Our article on the taste of cocktails doesn't start with cocktails, but with our human feelings. When we enjoy the moment of deliciousness, all parts of our body will cooperate at the same time to feel the delicious feeling. Here I come to popularize science, in fact, 80% of the taste has the nose to perceive, not the mouth. For example, when we drink seasoned drinks, the taste of the drink is actually what we smell rather than taste. Our brains perceive a unified taste at the same time, touch, smell, and hearing. This article will share the different feelings that come with the taste of cocktails.
As we perform a series of functions such as chewing and swallowing, the aromatic particles of the tasted item are exhaled from the throat through the nose, and the nose directly transmits the "taste map" to the brain. This brings us one of the most important senses in our human body - the sense of smell.
Taste is also an important part of taste perception, and our taste buds can feel five main tastes – salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami. The tongue and mouth are important organs for feeling taste, and our taste includes touch, pressure, temperature, and pain. So what does the taste have to do with the cocktail? We've all drunk Coke, and when the bubbles of Coke burst, the carbon dioxide in it stimulates the pain in the mouth and changes people's judgment of taste.
From a visual point of view, we can see what is in our mouth. This also shows that the appearance of a drink plays an important role in the definition of our taste.
Even hearing is an indispensable part of tasting taste, so what is the use of hearing? We can hear the sound of our laryngeal muscles coming into contact with different liquids or we can hear the sound of a wine jug colliding with an ice cube in a bar, so hearing is also an indispensable part of the wine tasting experience.
Having said that the human body feels about the taste, let's introduce the taste of the cocktail itself.
Bitterness – Bitterness is the most complex taste sensation we've found so far, our tongue can taste more than 100 different kinds of bitterness, but we are naturally repellent of bitterness, remember the first time you drank Chinese medicine? Remember the first time you drank coffee? The first experience of bitterness is not good, but we have not given up feeling the response of bitterness to the brain, which can make our tongue feel dry, so that you want to drink further to restore this dry feeling, which is also the use of different bitter essences and other aromas in the cocktail to make a more complex cocktail.
Sweetness - Sweet is a taste that people are born with, and adding sweetness to cocktails can weaken the feeling of alcohol because our brain will preferentially accept the feeling of sweetness and thus reduce the acceptance of other feelings, and sweetness can also inhibit bitterness, sourness, and saltiness.
Sour - when we feel sour, our chewing muscles will involuntarily contract, since the sour taste is so stimulating, then why do we have to feel the sour taste, the sour taste can play a good balancing role for other tastes, if there is no sour taste to balance then we will feel that other tastes are so boring. Cocktails are often made with sweet and sour, because he is not very stimulating but also plays a role in sourness.
Salty - We are all too familiar with the taste, salty taste can highlight the pleasant taste and suppress other bad tastes, in cocktails. Salt reduces the taste sensation caused by sour taste.
Umami - The discovery of umami is actually more than a hundred years since now, and the feeling brought by umami is very wonderful and can be described as a very "delicious" feeling. Cocktails are often used for appetizers, so adding umami to many cocktails is the choice of many bartenders.
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