Tahini paste

[coopes]

Hi
I have been making the Hommus from the recipe in the EDC (also making my own tahini paste from the vegetarian cookbook) and find that it tastes really bitter.  I suspect it is due to the tahini paste, has anyone else had this issue?  If I use bought tahini paste it is  not bitter.   Should I toast the sesame seeds first?
look forward to any thoughts/suggestions!
thanks

[goldfish]

Here is another thread on the tahini, coopes.  I've never made the tahini so I'm no help there . . I can only guess the commercial tahini has other things in it . . .

[judydawn]

GF did you mean to put a link in your last posting?

Here's a link from the forum.

[goldfish]

Thanks, Judy - yes i did, . . . Think my brain is still heat affected from yesterday!  Thanks again for fixing that up for me!

[coopes]

Thanks for the help.  I am new to this and could not figure out how to find the link, glad I am not that hopeless 
Unfortunately the link does not work, it says it is no longer available, perhaps I am not doing something correctly??

[judydawn]

I just checked the link coopes, it works for me.  Did you click on the word here's?
Is it working for anyone else?

[goldfish]

Yes - it's working for me . . .

[judydawn]

Thanks GF.

[coopes]

Thanks everyone, I have now managed to find it, I was not clicking in the right spot!!!!  I will give this a go and use the vegetable oil instead of the grapeseed and see if this makes a difference.
thanks!!