Salting your coffee: negative result

[elfs]

So, following the hot new trend of putting a pinch of salt into your coffee to cancel the bitter taste, I have to say that I'm disappointed with the experiment. Either I tasted no difference, or the salt was sufficient that it distracted from the coffee taste, and I was unhappy with it either way.

Which is kind-of sad. When you blog, you want to be able to teach about something great, and I have nothing great to report. Salting coffee doesn't seem to do much for me. Then again, I may have a reason for that. See the next post.

Comments

[tamino.livejournal.com]

I tried to post this a bit ago but it didn't show up -- and it turns out I wasn't logged in anyway, so even if it had shown up it'd be from anonymous.

I was under the impression that the salt in coffee thing was chemical, not taste related... either something about the sodium and chlorine, or something about the pH, helps get more of the stuff out of the beans so that you're throwing less away with the used grounds.

That's not authoritative in any way, that's just what I'd thought was behind the phenomenon. Are you pretty sure that when people do that, there's no chemical effect they're going for, that it's a purely sense/olfactory/bitter-perception thing?