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BLACK TRUFFLE

So about 5 days ago a good friend of mine gave me a fresh black truffle (about 2 ounces) and besides shaving it onto things I have no idea what to do with this thing. Any practical suggestions will help greatly. Please help me use this truffle before it goes bad thank you.

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Truffle: 1. An underground fungus with a rich earthy taste, usually found by special pigs and are evensive as fk
2. Military term for underground nuke placed for future use.

Most likely the only way you'll find truffles is in oil as a fragrance booster as getting your hands on the real deal is hard unless you are familiar with a local harvester(as is my case).

The flavour is one of the kinds that is pretty unique; very strong earthy style but its a blunt kind of flavour, if a truffles flavour was music, then it has maxxed out the "bass". not everyone likes it but it is undeniably a new sensation which is valued regardless.

this "value" however pales in comparrison to its price tag. some chefs (especially french) will happily pay 1200$ a pound for the little things, hence why some refer to them as "black diamonds" (although theyre are meny variaties of truffle, black is the most common.)

If you want a few examples of how they are used, the cooking show "iron Chef" (Japan) had a truffle episode.