/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>7165716
Is that Smith Island cake?
>>7165124
I want to try baking Sachertorte.
I have only recently started baking and I've only tried kladdkaka, lemon cake, carrot cake and zebra cake.

What you eat alter your ability to taste. It alters the composition of the acid in your stomach. It alters what bacteria floria you have in your gut.


What you eat alter the chemical composition of your blood, which alter how taste works.

Fruit tastes like candy after 2-5 weeks on a diet without anything tasting sweet.

Zinc increases the potency of the taste buds.

As you get older, your ability to smell and taste degrade a little.

Genes decide what part of chemically complex ingredients tastes. I.E if Coriander tastes like spice or if it tastes like soap.

On the top of that, placebo means that a smell can be more than a smell, and a taste more than a taste. A acquired taste can simply mean you didn't like the smell, but you like the taste, so you got past thinking it would taste bad.