bright sellers paid me to mention them
at the end of this video these are some
of the words that I think that you
should get acquainted with to hold your
own in a conversation over a prefixed
tasting menu and I'd like to get the
more literal words out of the way first
starting with salty salty foods include
chips and pretzels but in order to
really get your arms around it you've
got to experience over salted food a
couple of times while under salted food
leaves you feeling like something is
missing overly salty food makes it just
plain inedible briny is just salty with
its sharp edges eroded by ocean water
sample the taste of briny by munching on
a few capers olives or oysters
herbaceous is just a fancier way of
saying Irby as in tasting of herbs like
chives basil and parsley a really green
falafel might taste especially
herbaceous other self-descriptive food
words include vegetal tasting of
vegetables take the spice out of a
jalapeno and that's what you're left
with and citric tasting of citrus but
not necessarily sour like the orange
zest sitting in a bowl of sugar or lime
zest flavoring your margaritas rim salt
nutty means tasting of nuts but it has
potential to throw you for a loop when
used to describe certain toasted dairy
products like deeply browned butter or a
crispy parmesan frico earthy means
tasting of earth and if you're not sure
you can pinpoint that description try a
roasted red beet or a shaved white
truffle to things that taste like they
were ripped from the earth and placed in
your mouth still coated in houmous and
compost cam phorus is a little bit like
girthy but specific to camphor a terpene
that's readily sampled by sniffing on
Carmex or sucking on a bay leaf tannic
is another literal word and that it
means tasting of tannins but you might
not be able to identify that quite yet
so to do so drink a glass of really dark
red wine or criminally over steeped
black tea that kind of astringent
feeling that you get in your mouth is
caused by tannins and it's exactly the
flavor that I stripped out in my video
about washing tannins out of cocktails
with milk you might have figured out all
these words on your own with context
clues but some of the following are less
straightforward even though it's liquid
the Afra mention tannic wine might be
described as dry to mean the opposite of
sweet thus
begins the conceptual portion of today's
lecture tangy it's kind of like sour and
something like a tangerine excuse me
tangerine might be both think of tangy
as sours weaker cousin found a parent in
a vinaigrette where sour lemon is
downgraded to tangy with the aid of
olive oil or in foods like sumac or even
really mature cheese's or you might swap
out the word for sharp Chloe is a word
used to describe anything painfully
sweet be it a pop ballad or a shot of
pure uncut coca-cola syrup straight with
no chaser funky is a word that often
gets used to mean this should be gross
and it kind of is but not really funky
foods like fish sauce are often mixed
into something else that tames said funk
when funk goes too far it might be in
the realm of rancid if you're not sure
what rancid tastes like buy a pack of
almonds and let them sit in the cupboard
for a year
almonds are high in fat and fat is
notorious for going rancid over time if
you've ever tried making a month's worth
of jerky with well marbled ribeye
instead of super lean top round I'm
willing to bet that you've experienced
heartbreaking rancidity in your life
whitening to some deeply burnt toast or
even a little bit of burnt garlic and
you'll become familiar with the meaning
of acrid very quickly
words like accurate and rancid might be
a little offensive depending on who's at
the table so if you feel like being
caddy without being too offensive you
can just call a dish challenging it's
really just critic talk or bad at the
end of a critics lexicographical
spectrum might lie oaked
a fancy way of saying classy or artsy if
you go to a fine dining establishment
your focus might not be on leaving
totally stuffed just as oats Couture is
a high art expression of fashion that
you've never dared to rely on day to day
oats cuisine is a high concept albeit
impractical way to eat unctuous savory
and umami all kind of mean the same
thing - but they're collectively losing
their way as marketing terms in the same
way that fast food menus uses the word
crispy as code for fried pork belly is
unctuous gravy is savory and demi-glace
is probably the most ago mommy food on
earth whether it's made from foam boo
and mushrooms or roasted veal bones the
point of this lesson isn't to build
rules around which words we should and
shouldn't use but rather to keep you
expanding that culinary lexicon and
building your own personal vocabulary
when someone Purdue
is an artistic expression whether it's
through music dance painting or food
they probably want a better response 10
Wow I liked that and even if you're just
cooking for yourself eating and drinking
is a lot more enjoyable when you can
specifically identify which portions of
the experience hit the notes that you're
aiming for mmm tastes rich I'll see you
in the post role bright cellars is a
wine club for beginners when I buy wine
I like to go into a physical store and
ask the experts to pick something based
on ridiculous adjectives like muddy and
dank just to see what they come up with
for people who don't want to go into a
physical store don't want to talk to
strangers and don't even know how to
begin describing wines there's right
sellers you can take a short quiz online
and get a variety of bottles ships to
your house place of business place of
worship or any place that you receive
mail each box comes with educational
information for noobs like serving
temperature tips pairing suggestions and
tasting notes if you don't like a bottle
they'll send a replacement in your next
box
they sent me six bottles and I've been
enjoying a glass every night like a true
quarantine King if you want six bottles
there is a link in my video's
description that gets you 50% off your
first box if you've always been
interested in wine but never really knew
where to begin
go ahead take that quiz and get started
using all the words that you just
learned on half of wine
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