[Sca-cooks] Seasonal, Local Sweet Onions;

[Carol Smith]

for taste testing, you might try a very simple one:  can you smell Vick's 
Vapo Rub?  Most of us can, but there's a small percentage of the population 
who can't.  It was one of the tests used when I was first hired, many years 
ago.

Regards,
Brekke


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Vincent" <tom.vincent at yahoo.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:08 PM
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Seasonal, Local Sweet Onions;


> No way to objectively test yet they somehow 'know' that 1 in 50 have this 
> magical ability.  Sounds suspicious to me.
>
>   Duriel
>
> grizly <grizly at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> "Since there are no known chemical instruments available to evaluate the
> numerous flavor qualities of a sweet onion, researchers have to rely on
> trained taste testers. UGA researchers estimate only one in fifty people
> have the ability to provide the taste analysis required."
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