Our traditional Czech fairy tale is named "Sůl nad zlato" what means "Salt over gold." It is about kingdom. King has tree daughters. They had to say, how much they love their father. First says "I love you more then all glittering gems." Second says "I love you more then the priciest gold." And the third says "I love you more then salt." It is really nice fairy tale 😁
A very similar thing happens in "Cap o'Rushes" which is a version of Cinderella. A father ask her 3 daughters how much they love him, the youngest one, and his favorite, answers him that she loves him more than meat loves salt, the father gets furious thinking his favorite daughter doesn't love him so he throws her out of the house. The girl then has to disguise herself, makes a dress and hood out rushes and finds work as a scullery maid on a big house. Thing happen, he falls madly in love with her and when they finally marry she invites her father to her wedding without telling him who she is. She serves him meat without salt and only then he realizes how much his daughter, whom he thinks he'll never see again, he starts crying at the wedding and then she finally reunites with him
@@ItoNarasimha yeah... The king gets insulted and exiles his daughter but also bans salt in the kingdom. They destroy all the salt so that there is none. Then you kind of just observe their struggles of how food is bad and all the other problems. Meanwhile the daughter is taken in by an old herb collector lady and live happily together. In the end, the kind regrets it, not just kicking out his daughter, whom he loved dearly, but also his stupidity of how salt is truly valuable despite its commonality. My favourite part is when the king visit a peasant woman who kept her salt and offers her riches and diamonds and she just kicks him out. "What am i going to put o my bread? Gems? Get off my lawn! " 😂😂
It's my opinion that the more sugar you eat, the worse that bitter tastes will seem. And that goes for artificial sweeteners, really, anything that hyper-stimulates the sweet receptors. When I quit sugar and sweeteners, suddenly all the bitter aromatic flavours tasted way way nicer. I remember the first time I drank black coffee, I spat it out as if I'd accidentally drunk some industrial waste, now I love black coffee and think it's ruined by any sweeteners, sugar or milk. I now love me some good rich mustard, I get through those little pots of coleman's mustard so damn fast I don't use quite as much of it as I used to use Ketchup. But I think a sweet tooth is acquired by eating sweet stuff often enough that sweetness loses its potency and you need more sweet stuff. Stop having the sweet stuff and you'll stop wanting it and your tastes may change as mine did. Ketchup is just about the sweetness, the sugar is the overriding taste with a bit of vinegar and tomato so it doesn't taste like literal candy, but it's all about being sweet. Tomato puree is absolutely not an acceptable substitute. Though I don't really like the taste of pepper, I only add a hint of pepper to my seasoning mix to increase the availability of turmeric. I can't stand it when one seasoning like pepper is added in such large amounts all you can taste is pepper.
@@Treblaine We eat way too little bitter foods. No seeds anymore in grapes, cucumbers, melons etc anymore. We also don't eat enough sour. All fruits, apples for example are much sweeter than in their wild form. Everything is just sweet. It plain und unhealthy. ... and actually disgusting if you have a trained taste. ...
The most common argument i see here is that pepper tastes "neutral" which is simply not true and you would know that if you ever had freshly ground pepper, the real reason is because people in the west are used to this flavour, it is expected and as such it seems normal, ask people from other places and they will tell you of wildly different spices that they use every day, pepper doesnt have any objective quality that no other spice has, salt on the other hand of course, reigns supreme.
as someone who has tried a variety of other spices in cooking and seasoning, I will admit that pepper is a very easy spice to use. It's hard to go wrong with pepper.
Your not America. Here, it is salt and pepper and I must agree it is sickening how redundant it is. Let us revolutionize the salt and cumin combo dear sibling character for it is an important endeavor.(and salt and paprika of course. )
A very influential king, fun fact king Louis the 14th was the longest reigning monarch in history(with verified dates) beating out queen Elizabeth by nearly 2 years
@@briancooley8777 "potassium, zinc, copper, iron" those are all metals. Salt is a crystal, although it is commonly mixed with lower quantities of metals or minerals.
Pepper is not just black pepper, there is green pepper and also white pepper. White pepper cost 2x more than black pepper. All those comes from the same plant, just processed differently...and all taste different too...from some one planted pepper
He talked about salt and peper and briefly their history but not really why peper taste is liked so mucht, or why salt and pepper are used in so many dishes as standard seasoning from a cullinairy point of view. I feel like he talks about the subject but does not really or fully answer the question.
As he discussed in the video, it's because Pepper is an arbitrary choice, most likely influenced by the personal spice of choice of Louis IV. Unlike salt, pepper is not an essential nutrient, so there isn't really any scientific/biological basis why it's popular. Personally, I always enjoyed the variety of spices, pepper is a great spice but it's a pale choice if your dish only contains salt and pepper.
@@yvrelna That's true, but I guess maybe it could be because of all the spices, the peppercorn has one of the most "neutral" flavours? It's just piquant, it doesn't taste strongly of anything but heat. Other spices have stronger flavours that don't go with everything. Peppercorn goes with pretty much everything. It tastes good with fish, good with white or red meats, good with roots, vegetables, leaves, even fruits like tomatoes or strawberries. It's a boring but very safe choice.
I appreciate how he specifies “western cuisine”, because growing up in a Chinese household, we surely don’t use all that much pepper in cooking, at least for the region my family is from. We use a disproportionally large amount of garlic, scallion, ginger, and cilantro instead 😂
@sprock absolutely no chance that garlic is as commonly used in the west. Chillis I could see for some households, but many genuinely are those "black pepper is spicy chilly is too much" in the colder parts of the west. When you look at western recipes, most still toss in black pepper even if it doesn't make sense. I don't know what world you're living in, but I wish I was in it
@@AmalingAmericans are really weird, im my country we eat so much garlic (its delicious) and all kinds of pepper hot and non hot, that we have a reputation. Ironic given we are called vampires.
