Earthy, sometimes it means a little like a handful of nice rich garden soil smells, as in the taste of Ginseng, or sorrel, usually it refers to a complicated vegetable flavor that has no distinct sweet/salty/sour/bitter highlights, like a morel mushroom sauce. Sometimes it also refers to the general character of a dish, something simple, healthy, and full of vegetable flavors and fiber, like a lentil mushroom casserole.
Nutty usually refers to a vague nut like quality, like the smell of toasting almonds, backed up with a smack of bitterness, sometimes a lot of bitterness. I avoid things described as 'nutty', especially if they are proffered by vegans.
Both sometimes mean;'this tastes like ass, but I'm trying to be civilized'
i thought it was umame or however you spell. It's not, but it's related. if anyone can clarify I'd like it too. When i Think Earthy I think: smoked meats, nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, turmeric, cloves, star anise. I think what they all have in common is they need a sweet meet with a compadre? Like, you can meet any ingrediant in that list with fruit, honey, da da lda . i shuld stop talking im drunk. But i love teh foods.
I wish yall could all have had that Jerk chx i made last yr in competition. whooo. thats earthy.
Got a question for culinary overlord: What do you think "woody" means?
In relation to wine, woody usually means the level of "oak" flavor inherited by the wine during aging. It could also apply to a fibrous and chewy texture, usually undesirable, like shitake mushroom stems, or the center part of a leek that is past it's prime.
Culinary terms have a lot of ambiguity, they often just mean what the most obvious meaning is in the context they are used. I have some nice atulfo mangos in the fridge that I would describe as "pine perfumed" (they have a strong and pleasant pine odor), and "buttery" (the flesh is soft but firm and even)
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This being OI I'm sure the context is about food, most likely wine.
I don't think it describes a "dirt" taste as such, To me its hard to explain.
Nutty usually refers to a vague nut like quality, like the smell of toasting almonds, backed up with a smack of bitterness, sometimes a lot of bitterness. I avoid things described as 'nutty', especially if they are proffered by vegans.
Both sometimes mean;'this tastes like ass, but I'm trying to be civilized'
C/O
"disambiguation 'r' us"
chew on a piece of bark or root. It is woody texturally and flavor-wise
I wish yall could all have had that Jerk chx i made last yr in competition. whooo. thats earthy.
In relation to wine, woody usually means the level of "oak" flavor inherited by the wine during aging. It could also apply to a fibrous and chewy texture, usually undesirable, like shitake mushroom stems, or the center part of a leek that is past it's prime.
Culinary terms have a lot of ambiguity, they often just mean what the most obvious meaning is in the context they are used. I have some nice atulfo mangos in the fridge that I would describe as "pine perfumed" (they have a strong and pleasant pine odor), and "buttery" (the flesh is soft but firm and even)
C/O
"it means wood like, silly"