What It's Like To Be Paid To Taste Food
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2018
- Before products hit grocery store shelves, they are tasted, touched, and smelled by sensory evaluators first. You may know them more informally as taste testers, but sensory evaluators do so much more than taste food. They test everything from fabrics to fragrances to pizza.
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Following is a transcript of the video:
Have you ever wondered - what would it be like to taste food for a living? Well, these people do. They're called Sensory Evaluators. You might call them taste testers, but they're so much more than that!
Gail Vance Civille: My name is Gail Vance Civille. I am the founder, owner, and president of Sensory Spectrum and I have been in the sensory business for over 50 years. You do the math.
Sensory evaluators are trained for over 100 hours - more on that later. They evaluate the texture, flavor, or fragrance of a product. From toilet paper to chocolate to cheese, they test it all. Why do sensory evaluators do what they do?
Gail Vance Civille: Very often our job is to look at prototypes with some ingredients substituted so that we can tell the product developers, “Yes you are safe making this in the place of your current product and still having the same sensory properties.”
There's a whole host of reasons why a product might change. Like swapping out an ingredient for something cheaper or healthier. Take, for instance, Kraft Mac & Cheese. Remember when they changed to all-natural ingredients? No preservatives or artificial dyes? But the flavor stayed the same. Boom! Thank your sensory evaluators.
Gail Vance Civille: The role of sensory evaluation is to stand at the shoulder or next to the product developer and say, “If you have a charge to make a new product, to make an improved product, to make an ingredient substitution, I am here as your ally and your cohort to tell you whether or not you succeeded. Were you able to maintain the appearance, the flavor and the texture of that product so that you are, you have achieved what you set out to do. That is my job. I stand there and say, “You know what, this is very very close. Or it’s spot on, I think you should move forward with it.”
So How would Gail describe cheese?
Gail Vance Civille: Cheese. There’s either sheep cow or goat dairy. So there's milk and then there's milk fat. And then there are the fermented notes that are in the milk. So let's take cheddar cheese, which is a cow milk cheese that has milky notes, milk fat notes, nutty notes, skunky notes, sometimes fecal - or as we like to describe the technical term poop - and it actually belongs there. When you have farmhouse cheddar cheeses from England or Scotland or Wales or some places in Australia, you will have a fecal note that belongs there and then you also will have potentially some fruity notes as well. And salty, sweet, sour, and bitter. And then you have all the textures which is the hardness and the melt and the chewiness or cohesiveness and how fast it disappears in your mouth and whether or not it leaves a fatty film.
To evaluate a new or altered product, they gather a panel. Each panelist is handed a sample - in this case, pasta sauce. They'll taste the sauce and evaluate its flavor, texture, and smell. Then they rate each attribute on a scale. There's an entire book of terms to describe different foods. Gail wrote it.
How do these panelists identify how salty or sweet something is? During training, they're exposed to different levels of flavor. A 2 Salt is very mildly salty. While a 20 Salt is closer to ocean water, and so on. Panelists learn these until they're second nature.
Gail Vance Civille: The whole idea of being a great panelist is to never think about what you're doing. Just do it. Like a hockey goalie, just catch the puck. You're no longer mentally processing. You’re doing this - when I taste I literally feel like the sample goes into my mouth and then the sample tells me about itself.
How has this training affected sensory evaluators in their daily lives?
Gail Vance Civille: I'm not a normal consumer. I am not normal. I am very picky. If I'm in a restaurant where a lot of people are wearing fragrance I will not enjoy it. If I'm in a place that still allows smoking, and somebody is smoking nearby me I will not be having a good time. So it has jaded me or poisoned me or corrupted me - use whatever word you choose - to being really obsessively picky about what I'm eating, where I'm eating, and when I'm eating.
