Cheese TastingAim: To describe and taste 10 different types of cheese.
Procedure: 1. Download the excel document below and save it to your Food Technology File as "Your Name Cheese Tasting" Open it and fill it out following the instructions below.
2. Your teacher will arrange on plates the 10 different cheeses for tasting.
3. Mild cheeses will be tasted first. 4. Look carefully at the cheeses. 5. Note the colour of each cheese on your taste chart. 6. These words may help you to describe the colour: white, pale, clear, yellow, dark, light, cream, ivory, orange, blue, blue/green, metal. Or choose your own. 7. Describe the flavour or taste of the cheese. We taste food with our tongue. There are about 9000 taste buds on the tongue which identify four main tastes: sweet, bitter, sour, and salty (see diagram opposite). All other tastes are a mixture of these four. Some of the words you could use to describe flavour are: bitter, sweet, salty, sharp, peppery, delicate, fresh, strong, biting, mild, nutty. 8. Rate each cheese according to how much you liked or disliked it. To do this you can give points as below: Dislike a lot 1 point Dislike 2 points Neither like nor dislike 3 points Like 4 points Like a lot 5 points For example, if you like the cheese a lot you will give it 5 points, if you dislike it you will give it 2, and so on. Total the answers for the whole class on the board. The cheese with the highest score is the most popular cheese. 9. When you have completed the exercise answer these questions: • Discuss the possible reasons for these results. |
Example: Four different areas of the tongue respond to the four main tastes.
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