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- Palate cleansers in between taste samples: usually water or saltines, but if you have fatty foods, you can cleanse your palate with slices of pear or apple and some seltzer. Spicy food can be palate-cleansed with avocado.
- We tested Jell-o
- Maxine, who's in charge of the sensory lab
- Testing packaged fruit cups
- The testers sit on the other side of this rolling door thing, so they don't sit in the kitchen and get influenced by the cooking smells
- A wall of ovens
- Discarded beauty product boxes
- The sink.
- Stuff near the sink
- Longshot of the sensory kitchen testing lab
- Coffee machines and grinders
- Accessories
- Crock pots and coffee machines
- Where the sensory magic happens
- Electric stoves
- Jello, which we tested
- The sensory lab