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The BBC is a British website - most of its readers will be used to traditional British mustards, which are a lot hotter - typical serving implement is a cocaine

The BBC is a British website - most of its readers will be used to traditional British mustards, which are a lot hotter - typical serving implement is a cocaine spoon (not joking.) Wasabi tastes like horseradish (both are roots), not mustard (a seed.)

glandium 4y ago
Fun fact: 90% of things labelled wasabi are actually horseradish.
stavros 4y ago
They taste different, but both have that acidic (not spicy, the kind that opens the nasal passages) flavor that I personally hate.
- somat 4y ago
  I like horseradish flavor quite a bit more than spicy(pepper) flavor, I think because it is spicy but does not linger like the oil based pepper spices. A stupid story that probably explains more about me than I care to admit. I was making an egg sandwich one day and accidentally grabbed the horseradish sauce instead of mayonnaise, took a bit bite, and thought "hmm... that's funny, my mayonnaise must have gone off." this is where any sane person would stop and verify, but me, being me, went "better make sure" and took another bite. At which point I hunted down the container I used found out I had used horseradish sauce, decided it was actually pretty good and have been using it on my egg sandwiches ever sense.
  - stavros 4y ago
    Doesn't it taste like window cleaner? I find it even smells like that. I like spicy food but I hate horseradish.
    - somat 4y ago
      Honestly there is no accounting for taste. I dislike vinegar and salt chips with a passion, I think it is a vile chemically taste, however I know many people who not only eat them without complaining but appear to prefer the taste and actually spend money to buy the infernal things on purpose. The only lesson I can gain from this is that the world is a large place and there are many types of people in it.
      - stavros 4y ago
        I agree, I don't care if you like the window cleaner scent, but we can probably agree that it does smell/taste like window cleaner.
magicalhippo 4y ago
> Wasabi tastes like horseradish (both are roots), not mustard (a seed.) They're from the same family though, and share the compound[1] that makes them hot. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allyl_isothiocyanate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allyl_isothiocyanate
denton-scratch 4y ago
> typical serving implement is a cocaine spoon (not joking.) Haha! It's true - a coke spoon looks just like a mustard spoon, but a bit smaller. Typically they're both silver (or plate). Fresh horseradish sauce is something that most people haven't encountered; most horseradish sauce comes in jars from supermarkets, and is tame stuff. If you make your own from fresh horseradish, have a glass of cold water to hand. It's in a different part of the Scoville Scale.

glandium 4y ago

Fun fact: 90% of things labelled wasabi are actually horseradish.

stavros 4y ago

They taste different, but both have that acidic (not spicy, the kind that opens the nasal passages) flavor that I personally hate.

somat 4y ago
I like horseradish flavor quite a bit more than spicy(pepper) flavor, I think because it is spicy but does not linger like the oil based pepper spices. A stupid story that probably explains more about me than I care to admit. I was making an egg sandwich one day and accidentally grabbed the horseradish sauce instead of mayonnaise, took a bit bite, and thought "hmm... that's funny, my mayonnaise must have gone off." this is where any sane person would stop and verify, but me, being me, went "better make sure" and took another bite. At which point I hunted down the container I used found out I had used horseradish sauce, decided it was actually pretty good and have been using it on my egg sandwiches ever sense.
- stavros 4y ago
  Doesn't it taste like window cleaner? I find it even smells like that. I like spicy food but I hate horseradish.
  - somat 4y ago
    Honestly there is no accounting for taste. I dislike vinegar and salt chips with a passion, I think it is a vile chemically taste, however I know many people who not only eat them without complaining but appear to prefer the taste and actually spend money to buy the infernal things on purpose. The only lesson I can gain from this is that the world is a large place and there are many types of people in it.
    - stavros 4y ago
      I agree, I don't care if you like the window cleaner scent, but we can probably agree that it does smell/taste like window cleaner.

magicalhippo 4y ago

> Wasabi tastes like horseradish (both are roots), not mustard (a seed.) They're from the same family though, and share the compound[1] that makes them hot. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allyl_isothiocyanate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allyl_isothiocyanate

denton-scratch 4y ago

> typical serving implement is a cocaine spoon (not joking.) Haha! It's true - a coke spoon looks just like a mustard spoon, but a bit smaller. Typically they're both silver (or plate). Fresh horseradish sauce is something that most people haven't encountered; most horseradish sauce comes in jars from supermarkets, and is tame stuff. If you make your own from fresh horseradish, have a glass of cold water to hand. It's in a different part of the Scoville Scale.