Comments on: Winter Truffles: Pimp my scrambled egg

By: Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:33:49 +0000

I am so tired of seeing postings about how awful truffle oil is. Simply put, until you have tried Urbani Truffle Oil, you have simply been ingesting expensive olive oil. The difference in flavor, durability, and integrity is obvious to anyone who bothers to try.
Don’t take my word for it. Buy a bottle and find out for yourself

By: Pop-up truffles

Pop-up truffles — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:10:13 +0000

[...] The truffles will retail from $2.80 to $3.50 per gram and are packaged in glass jars. Ten grams should be plenty enough to pimp up your scrambled eggs. [...]

By: First truffle of the season

First truffle of the season — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:27:57 +0000

[...] With truffles it’s best to keep thing simple, especially if you are a home cook like me. First, I stored eggs in a container with the black gold and on Saturday morning we inhaled the truffle aroma of infused scrambled eggs. [...]

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:54:26 +0000

Carlo, I was at a dinner recently with heston Blumenthal’s scientist Dr Peter Barham. He said that many people can’t even smell the trufle aroma and women can smell it more than men so I’m not sure that the male pigs will be attracted to them. But obviously the more truffly smelling male pigs have a jolly old time. That’s a good point about the fertilisation of the truffles something to look at. But for now I’m rubbing a bit of truffle behind the ear – and keeping away from farms.

By: Carlo Toscaneda

Carlo Toscaneda — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:46:20 +0000

‘Traditionally truffles are sniffed out by female pigs because the truffle smell mimics a sexy pheromone excreted by male pigs.’ Truffle hounds need more training to detect the scent but are easier to restrain from eating the find. What interests me about this is to ask what evolutionary benefit the truffle gets from attracting female pigs to eat it. Is something of the truffle passed in the urine or faeces of the sow which helps fertilise more truffles? If so, pigs ought to be a third feature of the symbiosis between trees and truffles. Also, do the sows who detect and eat the truffles have a more successful relationship with boars? Is it that boars find the sows sexier (another evolutionary benefit)? Or is it that sows think truffles are better than sex?

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 30 May 2007 07:07:18 +0000

So that’s two customers. Paz, I’m retraining the dogs with Porcini.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Wed, 30 May 2007 01:26:20 +0000

If you can package ‘em quick enough, I’ll buy them before Neil can take his first chomp.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 29 May 2007 11:22:49 +0000

Well at least I’ll have my first customer.

By: neil

neil — Mon, 28 May 2007 23:44:10 +0000

Sorry mate, I’d eat all the profits.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 28 May 2007 23:40:39 +0000

Neil, I;m in there with you. Do you fancy going into business on this one? Last Porcini i bought in London cost $25.