Today's taste testing began with with four milk chocolates. I was looking forward to this since milk chocolate is what I have always preferred since that is what I ate as a child. The first chocolate was the Michel Cluizel. I thought that it was somewhat tart for milk chocolate. It was hard to discern cocoa, but it certainly was not as sweet as I expected. The next was the Green and Black. This was much sweeter than the Cluizel. It had a very strong milky taste and was extremely smooth. The next chocolate we tasted was the El Rey. This chocolate had more of a cocoa taste than the previous two, and I could taste a hint of fruit in the aftertaste. Our next one was the Amadei. This had hints of cream and butter and it was sweet, but none of the flavors overpowered me.
We also did a triangle test with Coke and Pepsi. I have always been a Coke person, and I have always prided myself on being able to tell the difference. Now it was time to find out if I really could. We were brought three different cups labeled triange, circle, and square. The first thing I did was smell them, and it was obvious from that that the circle was the different one. So I just had to taste them to find out whether it was Coke or Pepsi. I wrote down that it was coke, which was confirmed after a few minutes. The giveaway for me was that Pepsi is sweeter and Coke has a sharper bite to it.
Finally, we tasted three cheeses- Feta, Farmers, and Goat. The Feta is porous and had a very chalky texture, which I really didn't like. It was milky and very salty. The Farmers cheese was different. It tasted very sour to me, although the rest of the class seemed to really like it. It was thick and smooth, and the taste lingered in my mouth. The Goat cheese was smooth and creamy, although it did have a grittiness to it. It was also somewhat tangy. We then tried the Goat with lemon and honey. The lemon complemented it well, but seemed to mitigate some of the flavor. The honey brought out the tanginess.
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