Food Flavor Mystery

[bammass]

beer + clamato = UMAMI.

[AfflictiveNemesis]

japanesegourmetcooking*com -- great Japanese umami recipes.

[HisHinata]

umami is japanese for deliciousness, if anyone cares.

[Choosilicious]

I add oyster sauce to my mushroom flavoured instant noodles. Mmmmmmmm...

[fredaxtpor]

MSG could be really dangerous for health, but Glutamic acid is inocuous and have the same fx on food preparation. But glutamic acid is much more expensive...

[MaiLouIsLegend]

finally something better than MSG!

[NightNinja9]

omg! Jet Li! =O

[shahared1]

Umami is the legendary Japanese 'fifth' taste (sweet, sour, salty and sweet being the other four). For a long time scientists only had tests for the first four, and could not determine a fifth. Now they have.

And the MSG thing is not that alarming. Msg occurs naturally from cooking interactions as well as biological properties of food containing glutamic acid. Thats why the chef is explaining how to do it through cooking and not chemicals.

[spikebot51015]

sweet sour salty and sweet???

[shahared1]

woops, my bad. I meant to say sweet sour salty and 'bitter'.

Here are some examples of foods that represent a single flavor that you could test your taste buds on:

Sweet: Sugar

Sour: Citric Acid, commonly found in citrus fruit such as lemons.

Salty: Table Salt

Bitter: Quinine, most commonly found in tonic water.

[Zonr45]

Maybe it has to do with the delicious stuff our mothers make. So, maybe the word has to do with the noise we make when something tastes great and mommy.

[andyloh006]

the asian guy kinda looks like JET LI!!!1

[MarTin3Z420]

LOL they are really trying to feed us the worst information possible, this is so alarming, MSG IS VERY BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH!!!

[rajsanand]

Umami sounds like something created by Ajinomoto to make their MSG sound natural and good for you.

I think it is just the texture that is different when it comes to cheese and meat. You can cook certain vegetables in a particular why by mincing or grilling and make it give the same meaty texture. Umami is just bullshit. They are just trying to give texture a name and then say MSG is natural. So all those feeling those dangerous side-effects are crazy

[Konkaver]

Umami is a texture? hahahahaha

[Arebum]

I knew it!!!!!

I just never found a name.

[Chick6517]

Definitely a good video! I always see so many nonsense videos on you tube now. Most of them are pretty funny, but it's nice to see these kinds of videos once in a while.

[rajsanand]

Junk science is good!!!! amazing, this is obviously an ajinomoto funded "junk science" experiment. They are desperately trying to convince us MSG is natural. If people believe them I just say they deserve it. I have got sick and tired of telling people that msg is bad for you. Seriously you deserve it

[ojideagu]

@rajsanand Umami is recognised almost universally by scientists. MSG is a separate issue.

[ishwie]

quick bickerin & let's eat!

[RoGhrianadh]

Haven't we already determined that these sorts of salts are bad for us in the amounts present in foods typically associated with MSG? This is bad news, IMO :(

[Deyan65]

Don't spam englishempire !

btw I never sensced that thing

[CousinoMacul]

"Know you know what puts the mmm in umami."

I'm stewing at how cheesy that was.

[englishempire]

1st view LOL

[BlueBajs]

That means your mom is ugly.

[englishempire]

oh yes i see perfect logic in that.....

[BlueBajs]

Yeah, it makes as little sense as you.

[englishempire]

No what makes little sense is that you feel the need to reply to me with something so tedious its what infants do, resorting to insults as they have nothing else to say and makes them feel big over the internet.

[Etimos]

Remake your youtube account and use proper capitalization for English Empire. I COMMAND IT!!!

[englishempire]

why?

[Etimos]

A true imperial Englishman wouldnt have to ask why he should properly capitalize the name of his homeland. Fraud!

[Etimos]

Oh yes, I have identified you! Admit it!

[englishempire]

you obviously have some issues mate.

[BlueBajs]

Becouse you suck.

[englishempire]

another sentence full of logic on your part.

[BlueBajs]

Well I make more logic sense then you.

[englishempire]

LOLOL your grammar says different.

[BlueBajs]

Your spelling says ass, and I'm Swedish, so you are blaming someone who is not from the "UK" on grammar spelling?

[englishempire]

You started talking to me in english, should of insulted me in sweedish LOL twat. Im bored of this now, I wont reply as I have a life, if you have one, you won't either.

[Etimos]

You are a very peculiar sort of person. Generally, proper English people can detect sarcasm and silly humor when they hear it, but you seem to have your detector turned off. You're not very bright, are you? Sort of sad, really, you seem to represent what the English Empire has become, in its fading glory, slowly surrendering its mind, body, and soul to laziness, stupidity, and complacency. Uncapitalized, because it doesnt really deserve it any more. It's not a proper name, just a pale memory.

[englishempire]

Yes i know i said i would not reply but it is hard to know whether someone is being scarcastic through a keyboard, and the English Empire doesnt exist anymore, so im hardly representing what it has become. Anyway this whole generation has become what you stated.

[Etimos]

Much as it is rather depressing, the british empire does still exist, in one form or another. Canada, northern ireland, scotland, wales, australia, all still part of that no-longer-so-great empire. And apologies for the harsh nature of the previous comment, was joking mostly, but yeah, it's hard to tell in text.

[BlueBajs]

Jävla bög, jag ska våldta din mamma. Happy now?