Let me start by saying I do not have a distinguished palate. I saw a flavor profile on a whisky brand that said it had notes of 'sponge cake' and I just thought, Why?
Discerning DLers, are flavor profiles just marketing nonsense?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 11, 2021 9:57 PM |
Slowdown.
Smell, think about what are smelling. Taste, think about what you are tasting. Taste it again, and see if it matches up to what you remember.
Over time you can train your palate to get better at identifying ingredients. It helps if you cook more and learn to identify what different ingredients taste like before they all get combined together in a dish.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 11, 2021 8:48 PM |
But fucking sponge cake? That's more a tactile experience in the way it both resists and accommodates a knife or a fork, an olfactory experience, a visual experience of the golden sponge, an olfactory experience of a buttery open celled cake. But taste? Not so much: buttery would sum it up best.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 11, 2021 9:00 PM |
Going to have to go with OP on this one. Sponge cake is like tofu, built to absorb other flavours. There is a dumb (male or female) sales-slash-marketing cunt behind that description.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 11, 2021 9:40 PM |
Like “buttery” Chardonnay. I don’t particularly want my wine tasting like a dairy product.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 11, 2021 9:57 PM |