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Blind Taste Test
Mar. 8th, 2021 10:27 amMy primary human is diabetic and has been having trouble with her sugar free baking recently. She thought it might be because she was using a different brand of Stevia to sweeten the cookies. So, she bought some of the old brand she used previously and asked me to help her with a blind taste test! The first challenge was measuring out the ingredients, as the dish on the scales was rather high up for such a small bear:
I managed to get everything in the mixing bowl, but it turned out that baking is quite hard work:
The first batch came out of the oven looking and smelling lovely:
And the second batch looked pretty much exactly the same, which is what we were hoping for:
We put each batch in a separate box with a label to denote where the Stevia had come from:
Then I banished my primary human from the kitchen and enlisted my secondary human to assist with the complicated bit - for science!
We separated out several samples from each batch, labelled them with codes on the inside to identify the batch and numbers on the outside to identify the individual sample:
Then we invited my primary human back in to taste the results. She tasted a bite of each of the eight cookies we'd selected and wrote down her reactions:
It turned out that the two cookies my primary human selected as tasting best were one from each batch! And the ones she identified as tasting similarly bad were spread across both batches too!
So, our scientific analysis shows that my primary human cannot taste the difference between cookies baked with the two different brands of Stevia, and that if she thinks there are differences she will fabricate them in her head and then assign them arbitrarily across cookies from different batches!
This proves that humans are not very discerning creatures. It also means there is nothing wrong with any of the cookies and we now have way more than we can possibly eat.
I managed to get everything in the mixing bowl, but it turned out that baking is quite hard work:
The first batch came out of the oven looking and smelling lovely:
And the second batch looked pretty much exactly the same, which is what we were hoping for:
We put each batch in a separate box with a label to denote where the Stevia had come from:
Then I banished my primary human from the kitchen and enlisted my secondary human to assist with the complicated bit - for science!
We separated out several samples from each batch, labelled them with codes on the inside to identify the batch and numbers on the outside to identify the individual sample:
Then we invited my primary human back in to taste the results. She tasted a bite of each of the eight cookies we'd selected and wrote down her reactions:
It turned out that the two cookies my primary human selected as tasting best were one from each batch! And the ones she identified as tasting similarly bad were spread across both batches too!
So, our scientific analysis shows that my primary human cannot taste the difference between cookies baked with the two different brands of Stevia, and that if she thinks there are differences she will fabricate them in her head and then assign them arbitrarily across cookies from different batches!
This proves that humans are not very discerning creatures. It also means there is nothing wrong with any of the cookies and we now have way more than we can possibly eat.