All spices can't matter until each spice matters. Have you looked at the statistics? HAVE YOU EVEN LOOKED AT THE STATISTICS!?! lmgtfy.com/?q=%22The+statistics%22
While I agree with you on the need for more spice representation, I can not support denouncing pepper. It is my very favorite spice and should be allowed to be the star some times.
I believe you forgot the medical application for salt in the ancient world, Also when these two elements come together they may balance out an food item that's too sweet or bitter.
Awesome episode! Thanks for suggesting the embrace of other flavors. In fact, in most Moroccan local restaurants cumin and chili powder is served with salt, but not pepper. I love your videos, big thanks, and keep them coming.
Salt and paprika Salt and garlic powder Salt and oregano Salt and cinnamon Salt and some other spice Spice and wolf Salt and allspice Salt and Allstate Allstate and State Farm Salt and cumin Salt and Help I'm trapped in a UA-cam comment Salt and red pepper Salt and mustard Salt and more salt
Pepper adds a background flavor to almost everthing I cook. It rounds out the flavor, even if you don't always notice it. A lot of spices can be used as background flavors, that help set the scene for the main ingredients.
As a person whom frequently cooks with spice, I find myself agreeing with you, so many people just have salt and pepper but spice like life is more than just black and white, to be able to fully enjoy it you have to experience the full spectrum of flavor.
+Sklin different cultures make different foods? You think Canadians eat rice/tortillas/carne asada regularly? Sure some, but not most Don't know why you felt the need to put a passive aggressive comment like that
K A R T I K I don’t like pink Himalayan simply cause it’s a trend. Trends are really stupid. Especially when people think a pink rock is special or even magical 🤦 Plus I’m perfectly fine with Sea salt. It tastes great and doesn’t have those anti-caking agents like in table salt. :)
@@briancooley8777 But sea salt isn't always iodized, so you should be careful about that. Also let the man enjoy his Himalayan rock salt. I mean I agree that it's dumb to think rocks have magical powers, but I think he just likes it because of the taste.
It's a different kind of spicy, but you can certainly make soups and chili's unedible with too much and it's because it's too spicy. But, it's different than say habenero's.
It depends on the quality of your pepper. The ground black pepper you find in mass foodservice won't be really spicy unless you pour half of the shaker in your plate.
One quick correction about the early European use of pepper to mask the flavor of spoiling meat: There are records dating at least as far back as the medieval period regarding thr delivery of meat. They specify quantities, times of day to be delivered, and (I believe, but doo't remember for certain) also for time between slaughter and delivery. So, they weren't eating spoiled meat anymore than than the people I saw in Guinea 20 years ago. They also didn't have refrigeration etc and simply bought their meat and fish freshly caught or butchered by the side of the road.
Right! And one more thing to keep in mind is that the people who could afford pepper in the Middle Ages and early modern times were rich. Rich people would have been able to afford fresh high quality meat. The people who might have eaten stuff that was a little past it's prime (not much, mind you! People didn't want food poisoning) were the ones who couldn't have afforded pepper anyways
@@IrenaDeacon That we like it hot! :D Most of our famous dishes (gulyás, paprikás, pörkölt, fisherman's soup/halászlé) need paprika spice in it, with out it is just not the same. :)
One of my favorite lines from the tv show Roseanne was when Jackie was cooking for the family while Roseanne was injured and asked her where she kept her spices. Roseanne replied "in the salt & pepper shakers". Hilarious!
Hey, I was wondering what source you used for the "6 grams of sodium chloride a day" because every source I've checked recommends a significantly less amount, about 2.4 grams or less was what kept coming up. Thank you!
This felt like an episode of Brian David Gilbert's Unraveled series and, I literally cannot think of a more fun way to learn about history from PBS. My compliments to the chefs of this dish.
The most common type of pepper used in Europe before the 16th century was actually long pepper: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_pepper They are often mixed up with black pepper but it doesn't come from the same plant.
They probably only have stale pepper powder or something, or grew up being force fed peppered margarine pasta, the sorry sods. They'd change their tune if they ever got to eat a good grilled steak.
More diversity in spices is a good thing, but what you fail to understand is that pepper is so famous because it deserves to be. It's a unique spice in the sense that it just works very well in a lot of cases, while most other spices are better used in moderation and only in certain combinations.
Get the book Salt that he lists. I read it years ago and then passed it around, even giving it as Christmas presents one year. You might think it would be dull, but it is anything but, it basically shows how salt shaped countries, political systems, trading all over the world, replaced money and even jump-started chemistry in some instances. Best of all the author has a great sense of humor so it keeps you hooked.
pepper was not used to mask the taste of spoiled meat. pepper was much more expensive than meat. it would have been cheaper to buy new meat than cover it up with pepper.
Flys and certain other bugs and microbes dislike many of the spices and herbs we eat. Thyme is currently distilled to make some organic antiseptics. Cinnamon oil has been used as an insecticide. Spices used to be used in fruit cakes, which were often used as rations for long journeys. More likely pepper and other spices, with salt, were used to preserve the food: though, trying to use it sparingly, because they were expensive.
HillMeister's HQ Or more likely as a preservative before the food could "go south." Most "nasties" dislike most of the herbs and spices used in cooking, including pepper.
