White truffle oil anyone?

[Ash]

I saw this in the store today and I was wondering if anyone has used truffle oil in their hair and if it has any benefits. They had both black and white truffle oils and both are mixed with grapeseed oil.

[SurprisingWoman]

That would be a horrible waste of a very expensive, wonderful oil infused with truffles. A drizzle of the oil is wonderful for flavoring food, if it's real. (and sometimes if it's not)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle_(fungi)

[Flynn]

O.o Not cheap. Also probably very strong-smelling. I wouldn't, really.

[sweet*things]

It's amazing over pasta, but not sure I'd put it on my head.:D

[Roseate]

Yum! I'd just get some plain grapeseed oil for your hair, and save the delicious, expensive truffle oil to drizzle over your mushroom risotto and asparagus... now I'm hungry...

ETA: And yes, it smells! It literally smells like a wild boar (http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/24/garden/truffles-why-pigs-can-sniff-them-out.html), so I don't know if you really want to attract female pigs with your hair...

[longhairedfairy]

ETA: And yes, it smells! It literally smells like a wild boar (http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/24/garden/truffles-why-pigs-can-sniff-them-out.html), so I don't know if you really want to attract female pigs with your hair...
Do they really? :agape: Oh, my...

[Roseate]

Yep, they smell like wild boar pheromones. Now, why that is delicious, I don't know, but it is!

[Gulbahar]

Yep, they smell like wild boar pheromones. Now, why that is delicious, I don't know, but it is!
Well, not for everybody .... shudder:

[longhairedfairy]

I've never had them. I'm very (cautiously) curious.

[Renbirde]

Truffle oil REEKS. My biology teacher left a bottle of the stuff sitting on my desk (plus a tapeworm and an odd rock) during a lecture, and as a result I know almost nothing about the phylogeny of earthworms. ;)

Skip it. It's hideously expensive and won't give you any particular benefits. (Except, perhaps, a tribe of loving she-pigs, apparently... Not really a good thing to have following you around though...)

Unless you're going to some high society party and want to smell like freaking rich. Which, I admit, might be fun. *Ponders*

[ktani]

The scoop (truth) about truffle oil from the New York Times, 2007 (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/dining/16truf.html?_r=1), by a chef and restaurant owner. The aroma is artificial.

From page 1
"Most commercial truffle oils are concocted by mixing olive oil with one or more compounds like 2,4-dithiapentane .... that have been created in a laboratory; .... But, much as I did for years, chefs want to believe. Stories of sightings of natural truffle oil abound, like a gourmand’s answer to the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus. One chef told me in an excited, slightly conspiratorial tone that Jing Tio of Le Sanctuaire in Santa Monica, Calif., who sells high-quality specialty ingredients to chefs, mixed his own oil to order.
This seemed unlikely. When I asked Mr. Tio, he gave me a funny look. “Natural?” he said, rolling his eyes. “Nooo ...” (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/dining/16truf.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3)

From page 2
.... "Mr. L’Hommedieu’s recollection involved the late chef Jean-Louis Palladin, with whom he worked at Palladin, a Manhattan restaurant that is now closed. Returning from a trip out of town, Mr. Palladin was enraged to walk into the kitchen and find that in his absence bottles of truffle oil had cropped up everywhere. Grabbing two of them, he called the staff out to the alley behind the restaurant where the garbage was held. He hurled the oil at the side of the building, smashing the glass bottles against the wall. “It’s full of chemicals,” he screamed at his confused and frightened staff members, who scrambled back to the kitchen through the gathering scent of truffle oil mingled with the fetid air of the alley. “No more!” (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/dining/16truf.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2)

[Renbirde]

The scoop (truth) about truffle oil from the New York Times, 2007 (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/dining/16truf.html?_r=1), by a chef and restaurant owner. The aroma is artificial.

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The bottle I was messing with was olive oil that had a small piece of truffle in it. My teacher said that the truffle's scent was strong enough to make the whole bottle taste (and smell) like truffle. Is that unrealistic?

(What would they put on the ingedients list, I wonder?)

[ktani]

The bottle I was messing with was olive oil that had a small piece of truffle in it. My teacher said that the truffle's scent was strong enough to make the whole bottle taste (and smell) like truffle. Is that unrealistic?

(What would they put on the ingedients list, I wonder?)

From what I get from that article, they do sometimes put truffles in the olive oil but add articial aroma enhancers. I have never seen an ingredients list for truffle oil but I have tasted it on food.

[GlassEyes]

My guess would be that there's some fake truffle oil, and some real, and both are probably hideously expensive, with the real being more so.

I doubt that all the bottles are artificially enhanced though. I'm now hungry for pasta of some kind...

[ktani]

My guess would be that there's some fake truffle oil, and some real, and both are probably hideously expensive, with the real being more so.

I doubt that all the bottles are artificially enhanced though. I'm now hungry for pasta of some kind...

According to that article, there is no real truffle oil in the sense of one being pure and natural and not enhanced with chemicals. I tend to believe it.

[Ash]

Thanks, everyone. :) I think I will save my money. It sounds like it will really stink. :( This was the oil I saw: http://www.latourangelle.com/usa/products_detail.php?product=truffle-white. It is sad if truffle oil is full of chemicals because I really like this company's products and now I am wondering about the walnut oil I have used for a while. Pretty much everything I have learned about oils has been from here because I do not use oil in my cooking and all we use at work is olive oil.

