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Many years ago a friend was looking at a new recipe to cook, and she asked me, "Can you taste a recipe?" My first thought was "Huh? What?" My second thought wa
by Stratoscope 2y ago
Many years ago a friend was looking at a new recipe to cook, and she asked me, "Can you taste a recipe?"
My first thought was "Huh? What?" My second thought was "Yes, I can taste a recipe." So I read it, imagined cooking it, and tasted it in my mind.
It tasted good, and of course I had a couple of minor suggestions. Maybe one was more garlic, but I always want more garlic.
She agreed with my ideas and had a couple of improvements of her own. When she made the dish, it was very very good, and tasted even better in real life than the original recipe tasted in our minds.
- noisy_boy 2y agoIf you incrementally cook it in your mind and "smell"/"taste" it at various stages, you should be able to do it in your mind. Right now, I can "taste" one of the dishes that was made every Saturday at our home when I was a child; I had it so many times, I don't actually need to eat it anymore.
- smeej 2y agoI wonder if there's an equivalent for "aphantasia" for the other senses. If there is, I'm pretty sure I have it for taste. I can imagine whole detailed worlds and hold them in my imagination, but nothing tastes like anything, and I definitely can't taste recipes. To be fair, it's possible it's underdeveloped because I don't taste things terribly well in reality either, but now I'm wondering about how all the senses translate to imagination!