(I originally posted this to our camp mailing list, but I figured that the wider population of the internet may also be interested)<\/p>\n
A couple of things prompted me thinking about this, and I shared my thoughts with Leah tonight and she’s been thinking the same kind of things.<\/p>\n
We’ve observed that some food on playa is absolutely THE BEST THING EVER to enter our mouth holes while some things are a bit more meh than they should be. Basically,\u00c2\u00a0 we’re theorising that human taste buds change at Burning Man when compared to the default world.<\/p>\n
A while ago we saw Heston Blumenthal trying to fix airline food, where he conducted an experiment where at sea level and then in a compartment that was pressurized to the altitude of a plane he had different concentrations of sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami to taste.<\/p>\n
So, let’s look at the differences in altitude and humidity between home,
\nplaya and an airplane:<\/p>\n
Home:<\/strong> within a few hundred ft of sealevel. Home:<\/strong> 40-80% (inside\/outside my house right now) The result of the altitude and humidity for airplanes was:<\/p>\n This would explain why I always add salt to airplane food, why at one This also explains why there may be a preference for less hoppy beers on Also, it’s one of the few places I can stomach US sodas (HFCS being One suggestion (and Heston tried this on flights) is nasal I’d be pretty interested to conduct some experiments both in normal I’m thinking:<\/p>\n Although it may require some experimentation to find what the minimum Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (I originally posted this to our camp mailing list, but I figured that the wider population of the internet may also be interested) A couple of things prompted me thinking about this, and I shared my thoughts with Leah tonight … Continue reading
\nBlack Rock Desert:<\/strong> 3,907ft (from wikipedia)
\nAirplane cabin:<\/strong> 6,000ft (Boeing 787) to 6,900ft (Boeing 767) (or much closer to sea level if you’ve got a private jet)<\/p>\nHumidity<\/h2>\n
\nAirplane:<\/strong> 12-15%
\nBurning Man:<\/strong> 24% (average for August), low teens during the day (10-15% midday to midnight)<\/p>\n\n
\n(i.e. need more sweetness to taste it)<\/li>\n
\n(i.e. more sensitive to sour)<\/li>\n
\n(i.e. more sensitive to bitter)<\/li>\n
\n(i.e. you need more salt)<\/li>\n
\npoint corn chips with vegemite was the best thing ever on playa and why
\nthere’s this odd bacon obsession amongst so many.<\/p>\n
\nplaya (or, if you’re me, a desire to try some insanely hopped ones to
\nsee if I can notice an intensity increase).<\/p>\n
\ninstant diabetes, but ginger ale on playa\/in a plane is kinda nice).<\/p>\n
\ndouching… and I’m actually pretty keen to clean out the nose before
\neating on playa because as we all know, playa up your nose is a fact of
\nlife.<\/p>\n
\nconditions and on playa with various concentrations of sweet, sour,
\nbitter, salty and umami and note down at what concentrations the flavor
\nis noticed.<\/p>\n\n
\nconcentrations are. Once we’ve worked these out, should be able to do
\ntasting and take notes when not on playa and then recreate it all on
\nplaya and compare results.<\/p>\n