My first Umami Mushroom Ketchup +part 2+Final

[africanmeat]

It is my first try at making Umami .
this is from Heston Blumenthal ,i will do it step by step ,only in the end i will keep
some for my BBQ sauce .
i took 750 ML (25 oz) red wine vinegar
250 gr (9 oz) sugar ,
button mushroom 500 gr (18 oz)
boiled the vinegar and the sugar . as it boiling  pour it over the mushroom .
put it in the fridge for 24 hours .









see you in 24 hours.

[Pam Gould]

Looks great..boy you sure measure funny..LOL. Glad you converted for me. Pam Who is Heston Blumenthol?   .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.   

[Las Vegan Cajun]

Looking good already, can't wait to see the finished product.

[CDN Smoker]

No idea what your doing but I'm going to keep a close eye

[sparky]

oh boy is this going to be good. 

[sliding_billy]

Very cool.

[africanmeat]

Looks great..boy you sure measure funny..LOL. Glad you converted for me. Pam Who is Heston Blumenthol?   .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.

Heston Marc Blumenthal,  is an English celebrity chef and owner of The Fat Duck, a three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, which has been voted Best Restaurant in the UK and received a perfect score of 10/10 every year since 2007 by The Good Food Guide. He has also written many cookery books as well as doing televised cookery programs.

Blumenthal is a proponent of modern cooking; he opened his own research and development kitchen in early 2004. It could be said that he is a molecular gastronomist, though he disliked the term, believing it made the practice sound "complicated" and "elitist. He holds multiple honorary degrees in recognition of his scientific approach to cooking.

[africanmeat]

No idea what your doing but I'm going to keep a close eye

Umami a savory taste, is one of the five basic tastes (together with sweet, sour, bitter and salty).
A loanword from the Japanese  umami can be translated "pleasant savory taste".This particular writing was chosen by Professor Kikunae Ikeda from umai "delicious" and mi  "taste". The kanji are used for a more general sense of a food as delicious.
People taste umami through receptors for glutamate, commonly found in its salt form as the food additive monosodium glutamate (MSG)For that reason, scientists consider umami to be distinct from saltiness.

[SmokinKat]

Thank you for all that info Ahron!   Very interested to see how this turns out for you!

[Scallywag]

You sure got my interest... will be watching this one.

[HighOnSmoke]

Definitely have my attention Ahron! Can't wait to see the finished product.

[africanmeat]

The Mushrooms are pickling slowly in the fridge 
now is the time for the first step at the Umami Mushroom .
i take 1.2 kg (2.64 lb)
i cut them in the food processor .
i add 65 gr (2.3 oz) salt
i put it in a cloth to hang and i collect the juice .







See you tomorrow .

[Pam Gould]

Hurry up and wait..lol..hanging in there.  .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.

[Las Vegan Cajun]

Hurry up and wait..lol..hanging in there.  .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.

Now that's a familiar quote from my days in the Air Force.  LOL!!!

I'll be waiting to see how this turns out, looking good far. 

[africanmeat]

I finished the umami mushrooms .
from the mushrooms that i hanged i got 2 cups of mushrooms juice .
in a saucepan i put thin sliced  shallot 240 ml (8oz) of red wine ,
 120 (4oz) red wine vinegar , 1/2 tsp mace ,2 clove .and the mushroom juice.
i reduced it by 2/3 .
i  filter  it and thicken it with cornstarch .now i got mushroom Ketchup .a recipe  from the
 18 Century .
remeber the mushrooms that i left pickling now i mix few of them in ketchup .
now to the  Difficult task to explain the flavors .
1 the pickled mushrooms they are soft and firm with a Tingling taste from the wine vinegar .they taste great , i will put it on a italian salad with shavings of  Parmesan cheese .or on cold meats .

2 .i tasted the ketchup it got a salty taste and it leaves an unknown taste in your  mouth .
   I put it in a  spanish chorizo sandwich . BOOM .this sauce turned to be an  amplifier of flavors   .
  over the weekend i will try to do a burger or a steak with this sauce .
  thanks for your patience .