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    What salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and more

    Explosions&Fire

    1 HN recommender · recommended in 3 months, 2019–2024

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    12:29 · 905K views · Jan 28, 2018

    The Explosions&Fire channel taste-tests the chloride salts of the alkali metals (lithium through cesium), plus some alkaline earth metals and ammonium. The presenter describes the flavors, and the results are more pleasant than expected.

    It gets linked in threads about salt and taste as a quirky, memorable curiosity.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @kadobanSep 2023· in “Salt Taste Is Surprisingly Mysterious”

      One of my favorite random youtube videos: this video "What salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and more"

      RecommendsView on HN
    2. @elil17Feb 2024· in “Lady Tasting Brine”

      Reminds me of this insane video (tasting chloride salts of Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, and Caesium): this video FWIW no one has ever noticed my use of 50% NaCl/50% KCl mixture ("Lite Salt") in place of NaCl. I think when you actually put that mixture on food it would be almost impossible to notice the difference.

      CitesView on HN
    3. @osamagirl69Dec 2019· in “Ramen restaurant prevalence is associated with stroke mortality in Japan”

      Why not limit your scope to just sodium and potassium? This guy tries all of the alkali metal salts! this video

      AsideView on HN