Cooking with stevia
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- Gillthepainter
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Re: Cooking with stevia
very 70's.
Twas all the fashion to cook with sweetener sugar. And the faddy diet reigned supreme.
Twas all the fashion to cook with sweetener sugar. And the faddy diet reigned supreme.
- Stokey Sue
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Re: Cooking with stevia
The trouble with stevia is that despite all the hype it's not tasteless apart from the sweetness, or not to my taste
There's a noticeable odour when you open the package and when added to citrus there's a really unpleasant taste, I've noticed it in both commercial and homemade lemonade
There's a noticeable odour when you open the package and when added to citrus there's a really unpleasant taste, I've noticed it in both commercial and homemade lemonade
- Joanbunting
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I bought some once. I opened the package and it didn't even make it into whatever I was planning for it. I found the smell utterly repulsive,
- karadekoolaid
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I've noticed the same. There also seems to be an issue with other sweeteners ( including Splenda), at least for me. It's an unpleasant aftertaste. Yuk.
- Stokey Sue
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I don't like things (such as tonic water) sweetened with saccharin but can tokerate them. I have a friend who claims to be able to detect the taste in small amounts and loathes it. For years I thought she was just being precious but actually she really does seem to taste it differently to most of us.
- Joanbunting
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IIt probably means she is a super taster Sue. there was an interesting episode of Curious Cases of Ruthrford and Fry on Radio 4 this week;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09l039t
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09l039t
- Alexandria
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Re: Cooking with stevia
Joan,
Thank you very much for posting the BBC TV Programme on low, medium and super tasters ..
Definitely exceptional and astute ..
I too, can taste and smell false sugars and have a grand disdain for any false sugar or sweetner ..
I have become well accustomed to drinking my Espresso, Cappucchino and Earl Grey black tea, with no sweetners what so ever ..
Thank you very much for posting the BBC TV Programme on low, medium and super tasters ..
Definitely exceptional and astute ..
I too, can taste and smell false sugars and have a grand disdain for any false sugar or sweetner ..
I have become well accustomed to drinking my Espresso, Cappucchino and Earl Grey black tea, with no sweetners what so ever ..
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- Stokey Sue
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Joanbunting wrote:IIt probably means she is a super taster Sue. there was an interesting episode of Curious Cases of Ruthrford and Fry on Radio 4 this week;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09l039t
She isn't, as biochemists we have done the test few times, that's how geeks with access to chemicals amuse themselves. in school we were told either you were or you weren't, it was on or off. But now they say it graduates and I'm certainly a partial, I was tested again quite recently during a seminar by Bea Wilson
- Stokey Sue
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Re: Cooking with stevia
Actually, perhaps she s the other kind of supertaster
Just watched E1 S2 of the Wine Show, now Channel 5, 19:00 on Fridays, recommended
Anyway, Joe Fattorini was doing the other supertaster test,. In short, you may have anything from 2 000 to 8 000 actual tastebuds on your tongue. Roughly the less you have, the stronger and less milky you like your coffee
I suspect this can be modified by not liking the smell of coffee, or as I do not liking the smell of milk but worth noting there are different ways of tasting
Just watched E1 S2 of the Wine Show, now Channel 5, 19:00 on Fridays, recommended
Anyway, Joe Fattorini was doing the other supertaster test,. In short, you may have anything from 2 000 to 8 000 actual tastebuds on your tongue. Roughly the less you have, the stronger and less milky you like your coffee
I suspect this can be modified by not liking the smell of coffee, or as I do not liking the smell of milk but worth noting there are different ways of tasting
- Badger's Mate
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Re: Cooking with stevia
On a slightly related note (of a naturally occurring substance that purports to sweeten things) has anyone used sweet cicely? It's reputed to require less sweetening if added to fruit, whether this is due to it being sweet-tasting or neutralising the fruit acids I'm not sure. Should have Googled, but haven't got a round tuit. For the same reason, the seeds I bought last Spring for sowing in the autumn are still in the packet...
- Badger's Mate
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Yes, it probably means apples pies tasting of liquorice (or tarragon ) but I'll give it a go if I remember. There is conflicting advice about when to sow, some suggest the seeds need stratification or autumn sowing to get them started.
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