Does a cedar kitchen utensil impart a cedar flavor to food?
There comes a time in everyone's life when they hear a question, and not knowing the answer to the question, they go on a quest to find an answer to the mysterious query.
Such an instance occured on a chilled February afternoon under a canopy of pine and cedar. I was visiting a buddy, and he was crafting a hella sweet spatula from a piece of home harvested cedar. Since there were a few pieces of cedar kicking around, I decided to try my hand at crafting a kitchen utensil. With cedar kitchen utensils on everyone's mind, the question was eventually asked: Does a cedar spatula (or spoon) impart a cedar flavor to food during cooking?
Although I gave up on crafting a utensil after a few carving twists of a knife, the desire to answer the question still burned within. I needed to know, and there was only one way to find the answer; run an experiment … for Science!
For Science!
Yea, that's as far as I got with my cromnipulently crappy creative
kitchen carving craftsmanship.
Fortunately, craftmanship isn't a requirement for my experiment.
#SinistraPorVida
Not only did I create an amazingly ambisinister kitchen tool,
I also made up the word 'cromnipulent'.
Fire up a cast iron ...for Science!
Chicken, broccoli, cabbage stir fry? Don't mind if I do!
Blessed by His noodly appendage
R'amen
From what I could tell, this was simply delicious ramen. If there were any cedar flavors added to the meal, I either didn't notice, or the flavor addition was too majestic for me to comprehend.
One more time ...for Science!
Hot damn, that was a meal worth repeating, and uh... I repeated the experiment
the next day ...for Science!
During neither meal did I get even the slightest hint of cedar. Based on my research, I'm going to say "No, cedar utensils do not impart a cedar flavor". That being said, it wouldn't hurt to do a bit more research; some tasty delicious research. Om nom nom :)