What is the quality of a spice?
a spice is a perfume that we will use in the kitchen. She will put herself to music, alone or with several other spices in your culinary achievements. He’s a taste of taste. Only a few will bring spice ( spicy or spiced? )
It is easily concluded that the quality of a spice is therefore defined by its organoleptic qualities. Those that affect senses: taste, flavor, smell. A quality spice is a spice that brings taste, power with an aromatic complexity similar to a perfume with its notes of hearts and backgrounds.
So how do you know if the spice you are going to buy and the one that will really give you taste?
You must banish powdered spices preserved in pots (or worse in transparent plastic sachets). Indeed, the air present in the pot, the light (if the pot is transparent), the humidity, the successive openings will only alter your spices. They will tend to a unique, tasteless and poor quality taste. We will end up overdose or even waste them by throwing them.
A spice pot sometimes keeps several years in his closet; Would you imagine getting good coffee if you keep it powder for a year in a glass jar? No. Amazing we do it for our spices. A spice will give all its power if it is moud at the last moment.
You can choose powdered spices, only if it is entirely protected in a container called total barrier (not allowing air or humidity to pass). Our berlingots are thus made. In addition, the version is performed just before packaging, so you have a spice as if you come from grind.
Otherwise, only take raw spices from which you will mold each use. You will have all the original perfumes of it, taste, power, real aromatic complexity.
How to buy quality spices on the internet?
on the internet it is delicate to choose your spices without being able to see them, feel them, touch them.
A fundamental point providing you with proof of the quality of it is its sourcing, how is it selected.
Where does she come from? Is traceability total? Do you offer the geographic origin of the producer region?
choose only a site that offers spices whose sourcing is ensured directly by the site in question. Where each of the producers, its location, their work is clearly explained. It is an undeniable guarantee of quality.
For spice mixtures (curry, four spices, etc.) also check who does it. Does the seller make his mixtures himself? Or is it supplied directly to a third party? It is an additional index of a job well done or not.
Containers are also a good indicator, check that they best protect the spice.
Finally a good proverb is valid for spices also: the cheap is always too expensive. Cheap, you will put more, for lack of taste.
How to buy quality spices in store?
You will not find quality spices only in distribution specialized in the world of delicatessen. (Fine grocery store, cheese dairy, butcher, wine merchants, high -end primeurs). Spices in large and average, conventional or organic surface offer medium or even low spices.
How to buy quality spices on a trip?
don't buy powdered spices in your travels! Spices are undeniable are often one of the memories of travel. They are present on exotic markets where their colors make the sellers' stalls shine. Absolutely flee these stalls! I hear the dream and the memories that you will have later, but these spices the majority of the time are of poor quality. Look for these spices in raw, whole and non -ground format.
Exoticism is sometimes enough to justify the presence of spices on the markets which however do not even grow in the country you visit.
Mettle carefully if the spice that you are offered pushes in the region or the country you visit!
Good day,
max Daumin
Epices Max Daumin
or 2017-2018 silver 2020-2021 bronze 2019 | National grocery trophy
Artisan producer of the Culinary College of France 2021
