Cooking with Volcano Vaporizer

Cooking with Volcano Vaporizer

As a culinary art and gastronomic pleasure, you can look at eating as interplay of olfactory and gustatory senses. That means the senses of smell and taste.

Smell often accounts for increasing or diminishing our appetite. You only need to recall the last time you suddenly felt the pangs of hunger after catching the aroma of a dish being cooked.  Here is where using vaporizing technology can be harnessed. Releasing the natural aroma and flavors of one of the major ingredients in the foods we eat adds to the gastronomic experience.

Vaporizing to Release Food Flavor and Aroma

Vaporizers are great kitchen aids for the sole purpose of releasing the food flavor and aroma that makes eating more pleasurable. 

The process is quite simple. We used the Volcano Vaporizer Classic as our vaporizer. Just about any dried ingredient can be vaporized such as spices, cocoa, lavender, onions, etc. You only need to modify the Volcano vaporizer’s valve to accept a heat-resistant hose directed to the food you want enhanced.

To operate one, you just set the vaporizer to the required temperature, put into the solid valve filling chamber the desired substance to be vaporized, turn on its fan which forces enough heated air through the substance and into the hose with the aroma.  This passes the desired flavor through the hose and into the dish, drink or dessert.

Infusing Flavor

Vaporization has a way of infusing added flavor to a drink or food. A tequila drink for instance can be enhanced with adding the subtle aroma of vaporized vanilla into it.  Deserts are the best candidate for this process.  There are quite a number of possibilities you can experiment on to see what natural substances can produce the right aroma to further add a different waft of flavorful scent to an existing pastry, cake or confection.

For instance, using the same vaporizing process above, we infused a closed box of peaches and cream desert with vaporized Tahitian vanilla.  The aroma clung on the desert components for more than a day so that when you open it, the vanilla aroma hits you first. 

Another infusion is made on an identical set of peaches and cream, this time using vaporized cloves.  It’s interesting to note how different aroma can influence the gastronomic perception even if the dessert is basically identical.

Expensive Enhancers

The Volcano Vaporizer is one expensive kitchen aid alright. But it’s a great food enhancer. You may want to look at other cheaper vaporizers to achieve the same end. But for sure, vaporizers can now be considered as gastronomic kitchen aids.

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