Some 'funky' ideas about flavor and how it works...

[Soignee]

I happened upon THIS site many years ago when 'molecular gastronomy' became mainstream in culinary circles.
There is NO question that flavor and aroma are linked and I thought I would share it...

Here is a bit of where they are at: http://blog.khymos.org/molecular-gastronomy/flavor-pairing/

[h=2]Flavor pairing[/h]When we say that something tastes nice, what we are talking about has more to do with smell than with taste. It is estimated that 20% of a tasting experience comes from taste, that is from the tongue, whereas 80% comes from the smell or the aroma. Our tongue has about 9000 taste buds that are capable of detecting sweet, salt, sour and bitter (in order of increasing sensitivity). In comparison, we have around 5-10 million cells or receptors capable of detecting smell. There are about 1000 different smell receptors and they allow us to distinguish more than 10.000 different smells! This is possible because a specific volatile molecule can trigger more than one receptor. It is the combined response from these receptors that we perceive as a certain smell. The Nobel Prize in medicine for 2004 was awarded to Linda Buck and Richard Axel for their “discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system”.

Some really interesting (and strange) stuff about which flavors pair together...




And a sub link for e liquid pairing info...http://thevaperstable.com/e-liquid-flavor-pairing/

 

[Rin13]

Then how come some things that smell awful, taste good? Lol

 

[williebb123]

i guess there are always exceptions to most anything , like stinky cheese but oh how great it taste

 

[Justabrewer]

i guess there are always exceptions to most anything , like stinky cheese but oh how great it taste

That might be the only thing that smells funky but tastes great, take a whiff of the sprinkled type Parmesan, dirty socks is all I get. Is there anything else that smells bad and tastes great??

 

[Soignee]

That might be the only thing that smells funky but tastes great, take a whiff of the sprinkled type Parmesan, dirty socks is all I get. Is there anything else that smells bad and tastes great??

A lot of the fermented foods group, fish sauce, stinky tofu. Hell, anything fermented soy for that matter! Then there's the weird food group like Durian.

Funny thing about the 2nd link up there is it comes full circle back to the flavor pairing thread started on ECF way back when.

 

[Muero]

Yes! thanks for posting. I've always liked to stick to normal pairing when making eliquid, but it's nice to have a nice compiled list of everything.