Surprising Food Combos Taste Test

whose tongue is smarter or according to science let's talk about that mythical good day everyone wonders what PB&J

taste

s so good or what orange soda and anchovies definitely don't go well according to believers of the flavor pairing theory it all comes down to a delicious and indisputable science of

taste

Pairing theory states that the reason certain

food

s go together better is because they actually share certain chemicals in common, and through this idea, science has introduced some pretty strange

food

combinations which, in theory, should be matches made in culinary heaven, but will our non-theoretical tongues really agree that this is so?

The timing for this is known to science, so the core concept of flavor pairing theory is that the more aromatic compounds foods have in common, the better they will taste together and this is based on the fact that 80% of flavor of our foods and drinks is determined by how our noses pick up what are called volatile aromatic compounds like dimethyl sulfide and cadaverine hmm, two of my favorite and decorated chefs from around the world. I started using this mad science, but not everyone believes in this theory, so we will

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it ourselves. Yes, we're going to try some weird combinations that science says should work together and also some weird, unscientific ones that Josh and Nicole have come up with and see if we can tell the difference.

Whoever has the most scientific language will win the coveted first place. tongue ribbon let's see okay we start with coffee according to the flavor combination theory one of these three ingredients is a scientific combination while the others are not now our options are bok choy mustard and carrot bok choy what is that is this that is this The stuff that floats in bok choy soup is like one of the most nutritious things pound for pound that you can eat on the planet. You ate it with coffee. No, I'm not coming to any conclusion other than I think there's a reason why I haven't enjoyed them together before.

I'll tell you right now. Bok choy is not coffee with cream and carrots. They start with the same letter. I love how you provided chopsticks for the carrots like we couldn't grab them, you know? We are divas, now we don't like to touch you, take care of you, hmm, it's okay, for me there is a different combination that gives more life to both flavors. I have my chemistry. I'm seeing chemistry right now. your cup of coffee behind the bowl you think it's right and 3 2 1 it's okay you agree and I actually like it yeah it's it's weird I'm tempted you know what let's do it let's get it dirty okay guys this one coffee. correct answer correct we like it don't fool yourself they feel like fools now that mr.

Karos, isn't it? Yes, the carrot carrier was my second choice. I'll say I'll share it, but now I'm curious. You need to sip your coffees and it doesn't ring true. I already did. It is awful. I love it, the scientific explanation printed here on this card says that coffee and carrots go together because they share vinyl glue, charcoal, and 5-methyl furfural. I love methyl faux fur. Oh, second round, okay, so we get some white chocolate and seaweed salad with caviar. and what is this that is unagi aka roasted eel eel man Nagi I love white chocolate you ready to ruin it forever and then it's white chocolates they gave us they have a nice low crack to put caviar in apparently That's not like that, you know?

Which that's not a bad idea, yeah, I'm just going to put it there because you know it's a combination that wasn't good. Oh, especially, it's so fishy, ​​well, because it's so see, it's the potential of the fish is what's right now. So you've made yourself a seaweed sandwich here. Something similar is happening. I mean, you all are a bit complicated giving us three things from the sea. Well, they did very well with the first round. We have to make it difficult for them. I mean, the seaweed wasn't as spicy as the caviar, but it's the same experience.

The part that is good is the white chocolate. What we are deciding is that I prefer white chocolate. Okay, but you have to find the volatile aromatic compounds. I have an answer based on that I don't want to try any of them again aha so I'm ready three two one I'm going for the caviar I went with the eel although it's a horrible experience we've discovered chocolate covers the world of pain but white chocolate It's not even chocolate, but maybe, oh, maybe they match, the correct answer is caviar, yes, okay, but why did you lose? You got a combination of white chocolate and caviar because they share multiple compounds including trimethylamine mine, which coincidentally also causes the smell of some human infections and bad breath in the third round, okay, now we're trying to find scientific pair two strawberries mm-hmm, choosing between mushrooms, eggs and just garlic, but a quick first announcement, do you know what scientifically prepares? with this episode, Josh and Nicole's new podcast, called a hot dog is a sandwich, I invite you to watch it, enrich your mind with the relaxing sounds of pears, engage in fantastic food discussions and see their faces equally relaxing. version of the cake can yes live yesterday in which direction would I point for yesterday yesterday this way very good, you are already eating a strawberry, a strawberry on a mushroom, oh look, it looks like a character, hey, I'm a guy with sunglasses have you seen something I'm not going to let myself be honest with you wow I'm seeing that uh that told me nothing there's mushrooms in there they don't have much flavor look now that's a strange world I'm living in there's a demon egg right there what if they And what would happen if that thing came out of a chicken?

