What salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and more
Why Hacker News recommends it
It gets linked in threads about salt and taste as a quirky, memorable curiosity.
What it is
The Explosions&Fire channel taste-tests the chloride salts of the alkali metals (lithium through cesium), plus some alkaline earth metals and ammonium. The presenter describes the flavors, and the results are more pleasant than expected.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2019 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends kadoban · 2023-09 · on “Salt Taste Is Surprisingly Mysterious”
One of my favorite random youtube videos: [this video] "What salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and more"
Cites elil17 · 2024-02 · on “Lady Tasting Brine”
Reminds me of this insane video (tasting chloride salts of Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, and Caesium): [this video] FWIW no one has ever noticed my use of 50% NaCl/50% KCl mixture ("Lite Salt") in place of NaCl. I think when you actually put that mixture on food it would be almost impossible to notice the difference.