727: Cooking by Feel with Vivian Howard & Nik Sharma
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
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The Bitterness in Olive Oil
The bitterness in olive oil comes from the fenals, which are known to be bitter molecules. When you put it with water, a it starts to become much more prominent to our taste buds. So if you're making iole mayonnaise, or even just a simple vinegrette, if you're using olive oil and vinegar You'll taste the bitterness from the oil. And so what i found out was that people like david levewitz, one of my favourite pastryar shafts and authors, he was boiling his oranges with water before he made marmalade. As is a lot of people don't like marmalade due to the bitterness. That gave me my first cool
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