You know, oh, you're already on the hook. I'd take it to the state fair and make a little money. I have a strawberry. yogurt chicken, uh, mmm, yeah, I have to say from one of those in that first taste, I got a strong association between two of the ingredients. Obviously you are talking about garlic because it is the only one that has a strong flavor. Everything else is nice. de I didn't say a strong flavor I said a strong association get out of my face man three two one I think it's the eggs so look, look, this strawberry garlic thing was working on me did you like it?

Yeah, what's up with this and right? The answer is mushroom, no, we were both wrong, it's a lot, why are they mushrooms? Strawberries and mushrooms go together because they share, oh, of course, I knew, they share one, no and all, and methyl butta, no eighty, but listen, I think garlic shares two no anals, so we. I've got a little salmon here, a little light Oh, licorice and then we've got hops, well, couldn't that be fun. I just thought it was going to be fun. I know, two rounds ago, after we finished, I turned to Morgan and said, this gets better and he says it gets different.

I was. I was waiting for this episode. I know kids find out things, yeah, like how about a sermon and jumps, science man, science, ghosts, places humans aren't willing to go, you're right and Then the humans finally show up and say, Oh, you had reason. Doing this is like reaching for the moon. I'm going to make my movement tremble like the moon. How are you going to do this? I won't do it. You can do it. And what about that? You're talking about Christmas, you're crushing. I'm doing a full moon. Thanks for the licorice stick. Now if I don't like salmon or licorice, maybe you like them both together.

Can you just eat hops? Yes, Nicole, didn't you research this? How does this normally work? I don't know, just do it, don't ask questions, just do it. I love honesty, what the hell don't you? We're supposed to make that very bitter with the aromatic. I have a guess based on that. Okay, yeah, I had a good experience at one point. Date two was a light trick. Okay, this really worked together. High Line. I like it, but I thought. that hops and salmon actually complement each other hops and also salmon when they try to go upstream they jump the correct answer is licorice but I mean science is on its own nowadays well I will say that when I tried those two I was I like this, but I thought it was just because I like licorice and I like that they just threw it in there to throw me off.

I have to get out of their heads and into my head, into Science's head, okay? we'll go into the Science card and read it, please, oh oh, salmon, salmon, and licorice combine because they both share the X hexagon, a hex anal property that is a six-sided anus. I just want a lost liver, man, your nemesis also my nemesis, but is it great when you combine it with matcha powder? What is this? Is it jasmine tea or cognac? What science? If you're listening we hate you if this is what it takes to get man back to the moon.

I don't want to go there. Listen, we went there, we put up a flag, it's just a pile of dust, there are no people there, dust you don't hand over, okay, dummy, why are we going to do it all of a sudden? What are you going to do? One last round Dean, it'll make it better, yeah, it's the rhythm, it helps me, that's bad in all kinds of ways, I mean, matcha helps you a lot, it's strong, matcha overpowers liver, it's stronger, so with that that's not what you measure, okay, so now I'm going to take another piece of liver.

I have to pour tea on it I'm not going to no I won't, that's that metallic taste. I'm sorry. Listen. Yes. I feel like I've been fooled with all the things we've eaten. Doesn't make liver. more appetizing oh this should help yeah okay so let me keep doing this okay what I thought was going to happen is we were going to find all these cool combinations which is amazing you should try this at home , but I secretly hoped I could do it. What I didn't tell anyone is that I was going to take these combinations and I was going to have a party at my house and I was going to invite the coolest people I knew and I was going to say mm-hmm take these two things together and then I was going to be so good that I would be like oh guys, oh you have to go to the McLaughlin house, they just combined things and it's crazy, I'm not having that party, you're not all invited to the party I'm going to. not have, let's vote, okay, here we drill down to 100, why do you think it's a team?

That's the only thing that didn't help because there was a metallic taste there that I thought I was getting from the equipment. None of us got at least one of these right in this whole ex, you already got one right. I don't even remember that the correct answer is jasmine, yeah guys that's true, finally liver and Jasmine match up because they share multiple compounds including indole which is. defined as citing a crystalline organic compound with an unpleasant odor present in coal tar and feces, yes, that makes a lot of sense, hey, come to my house, we are drinking feces tea, well, I won, no, we tried, you have yours, you will win.

You don't comply, you want me to talk to you, you know I will mom, yes, oh, yes, hi, I'm Emily and I'm Riley and we're about to try the

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icle of the Pennsylvania white-tailed deer for the first time and it's time to spin the wheel of mythology, well that was a pretty awkward bonding moment, it was a full ball they held at the beginning. I won't bite, yeah, click on the top rail to see this. Guess which chocolate bars were melted and then combined into a nice mythical treat. more and I discovered a victory over the mentality that will weigh.

That said, if I went to a restaurant and they told me the soup of the day was chili, I would feel just as cheated if the soup of the day was a bowl of frozen chips. You're just lying for the sake of lying, no, it's okay, no, I don't agree with that.