There is no such thing as the "oldest language". Many languages can be traced back quite a bit, but there's no first language. A video on linguistics in general though would be interesting. If you like linguistics, check out these channels: Xidnaf, The Ling Space, NativLang, and LangFocus.
Awesomely interesting clip! Although, you guys know that having salt and pepper on a table is extremely western. Even if this western tradition can be found in East Asia or in Africa, it does not detract from the fact that, traditionally, they are much less preferred over Chili powder, soy sauce or the like, in those areas. Thanks for the interesting clips and keep at it!
Salt and pepper seem to be the only spices that taste pretty much the same when applied to food regardless of it being before or after it was cooked. Like you wouldnt season a steak with more garlic powder after you already finished cooking it but if you wanted to add some more salt/pepper it wouldn't taste much different compared to as if you'd added more salt/pepper before
Depends on how far back you want to consider. Moving goods from the coastlines to the inner regions of a continent requires a pretty heavy investment not only in roads but way stations and patrolling, and even then it could take weeks or months to move goods across such distances IF the destination had something worth brining back. So coastal people had easy access, central ones did not. If one was lucky enough find a nice easily mined deposit then you were in good shape, but a lot of people had to buy it from other regions.
Salt may be very easy to find, but it still takes a lot of work to convert it into a usable form and then transport it to everywhere that it is needed. And there's a HUGE demand for it.
You are spoiled by the convenience of modern life. The industrial revolution made the gathering of minerals (i.e. salt) infinitely easier. Back when everything had to be done by the strength of man and beast, it was an immensely laborious process. Not to mention how perilous it was to transport a commodity that could be lost if it were caught in a rainfall during transport (don't forget, transportation could take months prior to the advent of the locomotive). The same applies to aluminium - during Napolean's time it was actually more precious than gold.. but once electricity was discovered and the chemistry of aluminium understood, we were able to make our own aluminium - in a matter of months it went from the most precious metal on earth to the cheapest metal on earth. The conveniences of modern life cause many people to take for granted how difficult even the simplest things were long ago.
I found the picture, they say its salt at least, don't believe me here's the link. www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photo-salt-crystals-macro-photography-image36648325
So funny! I spurned pepper my entire life, and embraced a rich world of spice just as he suggests. Last year or so, I gave it a chance and now I'm doing the opposite - using *just* pepper (and salt) on everything, and loving it, even though I know full well how wonderful it might be to use saffron or celery seed or basil! xD
For me the big switch came when I started grinding my own pepper. I grew up with preground pepper & never understood why it was such a big deal. Then I tried freshly ground pepper & realized there's a LOT of amazing flavor in pepper! It's just that the best flavors get lost quickly if it sits around already ground up very long. Now preground pepper is banished in my house, but I own 4 pepper grinders!
First, pepper is not universal. In some other countries you get other things on your table instead. Still, you seem to have missed the reason. In western cooking, salt and pepper are present in virtually every savory dish already. Adding more enables the diner to change the balance slightly without actually altering the flavor. If you put cumin (for example) on something, you've immediately pushed the flavor off in a completely different direction, unless it was fajitas or an Indian curry. Finally, many spices need to be cooked or you'll get serious indigestion. Black pepper is cooked already (sun dried) so it doesn't have that problem.
Darn, he salty about the pepper...
Gurjinder Singh get out.
Hahahahaha =)))
ha i get it lol
but terrible pun. lots of people gonna be 'salty' over that
Leave.
Fun fact: In Dutch, when you want to call something 'very expensive', you'd call it 'pepper expensive'
MrsRobinNL in Afrikaans they kept that
Haha yup, “peperduur” 🤣
I’m going to drink Dr Expensive
Po poora
Fun fact: who cares
Salt is water soluble, Pepper is fat soluble. That's why they pair so well.
jon compu
pepper is not soluble.
Pepper isn’t but it’s chemical compound pipeline is. So yes it is fat soluble
Pegasus
Thanks!
I didn't know!
That is nothing unique for pepper.
By the way, some of the most poisonous salts are water soluble.
@@MegaBanne Yeah, usually plant derived alkaloids can only be extracted with fats or non polar solvents.
Our traditional Czech fairy tale is named "Sůl nad zlato" what means "Salt over gold." It is about kingdom. King has tree daughters. They had to say, how much they love their father. First says "I love you more then all glittering gems." Second says "I love you more then the priciest gold." And the third says "I love you more then salt." It is really nice fairy tale 😁
'I love you more than salt' 'lmaooo
A very similar thing happens in "Cap o'Rushes" which is a version of Cinderella.
A father ask her 3 daughters how much they love him, the youngest one, and his favorite, answers him that she loves him more than meat loves salt, the father gets furious thinking his favorite daughter doesn't love him so he throws her out of the house. The girl then has to disguise herself, makes a dress and hood out rushes and finds work as a scullery maid on a big house.
Thing happen, he falls madly in love with her and when they finally marry she invites her father to her wedding without telling him who she is.
She serves him meat without salt and only then he realizes how much his daughter, whom he thinks he'll never see again, he starts crying at the wedding and then she finally reunites with him
@@ItoNarasimha yeah... The king gets insulted and exiles his daughter but also bans salt in the kingdom. They destroy all the salt so that there is none. Then you kind of just observe their struggles of how food is bad and all the other problems.
Meanwhile the daughter is taken in by an old herb collector lady and live happily together.
In the end, the kind regrets it, not just kicking out his daughter, whom he loved dearly, but also his stupidity of how salt is truly valuable despite its commonality.
