gelatin and taste.

[Michaeltheonion]

I have been putting things in jelly a lot lately, theres not much that don’t want to gelatanize. I have been experimenting with pectin, agar and gelatin. I recently put some very bitter butter scotch ( the way it should be) into gelatin and Agar. I noticed that after a tasting of both, they had been dulled. I don’t think that I used more than necessary to bring them to a proper consistency.Also when I heated the agar jelly up to it really lost most of its flavour. Can any one shed some light on why Gelatin affects taste?

I hope theres not already a whole fourm devoted to this.

Thanks.

Michael.

[Qwerty]

What did you heat that lost it's taste? Sometimes, in the cases of fruit juice, veg. juice, etc, then heat kind of destroys the flavor a bit.

It also, IMO, depends on what kind of gelatin you use. I've never tried agar agar before, but I think that powdered gelatin definately has a taste to it, I find that the sheet gelatin is much more pure for cooking.