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laticíniode creme de ovos · sulfuroso · untuoso · mineral · amanteigado

Gema de ovo

on its own
0.0sour
1.0sweet
3.0savoury
0.0bitter
4.0umami
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1 of these 32 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

32 pairings for Gema de ovo.

Ruibarbo

classic

Custard. Sour needs fat and sugar arriving together, not one after the other.

Macarrão

classic

Fresh pasta is flour and yolk. The dough and the sauce are one ingredient.

Fat plus sulfur. The yolk is chemically the correct plate for it.

Durian

common

Sulfur and fat in both. Folded into custard it stops being a fruit entirely.

It curds like lemon but harder; a sea buckthorn custard sets faster and tastes wilder.

Raw yolk mounted into the pan juice coats the stems without heat.

Same texture, same iodine-custard direction. Spoon one onto the other.

Leite

common

Yolk protein sets at 82°C, casein never does. Past that you have sweet scrambled egg.

Fat carries aroma, and nothing carries truffle better than raw yolk.

Mustard stabilises the emulsion and supplies the bite the yolk lacks.

Brushed on the top only. Down the sides it welds the layers shut.

Natto

common

Fat coats the tongue first, so the beans arrive with the edge blunted.

Botarga

uncommon

Grated over a raw yolk: two fats, two amino bombs, one spoon.

Açafrão

uncommon

Two sources of yellow, one of aroma. The hay note lands hard in fat.

Morel

uncommon

Liaison at the end. Off the heat or the whole sauce splits into grain.

Garum

uncommon

Fat plus fermented salt makes an emulsion that needs no cheese to taste aged.

Cure the yolk in it. Salt draws water out, koji makes it taste aged.

Caviar

rare

Sieved yolk is the classical garnish. The fat rounds off the brine.

Lecithin from the yolk and from the bar, one fat between them. It sets into something uncanny.