For better or worse, actually tasting what you eat may be a good thing. - Věda a technologie
My food tasting skills :
"This tastes good"
"This tastes bad"
_Yeah that's pretty much it._
Hahaha same here😂😂
Me too XD
So simple and effective
Same but one of mine is
“Mehh it’s ok I guess”
U again
My cousin's wife has THIS job for pepsi. It's much harder than you think, they have to tell the difference between the taste of pepsi made with sugar and some other sweetener, levels of ratio of sweetener to acid, whether she can detect if there are chlorine notes, or maybe a slight rusty taste, so that they can know if the whole batch is contaminated or etc.
To prepare for the tasting, you have to eat NOTHING 2 hours before the tasting. The is to ensure that your mouth has been "cleansed" or your mouth is at the optimal/normal state to detect other flavors with no other coinciding ones.
You can't brush your teeth either, since that gives your mouth other flavors and toothpaste has a chemica that nulls sweet notes in your tongue which in turn affects the taste test.
The quality of the RELEASED batch depends on your evaluation.
_also she can tell whether you gave her pepsi or coke_
Girly Nerd wow
DAMN THATS CRAZY NOW U JUST RUINED THIS FOR MY FAT ASS
Dang it what a tricky wife u have, I always trick my papa by buying her pepsi and saying it was coca cola!
Pretty sure anyone can tell whether it is pepsi or coke
Mr. Doggie goddangit, to me pepsi and coke taste the same-
“From toilet paper to chocolate”
So they eat toilet paper ? Lmao done
I’m crying in a corner While i count my money I see you everywhere
Angie And Emma Gamed
A true hustler is also
everywhere and no where🤱🏽
I’m crying in a corner While i count my money I am sure they wipe their asses with them. Or they just sit there and feel it all day.
Miss B
I still find it a weird job boring I’d say
Meh I guess they are necessary 🤷🏼♂️
I’m crying in a corner While i count my money true
It hurts seeing other people live out your dream
Give us a call if you're in the NJ area! :)
My dream was to eat good food not food that tastes like a skunk!?
@@sensoryspectrum Do you have any locations near Atlanta Ga?
My mom said I could become a food taster since I am a foodie
Teacher:
What do you wanna be when you grow up?
Me:
Haha
When I grow up I'll have a job where I eat food that tastes skunky and fecal
Every 6 yr old ever
I thought this was gonna be about the girls in INSIDER videos, eating stuff.
Krisandra Pereira same
Krisandra Pereira dem same
NAH She's busy eating that OCEANCOCK or whatever, LUL
Krisandra Pereira same
i thought this was a video from Great Big Story lmao
Looks like something they would do
Same!!
Mm yes I would like to eat toilet paper
Tastes like fibery grass
Nothing but respect to such dedication
Oh my god I never want to eat cheddar cheese again 😳
i'm amazed with this, cause i never think that there's another taste in such a food
I’ve done consumer panels with them , they are pretty fun. You just need to sign up
A super taster and fact super sensitive and picky about everything especially my food I would love this as a job. I think this would be a great start while I'm polishing my writing so maybe I can get a job as a food critic which would be awesome. I've been obsessed with food since I was young I love to eat it I love to cook it and educated within medical field across several cleans and in fitness and nutrition for 25yrs.
I've done taste tests several times before. So fun. Sometimes weird
Caption: What it's like to be paid to taste food
Me: heaven😇
It's Free to Subscribe $10 to $50 paid to taste food 🥘
So can she give us some good restaurant recommendations or not?
Yes, where do you live?
@@sensoryspectrum lol I think it was meant as a joke
@@rowlet342 We still like to help when we can! :)
So you're telling me that these people changed my Trix cereal??
I would luv a job to taste or try items improving or disapproving items they work smart not hard in life luv it !
I’d love this job!
Have they tried Tide Pods?
Justin Gatlin dude it’s a joke
Good one😂
"I'm not normal" me too sis, me too
I like it, how she keep blinking her eyes.
I have a friend who also does the same with her eyes.
I did this in when I was in high school on the weekend got paid $ 25 took about a hour to do it
Why are those people so old? It's a scientific fact that young people have a better sense of taste, that means that old people need more salt, sugar etc. to be satisfied with the taste.