My favourite part is when the king visit a peasant woman who kept her salt and offers her riches and diamonds and she just kicks him out. "What am i going to put o my bread? Gems? Get off my lawn! " 😂😂
Sounds like a very long-winded way of saying "salt is very tasty"
Why ketchup and mustard?
Especially why mustard?
@@beth8775
Mustard stimulates the digestion.
But why ketchup.
It's full of sugar.
Paper Boat ketchup was only invented to make spoiled foods taste better.
It's my opinion that the more sugar you eat, the worse that bitter tastes will seem. And that goes for artificial sweeteners, really, anything that hyper-stimulates the sweet receptors. When I quit sugar and sweeteners, suddenly all the bitter aromatic flavours tasted way way nicer. I remember the first time I drank black coffee, I spat it out as if I'd accidentally drunk some industrial waste, now I love black coffee and think it's ruined by any sweeteners, sugar or milk. I now love me some good rich mustard, I get through those little pots of coleman's mustard so damn fast I don't use quite as much of it as I used to use Ketchup.
But I think a sweet tooth is acquired by eating sweet stuff often enough that sweetness loses its potency and you need more sweet stuff. Stop having the sweet stuff and you'll stop wanting it and your tastes may change as mine did. Ketchup is just about the sweetness, the sugar is the overriding taste with a bit of vinegar and tomato so it doesn't taste like literal candy, but it's all about being sweet. Tomato puree is absolutely not an acceptable substitute.
Though I don't really like the taste of pepper, I only add a hint of pepper to my seasoning mix to increase the availability of turmeric. I can't stand it when one seasoning like pepper is added in such large amounts all you can taste is pepper.
@@Treblaine
We eat way too little bitter foods.
No seeds anymore in grapes, cucumbers, melons etc anymore.
We also don't eat enough sour. All fruits, apples for example are much sweeter than in their wild form.
Everything is just sweet. It plain und unhealthy. ... and actually disgusting if you have a trained taste. ...
I don't even even need salt in my food since i get my daily dose from online games...
😝
True
You are not the only one lol
and I got overdose LOL
W
someones salty about pepper
Puns for days
That's one salty joke
David Bodenheimer pepper up
That joke was so-diumb.
Like your spelling.
The most common argument i see here is that pepper tastes "neutral" which is simply not true and you would know that if you ever had freshly ground pepper, the real reason is because people in the west are used to this flavour, it is expected and as such it seems normal, ask people from other places and they will tell you of wildly different spices that they use every day, pepper doesnt have any objective quality that no other spice has, salt on the other hand of course, reigns supreme.
One pepper corn ball can actually taste a little different from the same batch. Like a little chocolate.
as someone who has tried a variety of other spices in cooking and seasoning, I will admit that pepper is a very easy spice to use. It's hard to go wrong with pepper.
Actually, in Bulgaria, our go-to combo is salt and paprika
SHARENA SALT
Your not America. Here, it is salt and pepper and I must agree it is sickening how redundant it is. Let us revolutionize the salt and cumin combo dear sibling character for it is an important endeavor.(and salt and paprika of course. )
Ok boomer
wtf no
ne znam vie v koq Bulgaria jiveete ama ppc navsqkude si e sol i piper xdddd
Q:why salt and pepper
A:because the king wants it.
Alzera Delacroix wdym?
The King: I want salt and pepper!
Everyone since then: Same
A very influential king, fun fact king Louis the 14th was the longest reigning monarch in history(with verified dates) beating out queen Elizabeth by nearly 2 years
The best place to search for salt is the one side of every fandom that ever exists
What?
You say fandom, I say Percy Jackson.
Wtf
xd
Cool
Public service announcement: I spelled Gandhi wrong at 2:43! This is because I'm a normal human who sometimes makes mistakes!
LOL M8
How dare you sometimes make mistakes?
#AnythingButTypos
#AynthingButTpyos
#It'sOkayToBeDUMB
3:09 Salt amplifies the sense of salty... thanks for sharing.
Ha
Ha
Ha
I wish my history class would be as interesting as this XD
Dawn Bringer Email your teachers these video links?
Quagswag Gru yesssss
Quagswag Gru I wish my history class would resemble my internet history😂
Quagswag Gru Me too, then I may have payed more attention in class 😂
xd
0:46 that’s where you’re wrong (I was a weird 6 year old)
What?
It is wrong tho. We eat potassium, zinc, copper, iron etc. all the time. We need these minerals to survive too so he lied.
lmao
@@briancooley8777 I think he meant in its pure form lol...we dont put pure iron or zinc in our food. :p
@@briancooley8777 "potassium, zinc, copper, iron" those are all metals. Salt is a crystal, although it is commonly mixed with lower quantities of metals or minerals.
Pepper is not just black pepper, there is green pepper and also white pepper. White pepper cost 2x more than black pepper. All those comes from the same plant, just processed differently...and all taste different too...from some one planted pepper
pink pepper is also a thing, you can buy 4 season pepper that has white/black/pink/green all in one, its the only type of pepper i use
I made masala chai tea as favours for my Christmas-themed engagement party, and I added green and red peppercorns, it looked so cute! :D
Kevin Burris Pink pepper? that is new to me. where does it come from; it can't be from the same plant.
monkiram You are referring to chilli rather then the paper referred to in the video
No I'm referring to peppercorns. Chilli is a fruit with flat seeds, it doesn't come from/have peppercorns
without salt and pepper who's going to push it real good
Hahaha. Do not forget Spinderella,now.
Probably salt and "tuma-rick"
*****
groans* Nice try though.
Or white pepper dust, which is more popular in southern China than coarsely ground black pepper.
sichuan pepper is the three type of peppercorns
I get at least few kg of salt a day by just playing CS
Same with (Insert common game)
looooool
A few kg?
