Miracle Fruit I

We drugged ourselves, a dollar a pop, last night. Sara, Keely/Traves, Tammy, me. There's a lot of info out there on the interweb already, but I'll throw in my 2 cents. The tabs lasted about 1/2 hour for us. We were eating bread between tastings to provide a buffer of neutral food in the stomach, but it seemed like the bread hastened the demise of the effect, so I'd recommend eating normal food before, rather than during. We didn't go that crazy with food items, mostly we were doing a demo run for a larger party in the future. Anyways.

We had alot of citrus, which I zested, cause that's what I do. I'm drying the orange and lemon zest for cooking, and put the lime zest in with some gin to make limecello. 

Blood oranges, navel oranges, lemons, limes were all really sweet. Pears in lemon juice were a so so item, the pears were already good, and not enough lemon juice bonded to the cut surfaces to make a differenfce. I've been eating a gallon of yogurt a week for about 5 years, so I'm very familiar with the taste, it was pretty different, in a weird way. Kombucha from the co-op became much more drinkable. Pickled cocktail onions were very odd; the flavour was essentially totally masked, just the crunchy texture was left. Salsa became very, very sweet. Goat cheese became more cheesecake-like; I think everyone who tries miracle fruit has the same observation. Chocolate stout was changed a bit, but not that much. Vinegars still smelled nasty, but were drinkable; but just because you can, doesn't mean you should... The one thing I wouldn't really recommend is sorbet. I had made coconut milk/banana/lime sorbet, that was slightly sour, but basically pretty good. It was sweeter on miracle fruit, but you couldn't really eat anything else after, it became sour in comparison, so definitely save sorbet for the very end. 'Twas fun.

Ideas for next time: salt and vinegar potato chips, strawberries, ______