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Post by Silver on Nov 3, 2021 15:10:27 GMT 1
I'm thinking that the 'note' is likely somehow linked to spice interactions with ingredients that express 'Umami'. List those items which to you exhibit some of (to all of) the characteristics of Umami.
To me these items express Umami flavor characteristics:
MSG (of course) Nutritional Yeast Flakes Mushroom Powder Garlic Soy Sauce Hydrolyzed stuff
Can you add more to this list?
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Post by Silver on Nov 3, 2021 15:25:15 GMT 1
Another potentially powerful Umami flavor contributor:
Pink Salt (also known as Prague Powder #1, or Prague Powder #2)
This stuff adds a flavor to "processed" sausage(s) and bacon(s) that seriously (to me) has 'Umami' written all over it.
Caution: May be dangerous if very low and below legally acceptable quantity limits are exceeded.
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Post by Silver on Nov 4, 2021 18:01:09 GMT 1
Autolyzed yeast extract.
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Post by Silver on Nov 16, 2021 22:20:43 GMT 1
Here's a huge contributor to the Umami flavor:
Bromelain
If you may recall, I was somewhat recently disappointed in the toughness as well as the mundane flavor of Rib Steaks derived from a quarter of Grass Fed Beef we purchased. So afterward we purchased some McCormick's Bromelain meat tenderizer (unflavored), and today we had Rib Steaks prepared the exact same way sans for sprinkling some Bromelain power on both sides of them. They were transformed into super tender steaks, but on top of that they were bursting with a wonderful and quite Umami like flavor. The air fried steaks sprinkled with Bromelain were easily a 10+ in my book, whereas I'd be hard pressed to assign the same cuts from the same quarter of beef a 6 without the Bromelain. Bromelain = yummy = Umami!!!
I'd have to speculate that the same should happen for Chicken pieces sprinkled with a marinade of Bromelain powder.
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