Leather flavour
A long time ago (ten years I think) I had leather, mint and tobacco chocolates at the Fat Duck.
I've made pretty good tobacco ones, and I've been trying to work out how to do the leather ones.
My first instinct is to get some leather and isi infuse it into booze. Gold standard would be to rotovap that to get the flavor on its own, but unsurprisingly I don't have a rotovap.
1) Does anyone have any thoughts on how to do it?
2) what about the safety of leather. Eating chrome tanned leather is probably like using a plutonium fork. But what about veg tanned stuff?
3) is there a way to skip the leather completely and get the flavor some other way?
Best Answer
How about using Adam from Hair of the Dog beer? It is noted especially for its taste of fine leather. Honest and not kidding.
It is also noted that it's tastes great with chocolate and cigars, so I bet you could somehow make use of it.
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What is leather flavor?
Leather is the tanned skin of an animal, usually a cow. The flavor of leather in a wine often comes from the tannins in it - naturally occuring substances found in red wine skins, in the seeds, and in the oak barrels that wines age in. Tannins are what help a wine age for many years.What is leather in wine?
An aroma often found in red wines that have been aged in oak. Either a secondary or a tertiary aroma, it is associated with the winemaker's influence and a wine's ageing process rather than a grape's varietal characteristic or primary aroma.What is the vanilla taste in wine?
Oaking means vanillaIt involves the ageing of wines in barrels made from oak. This process influences wine characteristics like structure, quality, and flavor. And this is precisely where the vanilla flavor in wines comes from. The science behind this is in the chemical compound found in oak \u2013 vanillin.What do different types of red wine taste like?
Popular Red Wines- Cabernet sauvignon \u2013 Full-bodied with herbal notes. Younger cab has rich flavors of currant.
- Merlot \u2013 Fruity, spicy. ...
- Pinot noir \u2013 Delicate and fresh, very soft tannins with fruity aromas.
- Zinfandel \u2013 Typically zesty, ranges from medium- to full-bodied and dry to off-dry.
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