Do you also see the difference or am I tripping?
In: Chemistry
How the hell are so many top level comments leaving the main component out?!
Mouth feel.
Taste is complicated. It is an amalgamation of pretty much every sense. Smell is a MAJOR contributor, but what is touching your lips ALSO changes taste.
People who are really in to wine will have various wine glasses in their collection which have different metals coating the rim of the glass for this reason.
A metal straw, plastic straw, and paper straw all give a different taste to the beverage you drink.
Pour the soda from a bottle and from a can into similar glasses and run your own blind taste test. See if you actually identify any difference in taste.
Put the bottled soda in an aluminum cup, and the canned soda in a glass container. Their tastes “swap” for you suddenly. Well, probably not entirely, as a more open container means more scent gets to you and more carbonation flies up your nose if it is a fresh pour, so the taste will likely be different from either straight out of the container…
Latest Answers