (frist restaurant opened in Paris, 1763) started making chocolate truffles as an imitation of the mushroom, but I cannot verfiy this without more research. Today truffles are grown around the world in commerical buildings.

The cost or expense is relative to your income and depends on if you're purchasing locally grown or imported.

Answer 3

What Are Black Truffles

Answer 4

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According to the Australian Truffle Association: There are many different varieties of truffle but for simplicity here, we will focus on the black or Perigord truffle (Tuber melanosporum), What does it taste like? Like many exotic flavors, it is an acquired taste. The aroma of T. melanosporum is musty and sweet, a very intense mushroom smell overlaid with other notes, especially what wine tasters call, forest floor. It cooperates with the flavors in food enhancing and intensifying them. A steak with truffle sauce becomes more meaty, eggs are transformed into a gourmet item, and every aspect of the meal becomes more satisfying.

Answer 5

Chocolate truffles are just a candy named after the truffles that grow in the ground. They are a delicacy, and are very expensive. Used a lot in sauces and all kinds of dishes. Go to the website below. This site has some cool info on truffles like when and where they grow, and some rough ideas of what they cost.

http://www.garlandtruffles.com/about.html

Answer 6

A good way to get the flavor without the expense is to use truffle oil. It comes in black truffle flavor-very earthy, and white truffle flavor-earthy with a hint of garlic. They are both great to cook with or to drizzle on cooked beans or vegetables. YUM!

Answer 7

black truffles are a form of funghi. they are a type of mushroom. They are found in Italy where they have special pigs, that find them. they grow underground. The pigs noses are sensitive enough to find them.

They only grow at sertain times of they year. When cooking with them you only need a little amount as they are very powerful.

they are lovely especially in risotto's or with beef.

Answer 8

truffles are little fungus that grow iin only a few spots of the world (Italy and France). They are harvested by dogs and wild boar.

They are super expensive, becasue they have amazing flavor and noone has figured out how to grow them in bulk.

Answer 9

Whenever we were in Europe I tried some at this little wine tasting shop in Italy. They had them with crackers....I didn't have a clue what they were so I tried some. They tasted awful! Aparently its some kind of fungus that pigs dig up :(

Answer 10

They're just mushrooms but with a very distinct flavour. Frankly, all chefs on TV tell veiwers to replace them with normal mushrooms but I'm sure if they're in the dish it may make a huge difference... maybe.