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

[ladyallyn.livejournal.com]

Should go without saying it needs to be non-iodized salt. I was told to do it by a dentist and it does, in fact, reduce staining.

There used to be a product on the market caller Coffee Tamer; granulated, tasteless calcium carbonate. I haven't been able to find it on the shelves for several years, but it reduced the acid enough that my partner will Barrett's esophagus could drink it. He could not tolerate even the best coffee otherwise.