Overwatch: "Hold my beer"
UA-cam comment is the most rich salt is
Nothing beats the salt index of shitty team mates in World of Tanks.
"He hate us, 'cause he ain't us."
- Peppers
I love you pepper 😍💕
@@nhemsokea2621 same
I love pepper
I prefer pepper to salt
He hate us, ‘c’us’ he ate us.
He got a bit salty about pepper at the end of this video
hehe, exactly what I wanted to write too :-)
I see what you did there.
He talked about salt and peper and briefly their history but not really why peper taste is liked so mucht, or why salt and pepper are used in so many dishes as standard seasoning from a cullinairy point of view.
I feel like he talks about the subject but does not really or fully answer the question.
A2MB5 4:42
He did. He just did so from a historical, not a scientific viewpoint. Except for that bit about how essential salt is.
Its his techniche in every video he talks too much and we even forget about the actual quiestion
As he discussed in the video, it's because Pepper is an arbitrary choice, most likely influenced by the personal spice of choice of Louis IV. Unlike salt, pepper is not an essential nutrient, so there isn't really any scientific/biological basis why it's popular.
Personally, I always enjoyed the variety of spices, pepper is a great spice but it's a pale choice if your dish only contains salt and pepper.
@@yvrelna That's true, but I guess maybe it could be because of all the spices, the peppercorn has one of the most "neutral" flavours? It's just piquant, it doesn't taste strongly of anything but heat. Other spices have stronger flavours that don't go with everything. Peppercorn goes with pretty much everything. It tastes good with fish, good with white or red meats, good with roots, vegetables, leaves, even fruits like tomatoes or strawberries. It's a boring but very safe choice.
Already 2 people are salty for pepper.
two people are spiced from salt.
get roasted with a light seasoning of salt!!!! ohhhhh
+Erika Zimmerman, MD oh snap this argument is 'heating' up lel
+Skeletor Jopko k den
This is an assalt on my senses.
I appreciate how he specifies “western cuisine”, because growing up in a Chinese household, we surely don’t use all that much pepper in cooking, at least for the region my family is from. We use a disproportionally large amount of garlic, scallion, ginger, and cilantro instead 😂
Here in Colombia is similar, but we also use tomatoes and cumin.
@sprock absolutely no chance that garlic is as commonly used in the west. Chillis I could see for some households, but many genuinely are those "black pepper is spicy chilly is too much" in the colder parts of the west. When you look at western recipes, most still toss in black pepper even if it doesn't make sense. I don't know what world you're living in, but I wish I was in it
@@AmalingAmericans are really weird, im my country we eat so much garlic (its delicious) and all kinds of pepper hot and non hot, that we have a reputation. Ironic given we are called vampires.
Do you commonly use Szechuan pepper. I find it in many Chinese inspired dishes
"That's what I said! Sodium chloride!"
"saying it's chemical name just makes you more stupid" from a meme
Fresh Prince of Bellaire?
Go Paprika!
I find this utterly hilarious
Go old bay!!
paprika is a spice mixture not individual
It's a pretty good movie
Salt and pineapple.
#AllSpicesMatter
All spices can't matter until each spice matters. Have you looked at the statistics? HAVE YOU EVEN LOOKED AT THE STATISTICS!?!
lmgtfy.com/?q=%22The+statistics%22
+Michael Winter Yep. Thanks for googleing that for me!
if i read those correct i see 10 percent of all spices causing 50 percent of the Heartburn and 30 percent of the diarrehea
Jesus Christus #TacoBell
ummmm #allspicematters
When you were naming cities I thought of Salt Lake City
Hamilton Potter Your trophy is in the mail, I'm sure.
Where I live
snap my left shoulder
Same
I like pepper!
rehab joe buffet me too i put ground pepper in my hand and lick it
Heretic!
Yeah, me too!
literally was cooking in school and i fillled the bowl with pepper cause i like it so much
Was about to use the exact same comment, so just liked yours instead.
While I agree with you on the need for more spice representation, I can not support denouncing pepper. It is my very favorite spice and should be allowed to be the star some times.
it sure is in my house!
Oregano ftw
We don't need more salt in our diet! Pepper also works against cancer while eating too much salt (like most people!) is harmful
+Cubed six grams a day definitely doesn't sound good lol
+Cubed six grams a day definitely doesn't sound good lol
Why the hate on pepper? Why not salt, pepper and anything else?
its because pepper is black
+Daniel Byal seems legit
+Panzer Kunst leems segit
+Taarush Vemulapalli tou yalkin ghit suy? lol
Because favouring pepper at all is arbitrary.
One spice to rule them all, one spice to find them. One spice to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
*Ring
Mel Melodies Perfectamundo.
#BlackSpicesMatter
yes!!!😂😂😂😂😂
#AllSpiceMatters
#BlueSpicesMatter
#SpiceMatters
+Carlos Jiménez #BlackSpicesMatter
I believe you forgot the medical application for salt in the ancient world, Also when these two elements come together they may balance out an food item that's too sweet or bitter.
Could you at least elaborate on salt's medical applications??
Awesome episode! Thanks for suggesting the embrace of other flavors. In fact, in most Moroccan local restaurants cumin and chili powder is served with salt, but not pepper. I love your videos, big thanks, and keep them coming.
