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What purpose does pepper serve as a seasoning? |
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What purpose does pepper serve as a seasoning?
I understand why we use salt - it has a physiological effect on the tongue, making it more receptive to the actual flavours of the food to which it has been added...
But what purpose does pepper serve? |
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I've cut out all my salt ! Ok the only salt I have is on chips from the chippie......no other times.
Pepper is lovely ! Surely it's up to peeps if they like pepper or not.
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Pepper also acts as a flavour enhancing ingredient.
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Pepper is a spice. It adds flavour.
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I don't apply salt as a seasoning at all, as it's present in the other seasonings I use. I use black pepper because it adds a nice flavour to food.
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i much prefer pepper to salt, wont add any extra salt to food, when i eat at my friends its all i can taste as they add it and i dont!
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I also much prefer pepper to salt...delicious tasty stuff.
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I understand why we use salt - it has a physiological effect on the tongue, making it more receptive to the actual flavours of the food to which it has been added...
But what purpose does pepper serve? |
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It sends tiny amounts of pepper endorphins from the front right quadrant of your ear canal
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It might just be my deadened tastebuds, or the type pepper I've tried, but any time I've added it to food it didn't really taste of anything
I'll occasionally add salt to food, but never pepper. |
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Pepper's great....
![]() It contains piperine, which is similar to capaiscin (probly spelt all wrong) - the stuff in chillies, so it does have a mild psychoactive effect.
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It might just be my deadened tastebuds, or the type pepper I've tried, but any time I've added it to food it didn't really taste of anything
I'll occasionally add salt to food, but never pepper. |
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and a whole peppercorn adds Ker-Runch
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I love loads of black pepper on steak. So nice.
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Pepper also acts as a flavour enhancing ingredient.
I assume you do mean freshly-ground OP? I put it on almost everything.
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Pepper (black?) on strawberries I thought was a wind up until I tried it. Amazing, it seems to enhance the sweetness of the fruit.
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Tomato sandwich (white bread) sprinkled with loads of ground black pepper, fried eggs with loads of sprinkled ground black pepper. Both of them are favorites of mine.
I mean the freshly ground stuff! |
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