Truffle oil

[Shoutymomma]

Gifted at xmas, I opened a bottle of white truffle oil yesterday.

It smelled like a gas leak. Can this be normal?

Probably. It’s absolutely rank stuff, bleugh. Nasty. Yeuch...

To me truffle oil smells just like garlic.

It should be lovely - intense mushroomy smell & flavour.
I suggest you upend the bottled on your finger & taste it.
Do check the date; it lasts well beyond any Use By or BBE, but won't last forever.

Noooooo. Not lovely. Horrid. Smells like dirt to me... I can’t stand even fresh ones.

Hmm, it is an acquired taste and easily overpowering. It might not be off!

Well I love mushrooms and loved the truffle I once tasted. This smelt like the devils gusset.

Maybe the oil has gone a bit cacky?

We had truffle oil in a gousto meal the other day, DH said it tasted and smelled like gas. I thought it was delicious!

Maybe it’s like brussel sprouts. I tried some on DS when he was little and he still occasionally says how awful it was (my logic was giving him a taste of everything so he could decide for himself).

Truffle oil is the emperor's new clothes after he's been wearing them for a week and running 20k every day. Smells like mud and tastes like feet.

Ditto caviar, oysters, lobster... my parents used to try us on so many thinks as kids/teens and I’m not shy to say - bleugh!

Delicious (assuming it's not gone cacky) Do a mushroom risotto and add a tiny drizzle in at the end before topping with fresh Parmesan....

Don’t do it! It’s the devils spit! It will ruin your whole meal!

Use in extremely small quantities. My favourite lunch is cold pasta with a slow cooked, very garlicky tomato sauce, loads of fresh basil and black pepper and a tiny drizzle of truffle oil.

I had exactly the same experience! The smell was so disgusting that I had to throw it out. Have wondered ever since whether it was supposed to smell like that!

God I hate truffle... ruins everything