Is the opposite of salt: Pepper or Sugar?
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A lot of stuff uses both, but sometimes it's not obvious.
Tomato sauce has both salt and sugar. As do many meat dishes.
Oh, certainly. At least as far as salt has an opposite. Sweetness is often used as a counter to all the other tastes, and yet it pairs well with all of them.
I'd think that salt are sugar have always been somewhat universal - albeit not always easily obtained in a raw form - whereas pepper was and only became widespread after being an expensive luxury item that could only be gotten from one place for a good thousand years.
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So what about pepper and sugar, this is the real question of the thread.
Yeah, I guess I was thinking if I had to eat them raw or something. But I was pretty off in practical use cases, haha.
Pepper is complimentary to salt. Sugar and salt also go together but because they're two contracting flavors.
Neither.
It's simply one of the five basic tastes our tongue can sense. Most good dishes/recipes play with all of these. Yes, you can balance them out so one doesn't overpower the others too much but you cannot neutralize flavors with each other.
(My younger, less experienced me would've chosen "salt" as the answer)
It's simply one of the five basic tastes our tongue can sense. Most good dishes/recipes play with all of these. Yes, you can balance them out so one doesn't overpower the others too much but you cannot neutralize flavors with each other.
(My younger, less experienced me would've chosen "salt" as the answer)
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I see it has been decided, but I was coming into this thread to say it. Pepper and sugar are opposing tastes. Sugar and salt go well together in many ways (salted caramel being my favourite) and salt & pepper go together so well they often get put in the same dispenser.
Pepper and sugar though. Yuck.
Pepper and sugar though. Yuck.
I can think of a few ways you'd use pepper and sugar together, like in a dry rub or whatever
pepper's great on candied nuts too
First thing I thought of is OP has encountered a terrible analogy question. I would say pepper. Opposite color and size (traditionally) and salt is a mineral while pepper is a spice. Also salt and sugar are more similar in that they are more often used as an ingredient in larger quantities while pepper is often used more sparingly.
You can't say that and NOT give us the damn story
Anyways my answer is vinegar. Or something sour.
I'd say mint (or spearmint) is the opposite of pepper, and cocoa/coffee grounds are the opposite of sugar since it's soooo bitter.
Salt... really has no opposite that I'm aware of.
Salt... really has no opposite that I'm aware of.
Pepper adds spice. Who thinks of spice as an opposite to salt?
Sweet is opposite of salty.... sugar is sweet...The answer is sugar.
Sweet is opposite of salty.... sugar is sweet...The answer is sugar.
I'm not really sure how you could consider salt bitter or sour
it's just salty
I can understand sweet as the opposite of sour, but sweet as the opposite of salty? I don't know about that one
The premise is wrong. It's like asking what's the opposite of a fork - a knife or spoon?
For what it's worth I voted sugar but meh.
For what it's worth I voted sugar but meh.
Yup
It only started recently but anytime I have popcorn now i immediately want something like M&Ms