Wait that must be why sold food is so unhealthy!
perfectly imperfect they get trained... you’re so dumb. Also, they don’t judge the healthiness of the product, the company does. They just taste it
Ward Zoubi I know they get trained, but it doesn't take 30 years for sure. And I never said they judge the healthiness of the food.
perfectly imperfect I would get it’s because quite a bit of children are picky and don’t like this, don’t like that, whereas adults aren’t as picky.
Pusheenicorn Nguyen Of course children aren't supposed to test food xD I was talking about 25-35 years old
perfectly imperfect you never said that but on the other hand you’re blaming them for having unhealthy food..
Where do I apply ? I’m highly experienced
So where’s the application link🤔
One of The best job.
This is something else I never knew insider will do a video about this, where’s the food videos insider
I totally get what grandma is saying here. I don't like people smoking while I'm eating
This is my dream job for now
this is now my dream job
So they get paid to eat while I have to pay to eat
Have they tried those new Tide Pods yellow flavor? Mmm yummy 😋
The cheese includes also boomp
very gooooooooooooooooooooood thanks
Can you guys please do a video on Studio C. They are a HILARIOUS comedy group 😆😆😆
Seriously... you need to do a video on them
Expensive tongues!
Mine is pretty average, In comparison 😅
woah 🤥
This seems like a fun job
Happy,i would be happy.
Did anyone else try to do this with the food they were eating
So I pretty much eat and get money? Lol.. sign me up 😂
Y'all hiring?! 😅😋 I'm interested
if i worked in this job since i was born i would be a billioner because i do it 24/7
I want to try this job
I need this job
need this job
I wanna be one of These I love food and studying food
Yea nah. That kraft Mac n cheese was disgusting when they changed it. So many ppl complained they changed it back
I need this job...
This seems to be my suitable job
Where did they buy those cups
Was NOT expecting the word fecal to be in this video
Well this is a job I would want to have now 😆😆
where can i sign up?
I guess these are the people responsible for the flavor of Tide Pods! 😅
I just want to work for Insider Food
The flavour of kraft mac and cheese most certainly changed havent had it since
Ok..
2:23 "Sometimes fecal or as we like to describe with the technical term.....poo" LOL its as technical as it gets
This is my dream job ❤😂😂
anyone knows the name of the bgm they use?
How can I join there..... I only wanted to join so i can eat food and get paid at the same time..
They didn’t do too good on hidden valley ranch🤷🏾♀️
where do i sign up? i eat for a living lol.
So cool
What is an earthy flavor?
earlayy!!!!
This reminds me of Shokugeki no Souma, Erina the God Tongue
all?
This would be the best job. EVER.
Dream job af
Does this remind anybody else of Great Big Story videos?
This will be my job
Fecal note?
Super
This what I call Heaven on earth . I would love to have this job .
Yeah I'd love to tell people "it tastes fecal"
Sign me up lady !
I have a geographic tongue, so my sense of taste is more intense than the average person.
no wonder my parents say that i eat all the tolet paper
how can i get a job there?
Oh I just like their job
"From toilet paper to chocolate"
Meh: Does that actually taste good? :OOOO
I wish that's my job
So...how did oatmeal cookies pass ?
I'd lie about mostly not tasting anything so free money lmfao
I can’t think of cheddar the same😵😵😔😔
nakiri?
nakiri erina in food wars be like:
Dream job
In soma anime. Nakiri have god tongues. She can taste and imaginate that flavor
Wish i could get that job... BUT I'M PICKY!!
Are that fuckjerry cups at 0:39?
Mr.Krabs sees an opportunity
YUM!
Early squad where are you at...??
This was an ad for Kraft Mac and Cheese
Hi
Food Tasters: Eats almost every single food and never becomes fat.
Me: eats a single grain of rice adds makes me 1kg fat.
Why world?! So cruel.
Must be great to eat food and get paid at once, damn.
They really get paid $78,000+ per year lmaooo sign me up