Cooking with MSG - General - Facepunch Forum

[QUOTE=VassikinX3;16937401]Monosodium glutamate, also known as sodium glutamate and MSG, is a sodium salt of the non-essential amino acid glutamic acid. It is used as a food additive and is commonly marketed as a flavour enhancer.[/QUOTE] Your point? -snip- [editline]11:13PM[/editline] Flavour enhancers are commonly added to commercially produced food products (eg. frozen dinners, instant soups, snackfoods) to make them taste more 'savory'. Umami means "savory" so: savory:MSG::salt:saltiness [editline]11:19PM[/editline] No idea if that's how those "is to as is to" work. I was going for: Savory is to MSG as Saltiness is to Salt.

[QUOTE=VassikinX3;16937401]Monosodium glutamate, also known as sodium glutamate and MSG, is a sodium salt of the non-essential amino acid glutamic acid. It is used as a food additive and is commonly marketed as a flavour enhancer.[/QUOTE] I am sorry for unwarranted flaming but... Are you fucking retarded? Did you just quote that not knowing what it even says? That is just a copy paste that proves nothing. You know what else is sodium? Sodium chloride. It is also used as a food additive and is also commonly marketed as a flavor enhancer. You got something against table salt?

What the hell is MSG anyway? JUST salt? What makes it so orgasmic?

[QUOTE=MS-DOS4;16938609]What the hell is MSG anyway? JUST salt? What makes it so orgasmic?[/QUOTE] It's not just salt. It's a salt. The atom Na (Sodium) is very versatile.

[QUOTE=theshortbus;16933347]MSG stimulates receptors in your brain or some complicated shit. It's basically a drug that makes food better. In soviet russia, there used to be cubes of msg that people put in chicken broth and it would taste great. Problem is, constant usage led to hypertension and other high sodium problems.[/QUOTE] This is 100 percent false. In fact I can prove it is false. How can I? Well, if it was true, it would take at least 15 minutes assuming an empty stomach for the effects of it to kick in as it is absorbed through the intestinal walls, into the blood, travels through the circulation system, through the blood-brain barrier, and then binds to the specific receptors in the brain. Nope, that is false. it does not work on the brain in that way. It works directly on the tongue, therefore producing instant results. Also, people seem to be confusing this with table salt. Yes, it is a salt. But that is only chemically/scientifically speaking [B]only[/B] because it contains a sodium cation. MSG tastes completely different than salt. It does not taste salty in ANY way. In fact, as I said before if anyone read, it tastes almost meaty when tasted alone. It is not generally used like table salt. It is almost exclusively used in cooking. MSG is completely safe. How is it safe? Well, MSG is simply a sodium salt of glutamate. MSG is treated exactly like glutamate in the body, especially since once it hits water, the sodium atom becomes an ion and the molecule converts to glutamate. Glutamate is a non-essential amino acid. Why is it non-essential? Well, because it is already produced in the body, therefore there is no need to have an external supply. This is not to say that ingesting more is harmful. No, in fact, just about every food you eat contains natural glutamate. It is vital in cellular metabolism. What I fail to understand is that why I explained what it is multiple times in this thread and yet people are still spewing ignorant bullshit.

My friend threw up after eating some food containing MSG.

Enjoy high blood pressure OP.

[QUOTE=Master117;16920106]This thread? [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=646113&highlight=cooking+with+seamen[/url][/QUOTE] [quote] We raised 400$ for a church during the bake sale becuase people could not get enough of the cream cheese cookies we made. Thanks Semen cookbook[/quote] :suicide: ohgod

[QUOTE=VassikinX3;16933600]If you honestly need to use MSG to make your food taste good, stop cooking.[/QUOTE] If you need butter/salt/sugar/etc to make your food taste good, stop cooking.

Thread title made me think this [img]http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/6720/cookingwithmgs.png[/img]

I bought a bottle of Accent a long time ago. Tastes like salt, guess MSG does nothing for me.

[QUOTE=Doriol;16937626]Cibo Matto is awesome. :colbert:[/QUOTE] at least we can agree on something doriol

it doesent matter if its healthy or not IMO after eating it you feel like shit.

[QUOTE=arimi;16948077]it doesent matter if its healthy or not IMO after eating it you feel like shit.[/QUOTE] Psychological, unless you always do after you eat. Salt is present in most foods, and glutamate is naturally present in many foods.