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BLACK TRUFFLE PRICE HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
Truffle price
The truffle is a mushroom that is never consumed directly unless it is taken in small sheets. This fungus is mixed with different products or dishes that are enhanced by this fungus. Consumption can be made with fresh or preserved truffles.
Important considerations are having the stews prepared and applying slices in our stews to give them a great flavor.
What is the reason for the high price of truffles?
Unique flavor
That's right, today the truffle is one of the best valued subjects in haute cuisine, prestigious cooks and chefs from all over the world share the same vision. The black truffle has unique flavor and aromatic perceptions in the world.
The truffle (especially the black truffle or tuber melanosporum) is the most precious mushroom in haute cuisine, this mushroom is produced with a variety of 100 different varieties around the world, which although not all have the same power in flavor and aroma , it is true that it also has a unique potential to use in different dishes.
Mainly the use in restaurants is given with the black truffle, this is the maximum enhancer of aroma and flavor in our dishes, and it is that the sybarite environment in terms of popular gastronomy is becoming wider and more and more people, always who can economically, urges you to taste the best dishes combined with this mushroom.
Single crop
Yes, we have to take into consideration that the truffle is a fungus that occurs in the roots of holm oaks and oaks.
The producing areas of this fungus are very specific all over the world and this is due to different peculiarities in terms of the pH of the land, temperature, altitude and different terms that mean that not all sites proliferate or their production is allowed.
This factor is the most determining price, since depending on the year this price may vary according to its production, especially the black truffle, a truffle that is produced from the months of November to March.
Especially other factors must be taken into account, especially the weather. In Spain, this fungus began to be produced in the 60s, in the provinces of Huesca, Teruel, Soria and Burgos.
Teruel is the most producing province of this fungus in the world, specifically they are determined in certain areas such as Sarrión.
This addition, it should be noted that the altitude of the site and the winters have a lot to do with it. Teruel, due to its climate with cold winters and mild summers, makes it an excellent region for this type of crop that is becoming more important every day.
How much does a kilo of truffle cost?
The price of the black truffle fluctuates every year under climatic terms, the amount of rain that has fallen, the thermal differences during the year, the pH of the earth, the average temperature of the year.
Everything, absolutely everything influences the final price of the black truffle, which can be around 500 and 1500 euros in Spanish markets, doubling in other European markets such as French or Belgian.
We have to take into consideration that the value of the truffle is a high value, although other culinary enhancers such as saffron have higher prices per kilo, which can reach 3,500 euros and 5,000 euros in the French market.
How the price is a derivative of different productive terms that lead us to go up or down, depending on each of the aforementioned terms.
How do you consume the truffle?
The truffle is a mushroom that is never consumed directly unless it is taken in small sheets. This fungus is mixed with different products or dishes that are enhanced by this fungus. Consumption can be made with fresh or preserved truffles.
Important considerations are having the stews prepared and applying slices in our stews to give them a great flavor.
