Recipes

Just a list of recipes I make, will try to make, have made at one point, or will never make...

5 Human Taste Receptors

1. Sweet
2. Sour
3. Salty
4. Bitter
5. Umami (glutamate unessential amino acid)

Onion/Garlic create a sulfur tastes similar to meat

Chemesthesis (chemical irritation sense)

Hot spices actually activate the heat/pain receptors by binding to the TRPV1 receptors.

• Chili heat (capsaicin)
  • green -> red just means riper, more capsaicin, but more sweet
  • very small w/ ginger
• Methanol, wiki/Menthol
  • activates TRPM8 receptors
  • Mint
    • corn mint
    • peppermint
• Carbonation bite (CO₂)
  • stimulates TRPA1 and pain-related nerve
• mustard/wasabi heat (TRPA1 receptors (irritation/“sharp pain” pathway)
• tingling (Szechuan pepper)
  • contians hydroxy-alpha-sanshool
  • causes nerve “firing noise” / signal confusion

Smell

garlic, herbs, smoke, spices, fruit aroma

• Cumin/Jeera
  • earthy/nutty
• Cardamon
  • sweet-floral-cooling
• Coriander
  • citrus/nutty

Apps/Websites

• BeChef
  • Never used it
  • But my friend Brandon developed it summer of 2025
  • It generates a recipe from a youtube video
• Paprika
  • Recipe manager app
  • Recc from Bobby & Sarah Eggs
  • $30 desktop mac, $5 ios