Aroma Fork Adds Scents to Your Food

aroma fork Aroma Fork Adds Scents to Your Food
Imagine if you could not only taste your food but smell it too. Wait, I’m being told that this already happens? Well then what if you could taste your food but smell something from your fork that wasn’t your food at all? Well that can happen with the Aroma Fork. This odd contraption adds an absorbent scent pad to an ordinary fork.
aroma fork2 Aroma Fork Adds Scents to Your Food
Like a bizarre parlor trick, the fork tricks your nose into smelling one thing even while you’re eating another. Maybe they can make everything taste like french fries or bacon please?! Apparently those aren’t options. But there are 24 different oils that you can drop onto the scent pad to enhance your food’s flavor.
aroma fork set Aroma Fork Adds Scents to Your Food
The flavors come in a few different categories:

3 “Beans” Aromas – Chocolate, Coffee, Vanilla
4 “Fruits” Aromas – Banana, Lychee, Passion Fruit, Strawberry
3 “Herbs” Aromas – Basil, Cilantro, Mint
4 “Spices” Aromas – Cinnamon, Ginger, Jalapeno, Wasabi
4 “Umami” Aromas – Butter, Olive Oil, Smoke and Truffle
3 Misc. Aromas – Bubble Gum, Black Forest Cake, Dill Pickle

Supposedly while you taste a complimentary food the scent from the Aroma Fork wafts up into your nose and hits the back of your throat at the same time, tricking your brain into tasting a combination of the two. A flavor innovation or just a fun trick for your less than sober friends?

Aroma Fork Adds Scents to Your Food
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Bird Ice Cream Flavors Will Make Your Taste Buds Go Cuckoo

These unusual ice cream flavors were unveiled by at the Small Bird Expo in Osaka, Japan by Torimi Cafe: sparrow, parakeet, and cockateil. Sounds exotic, doesn’t it?

Bird Flavored Ice Cream

Before you wrinkle your nose in disgust, note that the ice cream wasn’t made with these actual birds as the ingredients. Instead, the ice cream is actually made using the type of food that the birds eat. The sparrow-flavored ice cream is flavored with grains and marshmallow; the parakeet ice cream has honey and apple thrown into the mix; while the cockatiel ice cream contains pumpkin and sunflower seeds mixed in.

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As for the taste, Torimi Cafe describes the sparrow ice cream as giving you “the feeling of pressing the breast of a java sparrow into your mouth.” Parakeet apparently feels like “eating some vanilla ice cream in one hand and then taking a whiff of a parakeet in your other hand,” while cockatiel is like when “you’re sleeping with your mouth open and your cockatiel runs over your face and gets its leg in your mouth.”

I don’t think those descriptions sound particularly appetizing, although they are quite fun to read.

[via Incredible Things]

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The Spummy is the future of flavor creation that uses nano-technology to create edible foam. There are endless possibilities to the flavors that can be spun into foam and the combinations can ignite any gourmet chef’s fantasy! Inspired by Ferran Adrià, the inventor of flavored foam, which helped win him ‘Restaurant of the Year’, four years in a row, Spummy brings home the possibility of dishing out treats are exotic and worthy of praise!

Spummy is a 2012 Electrolux Design Lab Top Ten finalist entry.

Designer: Alexandre de Bastiani

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