I might be bad at tasting milk

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So maybe not horrible, but we did a couple different tastings at work and I failed. Luckily we are working on it.  

First we did a sensory of odd tasting milks, or milks that were purposely changed to see if we could taste the salty, the sweet or the moldy taste (that was disgusting). I think it was 10 different flavors that they walked us through, and then they gave us some blind tasters and a control to see if we could tell if anything was wrong with the milk. While I didn’t get to see my how well I did for this one, I had a taste of a salty milk, and then the three I tasted after were all salty as well. I don’t know if that’s because they were or because the salty taste was just so strong . 



We then did a sensory tasting last week to see which of the milks made in house each of us could identify, five white and five chocolate. 

Let’s start off with, before I started working my new job I did not drink a lot of milk, it was usually in my cereal, for a recipe or my in my tea. Now I have so much milk I don’t know what to do with it.

The white milk was a little easier, or at least easier to distinguish vanilla from plain, I was even able to distinguish 2% from whole milk, but that’s as far as it went.  The sweeter milk, versus the more nutritional versus the higher protein I couldn’t tell, and while they said not to guess I wasn’t going to sit there for twenty minutes sipping milk until I got it. So of course I guessed. 

The chocolate, well there was no hope, how some of my coworkers did it I don’t know. Well, maybe they actually drink the milk, or drink it a little more frequently to know one has a stronger taste or the sweeter one is clearly what they are trying to advertise to kids. Chocolate I failed, I’m not even sure I got one right there, although this was all guessing and I forgot about one of the flavors we made so one guess was written down twice. We make at least five differently types of chocolate milk, learned something new that I didn’t know I knew. 

This second sensory is going to be a couple months long.  So the failure and horrible guesses are okay, a baseline was made, and now all I can do is improve.  Now I’m drinking the milk I bring home by itself and trying to find the distinguishing features of the milk which one might be a little more bitter or be sweeter then the original.   Here is to hoping I am better in a couple months. 

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