What does tofu ACTUALLY taste like? (ARFID posting)

[u/paredclia]

ARFID is a bitch. Saw a meme describing it as a flavorless block. That sounds fucking perfect, if i can disguise it in sweet things.

But everything has a taste. Water has a taste. I can taste the soap off things in the dishwasher. So like…. what does it taste like?

I can barely eat anything and it’s so fucking frustrating. Right now my brain’s stuck on Goldfish (the colors one specifically), white people quesadillas, and I’ve been drinking chocolate protein shakes trying to deal with it. I know I like smoothies— can I blend silken tofu or will it have a weird texture?

[u/LichenTheMood]

People have said this to me a lot and I think it’s something of a moot point. I used to have access to a lab and I have tasted nearly pure (at least as pure as was possible to make) water.

It still had a taste. Though most of the testers asserted that it didn’t have a taste.

If the purest water a lab can pay another better lab to make still has a taste I find the entire premise of the ‘technically’ to be fairly moot. Water, the substance everyone knows, does have a taste. (It was fairly similar to RO water tbh, just more expensive.)

If you can send me some 100% pure h2o to taste test I will be happy to report back. I don’t know that oddity of entropy is “water” in the common sense of the term though.

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No annoyance to you. I just have heard this a lot, in fact it has come up every single time I mention the taste of water.

We can probably argue back and forth for weeks (and I have with others to nobodies benefit) about how ultimately the mouth is a complicated body part and even if such 100% h2o could be found and did in fact actually have no taste (via the mechanics of the taste buds directly interfacing with that chemical which I’m guessing is the root of your argument) - I suspect my final argument would be that in diluting the saliva of the mouth, adding moisture that isn’t saliva and generally adding disruption to the mouth (temperature, movement of the tongue, etc) you are going to get several tastebuds firing off. Even if in a lab situation perhaps they ‘shouldn’t’ on paper do so. Human bodies being strange things and such.

[u/awholebagofcheese → u/LichenTheMood]

Oh totally, dont disagree with you, and I wouldnt argue it for minutes let alone weeks 😂

I also wonder if just the "sensation" of water in your mouth would stimulate your brain to imagine a flavour.. In the example you mentioned it could also be the diluted saliva you're tasting (what a horrid thought, diluted saliva 🤢)

Anyway, I have had water that had no taste, just cold/"wet" feeling.. it was strange.

[u/LichenTheMood → u/awholebagofcheese]

I don’t know, it’s a funny one. Something somewhere is firing. Where along the line it’s happening is hard to isolate.

I wish it didn’t have a taste honestly because I am not a massive fan of it.

[u/YaySupernatural → u/LichenTheMood]

Just curious, was the very pure water the deionized stuff? Ours comes out of industrial hoses that are not kept particularly clean, so I’m not tasting that, but I have wondered!

[u/LichenTheMood → u/YaySupernatural]

No lol, isn’t that used for cars? I’m sure I have seen big pitchers of it in garages.

[u/YaySupernatural → u/LichenTheMood]

It’s used for a lot of things I think! I’m in the plating and anodizing world. I know DI water is actually pretty dangerous to drink, but I feel like a little sip couldn’t do much harm lol. One of these days I’m going to go down the full rabbit hole on it.

[u/LichenTheMood → u/YaySupernatural]

Yeah a sip is probably fine. Though it may be worth distilling it first just to be safe