Salt and paprika
Salt and garlic powder
Salt and oregano
Salt and cinnamon
Salt and some other spice
Spice and wolf
Salt and allspice
Salt and Allstate
Allstate and State Farm
Salt and cumin
Salt and Help I'm trapped in a UA-cam comment
Salt and red pepper
Salt and mustard
Salt and more salt
Salt in CSGO Russians
spice and wolf...
garlic salt is better
Salty and butthurt
Salt and meth
you seem a bit salty about pepper
InsayneDaRoss STAHP NU MORE PUN.
Hamster Seed Stop using the neko language.
PurpleGRAPES and Billyfax0r Second account What's that.
Hamster Seed *facepalm* you are talking in the neko language it is what neko speaks to, a neko is a half cat and half human it originated from japan.
FAC3theMUSIK hi
Pepper adds a background flavor to almost everthing I cook. It rounds out the flavor, even if you don't always notice it. A lot of spices can be used as background flavors, that help set the scene for the main ingredients.
If you use pepper for "background" flavor then you american dont have proper pepper, especially fresh ground one.
As a person whom frequently cooks with spice, I find myself agreeing with you, so many people just have salt and pepper but spice like life is more than just black and white, to be able to fully enjoy it you have to experience the full spectrum of flavor.
I love using mexican spices, even when preparing burger meat.
Hadi Hemmat
Sounds great, I'm more of a barbecue guru myself, the best combination of smoke and spice can really make you feel like you're in heaven.
to be honest the guy that made pepper be salt's only friend is probably the only person on earth that actually likes pepper.
Alex Gluch
Peppers not terrible but there are far better herbs and spices.
Boglenight it really is the 5th worst thing I've ever tasted.
I'm Latino so I'm used to using every spice but pepper
I'm Hispanic and I love Pepper
+Sklin apparently so... I don't really know where I'm from, so gg there :(
Me too but I'm Indian
I commented before seeing the video, but seriously; at least in North India Blach pepper in its crushed form, isn't very popular
+Sklin different cultures make different foods? You think Canadians eat rice/tortillas/carne asada regularly? Sure some, but not most
Don't know why you felt the need to put a passive aggressive comment like that
When you started your speech about pepper I stood up slowly and put my hand on my heart.
5:20 #AnythingButPepper
I choose salt and chilly powder.
CHILLY POWDER NATION
And himalayan rock salt.... Tastes different... But i personally like it over the regular.
K A R T I K I don’t like pink Himalayan simply cause it’s a trend. Trends are really stupid. Especially when people think a pink rock is special or even magical 🤦
Plus I’m perfectly fine with Sea salt. It tastes great and doesn’t have those anti-caking agents like in table salt. :)
@@briancooley8777 But sea salt isn't always iodized, so you should be careful about that. Also let the man enjoy his Himalayan rock salt. I mean I agree that it's dumb to think rocks have magical powers, but I think he just likes it because of the taste.
@@briancooley8777 but it's not a trend everywhere
I feel like this video was just an excuse to hate on pepper tbh...
let's get salty about pepper
are you feeling.......SALTY!?!?!?!?
+Hyperblader Wrong!
+Hunter Voitier re-evaluate your life.
pepper>Salt
Or on blacks. lol
Ebony and ivory living in perfect harmony :')
I thought you were talking about black people
Wrong. Pepper is fantastic.
THANK YOU!
Agree. Especially on beef.
But I do like what Chef Anne Burrell said about salt and pepper: They don't have to be married, they can just date.
I totally agree! Covering steak in pepper is the only way to make it palatable (But then again, I don't like steak).
What steak u eating
“Stay hungry
Stay foolish
Stay spicy
And curious”
Steve jobs
it should be salt, pepper, and paprika
or any combination of salt + one herb and one spice that would work
LARAUJO salt pepper garlic is the best imo
Cumin
LARAUJO TheOdd1sOut profile picture.
can't agree more... salt pepper and paprika on a poached egg is perfect.
Tbh idek what paprika tastes like
You don't NEED to consume 6 grams of salt each day! That's the upper limit of the recommended daily intake!
Tira Tira I can confirm this. There is also a minimum, though. It is around 2-3g. But the problem in the western world is generally too much salt.
What is a gram
Jason Odermatt it's what civilised people use as a weight system but in case your genuinely asking 1 gram is equivalent to around 0.035 ounces
+Teethgrinder 83
A gram isn't a weight system, it's one of the units of mass used in the metric system.
Goreuncle yeah I know, it's part of the metric system, I misspoke
Black pepper isn't even that spicy...
It's a different kind of spicy, but you can certainly make soups and chili's unedible with too much and it's because it's too spicy. But, it's different than say habenero's.
It depends on the quality of your pepper. The ground black pepper you find in mass foodservice won't be really spicy unless you pour half of the shaker in your plate.
Lily true compared to a good chillie
Lily I wanna know where you come from
Lily come to India and I'll show Wut exactly pepper is to taste
Love that this guy knows how to show emotion without shouting. I hate shouty UA-cam videos! 👍🏻
Being an Indian, I see spices of every colors :/
pink?
Emmanuel Exhume maybe himalaian salt? lol but i cant think of a blue one
Indian food is the best. Makes eating vegetarian actually palatable.
Yeah, we see by your english.
And smell of spices of every colour.
Looks like things just got, "too spicy for the pepper".
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA , i have three shirts and 4 hats with Francines catchphrase
shut up francine
😂😂😂
Who else put pepper on their Kraft Mac n Cheese when they were a kid?
I still do
Everyone does that.
I still put a sh-t ton of pepper on mine
I still do :D
I did not. But I do now. And, on pizza.
One quick correction about the early European use of pepper to mask the flavor of spoiling meat: There are records dating at least as far back as the medieval period regarding thr delivery of meat. They specify quantities, times of day to be delivered, and (I believe, but doo't remember for certain) also for time between slaughter and delivery. So, they weren't eating spoiled meat anymore than than the people I saw in Guinea 20 years ago. They also didn't have refrigeration etc and simply bought their meat and fish freshly caught or butchered by the side of the road.
Right! And one more thing to keep in mind is that the people who could afford pepper in the Middle Ages and early modern times were rich. Rich people would have been able to afford fresh high quality meat. The people who might have eaten stuff that was a little past it's prime (not much, mind you! People didn't want food poisoning) were the ones who couldn't have afforded pepper anyways
Why you got to hate on the black one? #BlackSpicesMatter
😂😂😂
Genius
Black spice taste delicious... #BLACKSPICEMATTERS
+Leoven no way
+Leoven haha!
I love pepper. It makes my meat taste savory.
░KenLinx░ r u talking about ur 1mm punisher
Rvatina "his"
"It's Okay To Be Smart" who says that it isn't okay?
onee There are many people that Bully other people because they are smart. They think it is not ok to Be smart
Most people in my country they deem smart people as cocky assholes.
Stupid people, obviously.
Because I need them both on my scrambled eggs
Just imagine some jerk put cinnamon and mustard on his eggs... I've seen one once and it was a gross smell
@Frost XT sounds pretty good
Sriracha as well
Red Chili powder and turmeric. It’s a unusual combination but tasty
*YOURE SUPPOSED TO PUSH THE BUTTONS WITH THE PICTURES OF FOOD ON EM*
that's what I said, sodium chloride
OK MAGIC MAN
In Hungary, our go-to combo is salt, pepper and paprika.
What does it represent ?
@@IrenaDeacon That we like it hot! :D Most of our famous dishes (gulyás, paprikás, pörkölt, fisherman's soup/halászlé) need paprika spice in it, with out it is just not the same. :)
Who asked?
I use salt and cumin/cayenne in most of my meals
Cayenne is nice on fries
I'll try that sometime
Gotta be careful with the cumin or else your whole house will smell bad
#saltandmustardmasterrace
One of my favorite lines from the tv show Roseanne was when Jackie was cooking for the family while Roseanne was injured and asked her where she kept her spices. Roseanne replied "in the salt & pepper shakers". Hilarious!
The one who controls the Spice, controls the Univers.
Hey, I was wondering what source you used for the "6 grams of sodium chloride a day"
because every source I've checked recommends a significantly less amount, about 2.4 grams or less was what kept coming up. Thank you!
in mexico we use salt and lime in almost everything
So very true. Do t for get about the the chiles.
+Migool and the good ass food
+Jorge Serrano true
omg you just made my mouth water, wtf! XD I want some albondigas now. #missmygrandma
who else instantly imagined a bunch of little carne asada tacos with salt and lime in their heads and got hungry? XD #nomnom
This felt like an episode of Brian David Gilbert's Unraveled series and, I literally cannot think of a more fun way to learn about history from PBS.
My compliments to the chefs of this dish.
The most common type of pepper used in Europe before the 16th century was actually long pepper:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_pepper
They are often mixed up with black pepper but it doesn't come from the same plant.
Why so salty when it comes to pepper?
Green_Dragon13 salt rules
They probably only have stale pepper powder or something, or grew up being force fed peppered margarine pasta, the sorry sods. They'd change their tune if they ever got to eat a good grilled steak.
More diversity in spices is a good thing, but what you fail to understand is that pepper is so famous because it deserves to be. It's a unique spice in the sense that it just works very well in a lot of cases, while most other spices are better used in moderation and only in certain combinations.
Get the book Salt that he lists. I read it years ago and then passed it around, even giving it as Christmas presents one year. You might think it would be dull, but it is anything but, it basically shows how salt shaped countries, political systems, trading all over the world, replaced money and even jump-started chemistry in some instances. Best of all the author has a great sense of humor so it keeps you hooked.
pepper was not used to mask the taste of spoiled meat. pepper was much more expensive than meat. it would have been cheaper to buy new meat than cover it up with pepper.
Kanru Spices have been used for that yes
Flys and certain other bugs and microbes dislike many of the spices and herbs we eat.
Thyme is currently distilled to make some organic antiseptics. Cinnamon oil has been used as an insecticide.
Spices used to be used in fruit cakes, which were often used as rations for long journeys.
More likely pepper and other spices, with salt, were used to preserve the food: though, trying to use it sparingly, because they were expensive.
HillMeister's HQ Or more likely as a preservative before the food could "go south." Most "nasties" dislike most of the herbs and spices used in cooking, including pepper.
Thank you! This is, of course, completely accurate.
You get some points for calling sea water “That blue wet stuff”
I can't get enough pepper. It's great.
+zh11147 anarchy!!
i don't even know why but I can't have a salad without a lot of pepper
there is also sichuan pepper
Fun video! Good to know Louis was the guy that just called it for us all
Can you please do a video on the oldest language.
would like to see a video on that, always been fascinated by language
oldest language is viking
+CLAY clay Francis it really isn't, I can name many languages that are much older sanskrit, proto indo European,ancient Egyptian
There is no such thing as the "oldest language". Many languages can be traced back quite a bit, but there's no first language. A video on linguistics in general though would be interesting. If you like linguistics, check out these channels: Xidnaf, The Ling Space, NativLang, and LangFocus.
Asian life:
We have soy sauce and vinegar
Unless you're in Maryland, then Old Bay is the only spice you ever need.
