In article >,
"Giusi" > wrote:

> "Omelet" < ha scritto nel messaggio
> > "Giusi" > wrote:
>
> >>
> >> You CANNOT make truffle oil at home.
> >
> > Okay, how about infusing some into white vinegar? :-)
>
> What do you think would be left of the truffle perfume? If there were
> reasonable ways to preserve truffles, surely the Italians who have them over
> 1/3 of the country would do it? They now do dried ones. I'm not wasting my
> euro on them.
> I was hired by a Chinese firm some years back to develop recipes using their
> dried truffles. In the end I decided that the only way I could get them to
> taste like truffles was to drip some Italian truffle oil over the dish when
> it was done. I later read they are fed to livestock there. They were just
> trying to see if they could make more off them than the cows were willing to
> pay.

Ok.

So what's all the hype about? What makes truffles worth the
astronomical amount of money they charge for them? I've never eaten them.
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