What is the difference between hot and cold? How pungent is perceived vs. pungent? How can’t it be piquant vs spicy?
When I referring to the taste of products which contain chili peppers (like chips, kebabs or other dishes etc.) or contains other spices which cause this painful taste in the tongue, as a non native English speaker I have a big confusion regarding the term that I have to describe them.
I found a lot of choices and I’m afraid that maybe in practical English some of them more and less common.
What is the common leader term that i should go with, and that always relevant to this taste?
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spicy n.b. I would prefer other word than “hot”, because it can cause confusion with the term hot which refers to the temperature.
The most common word choice is “hot” but the most common way is not always the best way. I have had the following conversation with many of the native English speakers.
Is it a Friend that is hot?
Do you mean warm or spicy?
Spicy is probably second-most common but is also used for foods heavily seasoned with many spices (except chili). I don’t like spicy. And more accurate words, like “pungent” and “piquant” are expected, but they are somewhat marked except in technical
discussions.
Can hot foods have much capsaicin? What if this is a vegetable?
Which food is spicy /sweet? ginger garam masala, cumin, cinnamon, salt & pepper. Can broccoli have capsaicin as well? Are men like hot and spicy? Please explain why?
Have a strong taste and smell. When eaten raw, they have a sharp or sharp taste. The swollen flesh can come from pickling.
Do piquant foods have a tartness or acidity?
What is this book (p.498 pages)? 332) try to discuss about the parts of the question. I’ll copy here just a small phrase. All the rest is there and in my opinion the rest is there too.
I’ve always wondered about the words hot and spicy with reference to the tastes of peppers and other spices. Why do chili peppers have peppery taste? Are the chemicals that cause sensations the same?
No, you know those sensory effects are caused by several different chemical compounds. Are they all linked to one another? If there were some individual descriptive words for these emotions, then what would really happen? Why don’t the words hot, peppery, spicy, zingy, spicy, pungent, piquant, biting, zingy, sharp and zingy all seem to be in similar order? How could there be a different brand of black pepper, chili peppers, ginger, mustard, horseradish and wasabi?
What is the best thing to learn about a person/thing?
I use ” spicy” to make it as well as yummy. Of course, some people use ” too spicy ” or ” too hot “. It is not uncommon to use this word. I agree that “hot” can be confused with temperature, so my go to word is “spicy”.
Foods that are fast may sometimes be labeled as “hot and spicy” (often in a restaurant description).
To describe peppers, chili is not only used as a stew, but for many other foods. In America, I usually only see it occasionally on salsa labels.
“Pungent” means a sharp smell.
Piquant is more formal and something that could be found in a food critic’s vocabulary. I want
to be specific between both: “Piquant”- “Piquant” or I just call it “Piquant”.
