to think, no, you cant taste if the salt and pepper is freshly ground....

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I really really cant. Other people tell me they can. I think they've just heard the grinder in the kitchen. What do you think? Do you use freshly ground salt and pepper? and can you tell?

Salt I would only be able to tell by the size of the granules, black pepper absolutely - the pre-ground stuff has no flavour, it is just dust.

Can absolutely tell.

Yes, I can tell!!

Yes I can tell both.

Ground black pepper and freshly ground black pepper are two completely different things taste wise.

Yes. White pepper is ok pre ground. It's more like heat than flavour.

Black and pink peppers taste better fresh.

With salt probably not, but definitely yes with pepper.

Definitely taste different

Definitely with pepper. I dont think i can with salt.

Freshly ground pepper tastes completely different. It smells completely different. It’s not even close.

Is it typical to boast about having a poor palate?

Pepper definitely can.

Salt, I can’t. But both Dp and Ds seem to be able to. Dp prefers table salt. DS prefers the freshly ground.

Black pepper, definitely.

Not with salt, but very definitely yes with pepper.

Salt no pepper yes, freshly ground is slightly fruity

wow, a lot of people have more sensitive taste buds than I do!

I had an Italian friend once who was appalled that his teenage son had tried to make pasta in water salted with table salt instead of crystals.... he swore the taste was totally different...

Fresh ground salt does taste different, but of course it depends what salt you buy!
I have pink Himalayan in my grinder and sea salt flakes I sprinkle whole for cooking, table salt is higher in sodium and I find a bit blah .

Salt because the crystals are bigger so you get that salty ‘hit’, pepper is also chunkier and smells lovely and spicy and peppery so there is an aroma benefit. It’s also much more peppery than the dust of ground pepper which is really just heat rather than flavour.

Having super taste can be a pain. I can’t drink tap water that’s been stood or stored for longer than an hour or so. It just tastes flat and stale. Dh can’t tell the difference.

where we live the tap water is lovely.

Is op boasting?

Bit of a shitty reply

Equally, the OP is being rather dismissive of those who can distinguish, saying they’ve just ‘heard the grinder in the kitchen’. I mean, DH is utterly tone deaf, but doesn’t claim I’m inventing it when I can tell when someone’s singing flat.

Both definitely different. Table salt - the cheap stuff - tastes much harsher. If you make home made bread there’s a big difference in the taste. I don’t buy table salt or ready ground pepper at all any more.

You don’t think it’s arrogant to assume every single other person is a liar?

Yes, it seemed like she was boasting. Some weird reverse snobbery about not something she clearly deems “poncey”.

I can tell with pepper but not with salt.
Surely, as a mineral rather than a bit of vegetable life, salt is pretty inert? It is what it is. Whereas pepper has loads of different components that change and deteriorate as they break down. Grinding pepper initially releases loads of flavour but then just speeds up the deterioration. Grinding salt just makes its bits smaller

Absolutely to both! If you can't taste them, there's something wrong with your taste buds