Key limes vs. Persian limes - Tiki Drinks and Food

T thejab Grand Member (1 year) Tradewinds Apartments, Alameda, CA Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2992	T thejab Posted posted on Fri, Jul 20, 2007 11:56 AM Cooks Illustrated, an excellent cooking magazine that doesn't take advertising, did a comparison between Key limes and the common Persian limes. They didn't test them in cocktails, but they did compare them straight and in a Key lime bar desert recipe. The results were that in straight tasting some tasters found that the Persian limes were slightly more tart, but in the desert there was no clear difference, except that they had to squeeze 20 Key limes vs. only 3 Persian limes to get the same quantity of juice! http://www.cooksillustrated.com/tasting.asp?tastingid=399&bdc=4788&extcode=N07EG3AH1 I searched for a past topic on this but didn't find an exact match (previous topics on juice squeezers and Mai Tais had diverged into some discussion of this), so I started a new one.

Cooks Illustrated, an excellent cooking magazine that doesn't take advertising, did a comparison between Key limes and the common Persian limes. They didn't test them in cocktails, but they did compare them straight and in a Key lime bar desert recipe. The results were that in straight tasting some tasters found that the Persian limes were slightly more tart, but in the desert there was no clear difference, except that they had to squeeze 20 Key limes vs. only 3 Persian limes to get the same quantity of juice!

http://www.cooksillustrated.com/tasting.asp?tastingid=399&bdc=4788&extcode=N07EG3AH1

I searched for a past topic on this but didn't find an exact match (previous topics on juice squeezers and Mai Tais had diverged into some discussion of this), so I started a new one.

Post #320149 by thejab on Fri, Jul 20, 2007 11:56 AM