crème brûlée is cruncy or crispy

[belissimo]

Hello everyone,

I would like to know which is to correct to say about crème brûlée.

Is it crunchy or crispy?

Thank you.

 

[PaulQ]

It is correct to say that the surface of (or the outside of) crème brûlée is crunchy or crispy.

 

[lingobingo]

It has a crunchy topping. (The rest of it is soft/creamy!)

 

[cidertree]

Preventative link:

Is It Crispy or Is It Crunchy?(epicurious . com)

 

[Glasguensis]

Is it crunchy or crispy?

It depends who has made it. The texture of the sugar crust varies, and can be crunchy or crispy or neither.
Edit: having just tried one (purely in the interests of science, of course), it can also be both.

 

[JulianStuart]

It depends who has made it. The texture of the sugar crust varies, and can be crunchy or crispy or neither.
Edit: having just tried one (purely in the interests of science, of course), it can also be both.

I will have to do some similar research, with multiple replicates My starting bias would suggest that a thin layer of hard sugar might be crispy while a thick layer would be crunchy. It might take many attempts to confirm this, however.

 

[velisarius]

The caramel topping is brittle. Somehow it would never occur to me to describe it as crunchy, or crispy.

 

[Majorbloodnok]

Not that this is a definition of any sort, but to my mind if something snaps between your front teeth then it's crispy. If it's brittle and you get your molars working on it, it's crunchy.

 

[JulianStuart]

I think brittle is a broad category - things that break rather than bend when deformed somehow. Crispy and crunchy (and even crackly) might be subdivisions of how something breaks, almost on an onomatopoeic basis?