Flavor Profiles?

Forkin Pork · Posted: Sep 03 2012 Post subject: Flavor Profiles?

I need to make some big changes to my chicken, mostly with the texture, but I think I have that part under control and I will practice.
But what about flavor, I was wondering how receptive judges are to different flavors?
Meaning ... Asian flavors ... Jamacian .. etc?
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SoEzzy · Posted: Sep 04 2012 Post subject:

The advice I was given by a senior KCBS instructor was keep it down the middle of the road to appeal to the broadest flavor profile of the greatest number of judges.

Sweet or not so sweet, spicy but not too spicy, if you hit on a singular profile Asian or Jamaican, you are cutting down on the numbers.

Of course if you are cooking for Asian or Jamaican judges your scores may suffer... from not having the correct profile for them either! Wink

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Forkin Pork · Posted: Sep 04 2012 Post subject:

That makes good sense, what I was thinking about was Asian but since my chicken scored avg 7, I think I might try just a tweek of Asian and see how I score then.
Thanks
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QTEX · Newbie Joined: 23 Jan 2012 Posts: 84

SoEzzy'z advice is spot on, if you spent some time tasting the winning boxes you would be surprised at some of the winning entries flavor profile. Appealing to a wide range of palettes will get you in the winners podium
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Forkin Pork · Posted: Sep 06 2012 Post subject:

No I hear what you guys are saying and it does make sense.
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