Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Soy Source

You Must Cedar Point Of This Story

A Japanese company will sell soy sauce that has aged for three years in the world's largest wooden soy sauce barrel. ``World's No 1 Wooden Barrel Soy Sauce'' - cured for three years in a barrel 9m in diameter and 9m tall - will be sold online by Fundokin Soy Sauce Co. The giant barrel can hold 5.4 million litres of the salty sauce, and was made by hand in 2002 using 400-year-old cedar trees from Canada. The wood helps give the sauce a desirable fragrance, colour and taste, the company said. The big-barrel sauce will cost $10 for a 500ml bottle.

8 comments:

YesBut said...

Hi David
Did you know there is no link between the comments you leave and your own web page. Guess you have to click some box in your account settings.

david mcmahon said...

Hi yesbut,

No, I didn't know that. Many thanks for letting me know.

Will go through my settings on the weekend and fix that.

Many thanks!

Cheers

David

Anonymous said...

what a saucy post

[I know it's obvious, but it had to be said]

david mcmahon said...

Hi Steph,

A good journalist never reveals his, er, sauces!

Cheers

David

Bart said...

Cedar Point is an amusement park in Ohio.

Brian in Oxford said...

So we've got ourselves an analogy:

Cedar is to soy sauce
as
Oak is to whiskey

Put some yeast in that barrel and see what brews!

david mcmahon said...

Hi Bart-Man,

I should have remembered that!

Cheers

David

david mcmahon said...

Hi Brian,

V E R Y interesting experiment indeed. Like they say, yeast is yeast and west is west and twain shall never meet!

Cheers

David