Who has not heard of coffee with salt as a supposed remedy against drunkenness. A combination a priori unpleasant that, however, prepared sensibly balances the flavor, especially when dealing with a low-quality coffee. “Salt is a flavor enhancer. Anything that is accompanied with salt enhances the sweetness and reduces the bitterness, so the result is a rounder drink,” says Yosiana Bernardes, food technologist and expert in specialty coffee, minutes after serving some salty popcorn alongside to a coffee during a tasting. What if we have been wrong all our lives? What if instead of adding sugar to be able to drink bitter coffee, we had to add a few grains of salt? A mix that was unthinkable a few years ago, thanks to the explosion of coffee culture, it is now being delved into and social networks are no strangers to it, although not always for coffee reasons.
Bernardes’ statement is shared by various coffee specialists, although some such as Francisco González, co-CEO of Nomad Coffee, emphasizes some nuances, such as that high-quality coffee like specialty coffee—well treated until the cup, of course —, does not need it “because it is already sweet and should not be bitter.” “For a commercial coffee that is not well roasted, that is of low quality, bitter, if you do not want to add sugar, you can add a little salt that will reduce the sensation of bitterness,” he clarifies. The Catalan roaster itself, a benchmark in specialty coffee, reopened the debate on the use of salt a few days ago on your blogin which it is assured that the trick, as González points out, “only works with low-quality coffees.”
The sensory alteration that occurs when adding salt to a preparation has been recorded in different studies and publications, including an article published in Naturein 1997, titled Salt enhances flavor by suppressing bitterness (Salt enhances the flavor by suppressing the bitterness). In it, thanks to the experiment of adding sodium chloride to urea and sucrose, it is concluded that salt suppresses bitterness more than sweetness. The interaction was also recorded in an article published in 1995: Suppression of Bitterness by Sodium: Variation Among Bitter Taste Stimuli (Suppression of bitterness by sodium: variation of bitter taste stimuli). It shows how, in several samples of a bitter compound to which a different concentration of salt was added, “the bitterness was suppressed by the salts, although the degree of suppression varied.”
Drinking coffee with salt is—or was—a practice present in other cultures, although not always on a daily basis. In Turkey, for example, whose coffee tradition is considered Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, adding salt to coffee was part of the wedding ritual. The moment when the groom’s family visited the bride’s family Before the wedding it was, on many occasions, the only time in which the couple met. If she gave him the go-ahead, she would make him a cup of coffee with sugar; If not, she prepared it with salt. To this day, part of that is still maintained and some brides continue to prepare the mixture during said meeting to “measure the extent of their love,” according to UNESCO itself. In Vietnam, the preparation is a commonly consumed drink called Cà Phê Muối, which is made with filtered coffee or instant coffee, with condensed milk, whipped cream and ice to which salt is added.
Better with sweet or savory accompaniment?
Faced with the dilemma of whether to choose something sweet or salty to accompany a coffee to get the most out of the experience, Bernardes, founder of Id Coffee Lab, he assures, that “you always have to tend towards salty”, although, he adds, “there is also an important cultural factor in that choice.” She, for example, usually accompanies it with “salty” toast and even goes so far as to put “salted butter in the coffee.” “If the body is very low, I can add a little butter and it will leave you with a sensory experience with a salty touch and an oily body, which is sometimes missing in some drinks.” On the contrary, Francisco González believes that a specialty coffee “can be paired with any product.” “At Nomad we have even done tastings with cheese,” he adds.
And if you add salt, what is the appropriate amount? In one of his videos published on his YouTube channel, specialty coffee specialist and pioneer James Hoffman uses a saline solution with a fixed concentration and recommends never randomly putting a pinch of salt directly into the cup of coffee. because of the risk of it being “too salty”. To test, in the clip titled The magic of salt in coffee —The magic of salt in coffeein Spanish—Hoffman uses a “quite bitter” supermarket instant coffee and concludes how by adding 0.3 grams of a saline solution with a proportion of 20% salt and 80% water—0.2 grams of salt dissolved in 1 gram of water—significantly improved the flavor.
On TikTok, the social network par excellence to look into all kinds of preparations – not always with sense – there are dozens of videos about the pairing of coffee and salt, although they are not always about fans of this drink, but rather about fitness. There are many users of profiles who boast of consuming the mixture before exercising due to its supposed energetic properties. Rigor is not widespread among the coffee growers who exhibit their experiments, since most add salt without paying attention to the quantities and there are even those who add it directly to the ground coffee before extracting it, either through a filter coffee maker or espresso.
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