QOTD #66

Flavor triangles/triads are an important tool in cooking. Do you use them? If so, what is your favorite combination?

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It's not exactly about triads per se, but I found Grant Achatz's video about "flavor bouncing" to be enlightening when trying to come up with the elements of a complex composed dish.Grant Achatz's video about "flavor bouncing"

But I'm usually not trying to put dishes with 8 or 15 ingredients into them, so triads are more useful to me in the context of everyday cooking. Something that can be helpful in extracting the most out of triads is presenting the same ingredient in multiple preparations (or using different varieties of the same ingredient).

Cheryl_71360

That was great, thanks for sharing.

tshewman

What Brandon said is precisely what I do. And apparently I have odd tastes. :-) That said, I would LOVE a CS course on the basics of triads and flavor compound(ing). When I was doing the harvard edx course, the discussion of molecular mathematics and combining had me understanding more about the math (which I'd also like to know more about), but the flavor compounds and the triads (and greater) would be an excellent addition as a course. IMHO. :-)

Brendan_Lee_56950

I used this video to make a bunch of mind maps with some of my favorite ingredients at the center. I use them for inspiration now and again. I use the mindnode software for Mac to do it. Pretty helpful.

borgech

Awesome responses so far! I love the flavor bouncing video from Grant Achatz.

douglas_bd

I love that flavor bouncing video...and have used it many times when developing dishes. I also have been known to cheat and use the flavor bible. Once Ive mapped out ingredients, I start thinking about how to use them together and bring different textures into the dish Some get crossed out, others are brought in. At the end, I usually have a pretty clear plan for execution.

Yaakov_Kahan_70158

https://www.foodpairing.com/en/home is great.

com-chefsteps

if you haven't played with Foodpairing.be, that's pretty much their whole schtick - but with a PCR to identify chemical compounds.

Brendan_Lee_56950

It's pretty cool but they're ultimately out to make money and I don't do this often enough to warrant the cost