Weird chemical reaction with dressing

[fifi]

Oh, great. Some sort of crystallization? I dunno. I'll have to PM the big guns. This is weird. Especially given the oil content. Stay tuned.

[Dave the Cook]

Are we clear on what happens to the oil?

thebaker: do you have a solid block that contains everything, or block of stuff that seems to be everything else, with oil floating on top?

Has anyone duplicated the "trick"? Another set of eyes is always helpful.

[elyse]

thebaker, this doesn't happen every time, right? What made these times different?

[fifi]

From the report here, this has happened twice. The difference is the addition of truffle oil. The amount of truffle oil is not specified but I have to assume that it is not a lot in proportion to the recipe given.

edit to add: Does anyone have a connection to McGee or any other food science luminary?

[thebaker]

YEs this happend only twice

the truffle oil part of the dressing was only for a special.

the truffle oil is not part of the base recipe for the dressing

the truffle oil was not measured, we just added some.

the dressing formed a solid block with some oil (not alot) left free.

[jhlurie]

This is still driving me crazy. Have we given up?

[tryska]

sounds like this needs to be replicated by an SSB with a stopwatch and time lapse photography tools.