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What is umami? It's like all the food people decided "Okay, we have all these names for different flavors in English, we have sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and savory. But let's add a new one and leave the name in Japanese for some reason so nobody knows what the fuck it's supposed to mean." I don't get it.

>> No.17255765

>>17255758
Take a ramen seasoning packet and sprinkle a little on some cream cheese, sour cream, or yogurt. Eat on a cracker. Compare seasoned vs unseasoned. That is the fabled umami.

>> No.17255782

"Brothy" or "Savory" are better descriptors. Japanese get to name it because they refined it in the purest sense from seaweed into MSG, a flavor that has terrified white women for decades.

>> No.17255824

>>17255758
Umami is almost alway mixed with salt, which is what’s considered “savory”. So umami is just the savory flavor without the salt, which is rare in food. You could just say savor and be right 99% of the time. Get a bottle of MSG is you want to know what it tastes like. Spoiler: it tastes like bland chicken broth

>> No.17255827

>>17255758
savory for faggots

>> No.17255876

>>17255758
savory or umami is like the flavor inside of soy sauce, or tomatoes or onions or garlic. there's savory flavors in meat as well. it's that thing you taste when you caramelize onions or that thing in steak sauce that isn't sweet or salty or spicy.
>>17255824
it's not rare it's just covered up and hidden within many foods. like baked apples have a hidden layer of savory flavor underneath the other flavors. even plain oats made into bread have this savory umami thing hidden beneath the earthy nutty carb flavors but its very subtle

>> No.17256573

>>17255876
Seeth

>> No.17256583
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17256583

>Take a ramen seasoning packet and sprinkle a little on some cream cheese, sour cream, or yogurt. Eat on a cracker. Compare seasoned vs unseasoned. That is the fabled umami.

>> No.17256661

>>17255758
Why do people get so triggered by this word?

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>>17256583

>> No.17256692

>>17255758
Why do you faggots always get mad about the word?
You'll gladly talk about how you JULIENNE'd (sliced into thin strips) some veggies and are going to SAUTE (cook in a shallow pan on high heat) them, melt chocolate in a BAIN-MARIE (double boiler) and boast how you, naturally, maintain MISE EN PLACE (have ingredients prepared and ready before you start cooking) but the moment someone says the u-word your jaw tenses up, fists clench and eyebrows contort into a soyjak grimace as you complain that there's already a way to describe the taste in English.

>> No.17256939

>>17256692
Mad

>> No.17257242
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>> No.17257248

>>17256661
Because autistic screeching zoomers.

>> No.17257254

>>17255824
>>17255876
Savory IS the flavor of salt, retarded weebs. It just so happens to be subtle enough for people used to ungodly amounts of salts not to realize they are tasting salt.

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17257302

You will disseminate the umami.

>> No.17257334

>>17257254
no, faggot.

>> No.17257364

Umami is a YouTube channel for an animator.

>> No.17257419

Yourmummy is the flavour I get from a crust old snatch. it's fishy

>> No.17257513

>>17255758
Just buy msg and taste it.

>> No.17257582

It's the current buzzword. Remember "epic"?

>> No.17257587

>>17255758
I was told bacon has 6 different umami flavors in them, that's why I've decided that umami is bacon flavored. You're welcome.

>> No.17257593

>>17255758
the amount of seethe and confusion that a foreign word cause to americans is amazing.

>> No.17258274

>>17255876
>the flavor inside of soy sauce, or tomatoes or onions or garlic. there's savory flavors in meat as well. it's that thing you taste when you caramelize onions or that thing in steak sauce that isn't sweet or salty or spicy
just say MSG, umami is what it tastes like

>> No.17258301

Yeah I tasted urmami last night OP

>> No.17258310

>>17258274
That's just the flavor of salt.

>> No.17258403

>>17255758
>we have all these names for different flavors in English
and what do they mean? what does "salty" mean? salty is salty
umami is umami
and no, umami isnt "brothy", that's like saying salty is tingly or whatever other stupid description

>> No.17258411

>>17257593
Obsessed