[Flynn]

The bottle I was messing with was olive oil that had a small piece of truffle in it. My teacher said that the truffle's scent was strong enough to make the whole bottle taste (and smell) like truffle. Is that unrealistic?

(What would they put on the ingedients list, I wonder?)

YES. Yes it is. It may not have been, (probably wasn't, really) but my goodness it could have. Truffles smell STRONG.

[Gulbahar]

Thanks, everyone. :) I think I will save my money. It sounds like it will really stink. :( This was the oil I saw: http://www.latourangelle.com/usa/products_detail.php?product=truffle-white. It is sad if truffle oil is full of chemicals because I really like this company's products and now I am wondering about the walnut oil I have used for a while. Pretty much everything I have learned about oils has been from here because I do not use oil in my cooking and all we use at work is olive oil.
Walnut oil is fine if your hair likes it. But maybe not from that company because of the smell - they only seem to sell roasted walnut oil which of course smells of roasted nuts. Very delicious for salads but slightly strange for hair. ;)

[storytellerzero]

Yes, I would skip the mushroom infused oil for head application. I have found that even moderate smells on my head give me a headache. But then I am very sensitive to scents anyhow. Does anyone know if pumpkin oil is good for hair?

[Gulbahar]

Yes, I would skip the mushroom infused oil for head application. I have found that even moderate smells on my head give me a headache. But then I am very sensitive to scents anyhow. Does anyone know if pumpkin oil is good for hair?
Never tried it and never would. It is dark green, very thick and smells strongly of green pumpkin seeds. I love it over salad, but would find it to heavy and strong-smelling for my hair.

[ktani]

Their wording is very interesting.

"Just like the most prestigious perfumes, the white truffle aroma is very rare, expensive and difficult to source. Only a few companies master the art of producing the aroma". (http://www.latourangelle.com/usa/products_detail.php?product=truffle-white)

That does not sound pure and non artificial to me. They are being honest, if you know what they are referring to, having read the Article. No doubt the right balance of chemistry is needed.

From the Article
"Most commercial truffle oils are concocted by mixing olive oil with one or more compounds like 2,4-dithiapentane (the most prominent of the hundreds of aromatic molecules that make the flavor of white truffles so exciting)." (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/dining/16truf.html?_r=4&pagewanted=1)

The oil
"La Tourangelle White Truffle Oil begins with expeller-pressed Grapeseed oil, which is slowly infused with white truffle aroma following a 150-year-old French tradition." (http://www.latourangelle.com/usa/products_detail.php?product=truffle-white)

I think 150 years ago the oil did not smell as strong and todays's expectations of what the oil should smell like are different. So, some chemists use white truffles as a base and add the enhancers, that are chemical. The Article did not say that no white truffles (or black) were used in all of the oils, just that they are not used alone, and the author could not find one that was pure and natural.

[Flynn]

Walnut oil is fine if your hair likes it. But maybe not from that company because of the smell - they only seem to sell roasted walnut oil which of course smells of roasted nuts. Very delicious for salads but slightly strange for hair. ;)

Even unroasted smells really yummy! My hair likes it... but I find it very hard not to lick my fingers after applying it! *Laughs*

[Gulbahar]

Even unroasted smells really yummy! My hair likes it... but I find it very hard not to lick my fingers after applying it! *Laughs*
:p That's true! I never use it on my hair, though. I always eat it. (That reminds me: I _really_ have to go and buy some new small bottles of yummy kitchen oils......)

[Ash]

Yes, I would skip the mushroom infused oil for head application. I have found that even moderate smells on my head give me a headache. But then I am very sensitive to scents anyhow. Does anyone know if pumpkin oil is good for hair?

It really didn't do anything for mine, but I only tried it twice. I found the smell to be quite strong as well, although I actually liked it. I heard something about it being good for the skin and helping get rid of wrinkles though.



Walnut oil is fine if your hair likes it. But maybe not from that company because of the smell - they only seem to sell roasted walnut oil which of course smells of roasted nuts. Very delicious for salads but slightly strange for hair. ;)

I really like the smell for my hair. :D Then again I am a strange person.

[Flynn]

:p That's true! I never use it on my hair, though. I always eat it. (That reminds me: I _really_ have to go and buy some new small bottles of yummy kitchen oils......)

It's very nice and light, and I've been finding a lot of things come out a little heavy for my fine hair, which is why I decided to give it a shot. Works great, and mixes really nicely with AVG... but it makes me want to eat my hair. O.o

[Sashay]

I've never used it for conditioner, but at work we used to have White Truffle Macaroni and Cheese (A variety of white cheeses, not out of the box). It was delicious, but easy to overdo, a single drop would be enough for a large batch, so I can vouch for the strength. Too rich for me to eat a whole serving, but so good that it fit right in next to the filet mignon. Hehe, we all laughed when they said they were going to add mac'n'cheese to the dinner menu. Seems easy enough to try at home if you pick up a bottle.

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[tangocurl]

Yep, they smell like wild boar pheromones. Now, why that is delicious, I don't know, but it is!


Next time I'm at a trendy bar I will ask for the wild boar popcorn. :popcorn:

For real, though -- it's super intense, and if it is in your hair, I bet it will smell very strong for days!

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