Tasting and Testing – More Adventures in Food

Today was all about describing food in order to design and evaluate.  We started off by tasting stuff: doing a preference test, a triangle test and a ranking test.  It's always interesting to see how people's senses differ (even though this wasn't the point of the tests).  We talked about test methodology too, and used a star diagram to show preference against an evaluation of a product.

Getting into some cooking, we were investigating fats and raising agents, with a pastry bake and some scones to compare and describe the different characteristics and processes that work to achieve the desired product.  I accidentally grilled my egg custard tarts, but the least said about that the better.