Timeline for Cream cheese cupcake icing too sour
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| Dec 9, 2011 at 2:16 | comment | added | Cos Callis | @Aaronut, you are quite correct, I sometime confuse sour and bitter, (yes, they are very different but I will get the wrong name for them, which is odd because I quite like sour and detest bitter...) Of course, even though the salt will not "block" the sour, the electrophoresis of the salt will still have the effect of enhancing the sweet. A little salt in this situation might still benefit the icing. (source: Good Eats: The Ballad of Salty and Sweet) | |
| Dec 5, 2011 at 0:14 | comment | added | Aaronut | I know that salt blocks bitter receptors but this is the first I've heard of it blocking sour tastes. Can you point us to a reference? | |
| Dec 3, 2011 at 20:05 | history | answered | Cos Callis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |