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 🍀.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"......
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