Discovery

With our time in the kitchen running down, things are coming together quickly. Tomorrow we will prepare our final two dishes to decide which one we will be serving to the sensory group. As you can imagine with a class our size, moving around the kitchen and cooking in a timely manner is an elegant dance to make sure we complete our task without hindering the other groups from the completion of their product as well. To make sure we have no issues we try to really manage our time and work on one or two things at one time to expedite our process. Having the biggest group, it has really enabled us to venture out and try products that otherwise would be difficult to complete in an hours’ time. Our sensory analysis occurs tomorrow, so we are unsure of all the underlying problems that we may have. However, from the group taste testing our chicken noodle product, it may have a texture that is unappealing to our consumer base. We also want to work on the presentation of the product to really enhance the senses of our customer. Concerning the tamale balls, our spiciness will be our main concern at the evaluation. For some not used to spicy traditional Mexican food, the spices may be a little much for them. It will be vital for us to find a range that gives us the right amount of spice but does not over power the taste buds. The quality of our chicken has been as good as anyone could ask for. When looking at the chicken you will find little to no difference in the appearance between the store bought chicken and the chicken that was raised and processed out of our farm. On the taste side of things, the chicken we processed at the farm has a fresher taste to me.

This picture shows Will Hamilton removing the skin from the thigh meat. The skin needs to be removed for both of our dishes simple because it will affect our desired texture.

In this picture Will, Drew, and Caroline look to identical the color of our product. This is important simply because we want to our product to have a uniform color. This scale allows that. We can also prepare 3 different colors and decide which is the most appealing.

Here is a grad student who dropped by to taste our product and gave us feed back

Overall our group is really working together on a very difficult product. We have been fortunate and not had many problems arise during this process. We are excited to see what our peers think of our product tomorrow.

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