How many words can you think of to describe the taste, aroma and texture of beef?They have devised a flavour wheel to help pinpoint taste, texture and mouthfeelIncredibly, a team of tasters and scientists has come up with around 800.Trent Robson is the chef at a leading steak restaurant in Brisbane and even he could only think of a handful."Eight hundred words to describe beef… the general public would put it down to three or four.
"I've done some ripper projects over my years but this would be one of my highlights," Dr Smyth said. "The [tasting] panel were absolutely excited when they heard they got to be tasting wagyu, premium wagyu at that."Wagyu is a Japanese beef breed prized for its fine ribbons of marbled fat. It can sell for hundreds of dollars a kilogram."Roasted, caramelised, brassica, barnyard, white pepper, cheesy and fresh bread crust are [just some] of the flavours we can sense in the beef," she said.
"We know there are around 800 flavour volatiles that are present in wine, which create the diverse bouquets you experience across all the different varieties, so in beef there is a similar number of flavours."Tasters tried dozens of two-by-two-centimetre squares of wagyu to determine exactly what those 800 words were.
Brisbane woman Tamami Kawasaki is regularly asked to bring her fine palate into the tasting laboratory."We get to taste all sort of food but sometimes you're so focused, you can't even enjoy it because you have to describe what it's like," she said.
Well that’s definitely newsworthy ....
I’ve just 1: yum 😋