Cooking/Chowin' Down trivia: I know lots of you enjoy cooking, so here's a little trivia question: There are five PRIMARY taste sensations that humans can detect. Here's four. What's...

nutz4fish Loc: Colchester, CT

I know lots of you enjoy cooking, so here's a little trivia question:
There are five PRIMARY taste sensations that humans can detect. Here's four. What's the other one ?
1.) Sweet
2.) Sour
3.) Salty
4.) Bitter
5.) ?
Good Luck 🍀.

saw1 Loc: nor cal Windsor

nutz4fish wrote:

I know lots of you enjoy cooking, so here's a little trivia question:
There are five PRIMARY taste sensations that humans can detect. Here's four. What's the other one ?
1.) Sweet
2.) Sour
3.) Salty
4.) Bitter
5.) ?
Good Luck 🍀.

Hot/spicy. 🤠👍

Davidsherman

Spicey

Flytier Loc: Wilmington Delaware

Umami

Randyhartford Loc: Lawrence, Kansas

saw1 wrote:

Hot/spicy. 🤠👍

Agreed: Spicy/Hot

Uncle_T Loc: Georgia

Bland

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

Savory

kandydisbar Loc: West Orange, NJ

saw1 wrote:

Hot/spicy. 🤠👍

bucky buckner Loc: murrells inlet SC

FixorFish wrote:

Savory

I agree savory.

No one special

nutz4fish wrote:

I know lots of you enjoy cooking, so here's a little trivia question:
There are five PRIMARY taste sensations that humans can detect. Here's four. What's the other one ?
1.) Sweet
2.) Sour
3.) Salty
4.) Bitter
5.) ?
Good Luck 🍀.

Savory

nutz4fish Loc: Colchester, CT

Flytier wrote:

Umami

Flytier, You alone win 🏆, if we apply the PRIMARY tastes. Lots of other good answers, but they do not apply to the specific question. Thank you, and all, for your participation.

No one special

I didn't know about umami so I googled the 5 basic taste sensations. It said: The sense of taste has classically been limited to the 5 basic taste qualities: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami or savory. Can I get 1/2 credit for guessing savory? I still don't get what umami tastes like.

nutz4fish Loc: Colchester, CT

No one special wrote:

I didn't know about umami so I googled the 5 basic taste sensations. It said: The sense of taste has classically been limited to the 5 basic taste qualities: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami or savory. Can I get 1/2 credit for guessing savory? I still don't get what umami tastes like.

Sure, why not ? Grading is not being recorded. You might wanna check again using the word primary as opposed to basic. That might give ya a different result. To understand Umami, search that word separately, and you'll see examples of which foods and condiments provide that flavor.

Flytier Loc: Wilmington Delaware

No one special wrote:

I didn't know about umami so I googled the 5 basic taste sensations. It said: The sense of taste has classically been limited to the 5 basic taste qualities: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami or savory. Can I get 1/2 credit for guessing savory? I still don't get what umami tastes like.

Umami is a Japanese term which actually has no translation to English. It doesn't have a clear definition as a term, but savory, maybe depth of flavor , basic goodness, all are close but not quite perfect.

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

No one special wrote:

I didn't know about umami so I googled the 5 basic taste sensations. It said: The sense of taste has classically been limited to the 5 basic taste qualities: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami or savory. Can I get 1/2 credit for guessing savory? I still don't get what umami tastes like.

Since I was going with savory firstly....and I have to ask ...are we not 'mericans ? We use American words for what is the topic.
To wit...Americans call the place to put suitcases in a car "a trunk", British call it "a boot".

In addition to the apparent interchange of umami vs. savory (meaning anyone who also said savory, should get full credit !), but really now....and be thoughtful and honest....who ever heard that term... "umami".... prior to the past decade ?
I have 4 Malaysian-born Chinese siblings, aunts who are excellent cooks, and many chef acquaintances....NONE of which have used that word to describe a dish, to my knowledge.

Gotta stick with "savory", rather than the hip, relatively-new term, mostly spread by cooking show hosts of today who wish to sound "savvy"......