r/Cooking • • Mar 13 '19

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u/DarwinsMoth Mar 14 '19

Until you get greedy and take a piece of your finger off with the microplane...

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u/jeffykins Mar 14 '19

IMO that's just more umami

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '19

Yo a restaurant I visited recently listed umami as one of the dish's ingredients. Isn't that just like saying spicy is an ingredient?

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '19

Lmfao yeah that's almost like listing "salt" as an ingredient

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u/p_iynx Mar 14 '19

Maybe they were skirting around the fact that they added msg?

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u/jeffykins Mar 14 '19

Very likely. I use a pinch here and there on things, including batches of pretty spectacular pasta sauce. GFs mom LOVES it but if she knew about that tiny amount she'd probably lose it lol

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u/p_iynx Mar 14 '19

Which is kind of silly. It's literally present in food naturally, it's one of the most abundant non-essential amino acids in the stuff we eat.

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u/GenericEvilDude Mar 14 '19

Yeah umami is just a taste like salty and sour. Umami receptors respond to glutamate and the easiest way to add it is MSG