Re:There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014)
by NLips on Friday September 09, 2016 @05:04AM
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Surely it doesn't need to be a solution - it can just be a suspension? The difference between extra virgin olive oil and purer grades are that the purer grades are filtered, not (e.g.) distilled.
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Re:There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014)
by mack73 on Friday September 09, 2016 @08:59AM
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Extra means the oil contains no more than 0.8% of free oleic acid.
Virgin means the oil comes from a mechanical process, not a chemical one.
The purest grade extra virgin olive oil is the first cold pressed. It's neither filtered nor distilled. Refined olive oil however is filtered and also tasteless.
Re:There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014)
by NLips on Friday September 09, 2016 @09:10AM
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From the same page:
"The refining process removes colour, odour and flavour from the olive oil, and leaves behind a very pure form of olive oil that is tasteless, colourless and odourless and extremely low in free fatty acids"
I don't mean 'pure' in a good sense, just that it is a simple mixture.