Old Bay contains black pepper though. YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE PEPPER!
season all & Tony chachere
I think that is grammatically wrong
Lol I used to live there. Forgot about yall's obsession with Old Bay! 😂 Great stuff tho
+Penny Lane he's not saying that you won't need salt or pepper but that old bay has many spices mixed in it it's basically all you need
This kind of videos are some of a few worth watch in yt
you’re supposed to push the buttons with the pictures of food on em
Danker Beef That's what i said, SODIUM CHLORIDE
pepper is the best, you're insane
I like pepper
Same, pepper works with practically any meal thats why its so readily available. What's with the spice Nazism?
Incites comments and votes without detracting enough to change a like/dislike. Easy engagement bait.
I'm so happy I actually knew this already bc I spent my entire life binge reading Bill Bryson
Awesomely interesting clip! Although, you guys know that having salt and pepper on a table is extremely western. Even if this western tradition can be found in East Asia or in Africa, it does not detract from the fact that, traditionally, they are much less preferred over Chili powder, soy sauce or the like, in those areas. Thanks for the interesting clips and keep at it!
I say, "Anything, including pepper!"
Salt and pepper seem to be the only spices that taste pretty much the same when applied to food regardless of it being before or after it was cooked. Like you wouldnt season a steak with more garlic powder after you already finished cooking it but if you wanted to add some more salt/pepper it wouldn't taste much different compared to as if you'd added more salt/pepper before
My pepper shaker has cinnamon sugar in it. Has for years.
Salt and sugar makes sense for table seasonings. Also vinegar is pretty great.
I'm extremely dissapointed at the lack of spice girl references. Just saying.
Was salt ever really that scarce? I'm mean, it's literally everywhere, especially if you live near the sea.
Depends on how far back you want to consider. Moving goods from the coastlines to the inner regions of a continent requires a pretty heavy investment not only in roads but way stations and patrolling, and even then it could take weeks or months to move goods across such distances IF the destination had something worth brining back.
So coastal people had easy access, central ones did not. If one was lucky enough find a nice easily mined deposit then you were in good shape, but a lot of people had to buy it from other regions.
Salt may be very easy to find, but it still takes a lot of work to convert it into a usable form and then transport it to everywhere that it is needed. And there's a HUGE demand for it.
You can't easily get salt from the ocean it's much easier to mine huge blocks than boil away tons of seawater to get the same amount
You are spoiled by the convenience of modern life. The industrial revolution made the gathering of minerals (i.e. salt) infinitely easier. Back when everything had to be done by the strength of man and beast, it was an immensely laborious process. Not to mention how perilous it was to transport a commodity that could be lost if it were caught in a rainfall during transport (don't forget, transportation could take months prior to the advent of the locomotive). The same applies to aluminium - during Napolean's time it was actually more precious than gold.. but once electricity was discovered and the chemistry of aluminium understood, we were able to make our own aluminium - in a matter of months it went from the most precious metal on earth to the cheapest metal on earth. The conveniences of modern life cause many people to take for granted how difficult even the simplest things were long ago.
Aluminum's not the cheapest, but is the most abundant metal; it is relatively costly to refine.
0:20 thats sugar crystals ;)
I found the picture, they say its salt at least, don't believe me here's the link.
www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photo-salt-crystals-macro-photography-image36648325
So unfortunate, NaCl crystals look so much cooler. Also Cl- is not a poisonous gas, Cl_2 is and Na+ is not explosive, Na is.
Sure is. Salt crystals are cubic instead of the baguette cut shape that a sugar crystal has.
0:20 "It would tasted gross and weird." Yeah, because that not salt your adding to your salmon.
I was just thinking about this today and this video conveniently showed up on my home page…
Am I the only one who never used the salt or pepper? It's cooked the way its supposed to taste already you don't add more salt or pepper.
this makes me really sad because i absolutely love pepper and i use it more than salt
I love black pepper in Alfredo sauce. It’s the bomb
“ salt is the only rock we eat”
Babies didn’t get the memo
I am indian but we use black pepper occasionally but a huge variety of spices in food
So funny! I spurned pepper my entire life, and embraced a rich world of spice just as he suggests. Last year or so, I gave it a chance and now I'm doing the opposite - using *just* pepper (and salt) on everything, and loving it, even though I know full well how wonderful it might be to use saffron or celery seed or basil! xD
For me the big switch came when I started grinding my own pepper. I grew up with preground pepper & never understood why it was such a big deal. Then I tried freshly ground pepper & realized there's a LOT of amazing flavor in pepper! It's just that the best flavors get lost quickly if it sits around already ground up very long. Now preground pepper is banished in my house, but I own 4 pepper grinders!
I propose we change from salt and pepper to salt and...garlic salt.
Hmmmmm garlic salt for the win
no idea whats that, but any spice is better than pepper :D
+Normax Eight It's literally just salt with garlic powder mixed in, but it's one of the greatest seasonings ever crafted by man.
I've already done this, garlic salt is the best.
I vote salt and cumin. Cumin is way better.
In Hungary, it's usually salt and paprika.
Me: I really need to go to sleep now
*watches videos like this at 2 am*
I...uh... love the taste of black peppercorns, though. :-(
First, pepper is not universal. In some other countries you get other things on your table instead. Still, you seem to have missed the reason. In western cooking, salt and pepper are present in virtually every savory dish already. Adding more enables the diner to change the balance slightly without actually altering the flavor. If you put cumin (for example) on something, you've immediately pushed the flavor off in a completely different direction, unless it was fajitas or an Indian curry. Finally, many spices need to be cooked or you'll get serious indigestion. Black pepper is cooked already (sun dried) so it doesn't have that problem.