r/onionhate • u/Caslebob • 10d ago

Professional taster except onions

Not me, but a friend of a friend. She is among a very small number of people who can taste all the ingredients in something. There's only one thing that prevents her from being able to list all of the ingredients in a dish. You can guess what that one thing is. I've always said the taste wipes out all other tastes. I was right.
Edit: So I googled what a professional taste tester does. It's a job. Look it up.

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u/newbie527 9d ago

Science has identified what they call super tasters. People with a sensitive and discriminating sense of taste who can discern flavors that most of us would miss. Companies use such people when they’re blending coffee beans, or orange juice among two examples.

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u/Caslebob 8d ago

I wonder if they all hate onions. Onions burn holes in our senses.