lyndalou
Head Chef
I got some at TJ Maxx . How long do you think it keeps?
As noted, truffle oil doesn't contain real truffles. However, truffle salt does. It's sold at some gourmet shops or you can find it online. It's pretty expensive stuff, running around $25 for a 3-oz jar. It keeps for quite awhile, though.
I really like the salt. A little bit sprinkled on eggs or pasta adds a nice subtle truffle flavor, as opposed to the obnoxious smell and flavor of the oil.
...ingredient list: olive oil, black winter truffle aroma (Tuber Melanosporum Vitt). Whether that means my oil ever saw a truffle is probably best left up to lawyers.
It is basically "perfumed" oil, and garbage. It is an "aroma" mimicked by perfume, and infused with olive oil, no thanks. Like mentioned above, the only way to really insure it's quality, is to get truffles packed in oil, or, make it your self.."
Trader Joe's Truffle Oil, house brand, 8.5 oz/$8.59. Black or white. Ingredients; Italian extra virgin olive oil infused with black winter truffles (I'm reading the label). I prefer the black over the white. If they have it on the shelf.
But it's truffle botulism! Think of the obituary. "Wow!," people will think. "Offed by truffles! Pretty classy!" Like breaking your neck falling down the stairs at Buckingham Palace. Or falling out of a Rolls. Or stabbed to death by the world's finest chef after you sent the food back when you detected that the morels were slightly old.
I haven't found any applications for my "truffle oil" yet that were worth the purchase price (several dollars for a pretty small bottle).