The Magic of Salt in Coffee

I just do a good pinch of sea salt into my 7 cup French press where I placed about 4 coffee scoops into the press. It softens the water and one can really taste the difference without it in terms of bitterness. Learned this from Alton Brown’s tv program Good Eats years ago.

nerd - just spit it out , i got bored and lost interest a minuet and thirty three seconds in . im out

A pinch is kosher salt, the certified King of salts!

In Turkish culture, when the groom-side goes to bride-side to ask for permission to marry, bride makes Turkish coffee for everyone. But adds salt to groom's coffee. It is not to reduce bitterness though, just to make it less palatable :D

The magic of Nescafe Original.
If you put a pinch of it in someone's salt, they will never use that salt again.

I did add salt yesterday, just a pinch and my coffee was really much smoother. My daughter reminded me to do that. So...Mr. Hoffmann is telling the truth. It is better, indeed.

It's funny I discovered this with nescafe over a decade ago when I ran out of sugar.

Dad once told me that in the navy they added salt to the grounds

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As a child I learned from my mother that a bad cup of coffee can always be made palatable with the tiniest pinch of salt, to “fix it”.

Swedes like to roast their coffee to cinders. You can't even find light roast outside of specialty shops I'd guess. Finns however do like their light roasts much more, some of the staple coffees in Finland have a 1 or max 2 "roast level".

Idea is to cut down salt in our diet, but adding salt in coffee hmm...No for me. Id rather just live with the slight bitterness

We just came across your channel as we are trying to increase our knowledge of everything coffee.
When I was a child, my dad used to add salt to the grounds in our Melitta drip coffee machine and I never knew why, until now. I should have asked him, but never did.
If I want to do the same thing in our Moccamaster drip machine, how much salt should we add to the basket of grounds?
Thanks!

Question if i hace a moca pot do i added on the coffe chamber or later once in the cup ? Anyone that knows thanks ❤

I always add a few grains of pink salt

Coffee tastes like dirty socks dipped in a mud puddle & wringed out in a cup.

There are many countries where salt is iodised by law, does any one know if the iodine changes the taste compared to no iodised salt? I'm asking because is literaly not posible for me to buy not iodised salt, not legally at least.

Salt in sugar is good for headaches.

I just woke up and, just like every other morning, I started to make my coffee as soon as I got up from bed. But today I noticed the salt grinder next to my coffee machine and wondered if coffee and salt would work together. I decided to give it a go and- boom! The bitterness is gone and my coffee taste wayyy more...smooth? Either way, I googled "coffee and salt" and ended up to this video. Currently enjoying my salt coffee and this video! (The coffee that I'm drinking is Juhla Mokka, a Finnish coffee that 99% of the population in Finland drinks).

I started putring salt in for electrolytes before hot summer runs, and i love it, its way better than drinking saltwater, even if im putting way too much salt in.

Just.. don't put too much. definitely not speaking from experience

As I have a bag of Nescafe lurking on a shelf, I shall try putting some salt in it. Experimentation only!
Goodness knows it needs something....
Then back to the Arabica bean's and my trusty old moka pot.

nescafe is a crime against humanity (i dont care about the stupidity of legalism or war "laws" NESCAFE IS JUST THAT BAD I WANT ALL OF IT OFF THE PLANAT)

African across the continent have been adding dairy spices and salt for centuries. 🙄

So I've been binging your videos for about a week now, and your videos always have some neat tidbit of history or cultural influences in coffee. In one of your other videos, you mentioned the desire to do a video on cowboy coffee. I'd love some videos like that! Maybe how to brew Ethiopian style coffee, or Turkish coffee, etc. I really enjoyed Turkish coffee when I was in that side of the world, and have always thought about getting the stuff to be able to make it. But some more educational videos on coffee and cultures and history would absolutely be fun!

What about eggshells?

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Where have you bean 😄 all my life? I like a bit of salt, it certainly saves a slightly lesser quality of coffee. I sometimes put a few drops of electrolytes in mine. p.s. Salt is infinitely better than cinnamon in coffee imho.

First heard about this years ago in a Tom Clancy novel, Red October maybe

wrong. it's not just about NaCl. when i first started salting coffee about 20 yrs ago, the difference between just plain table salt and natural salts like pink Himalayan, etc, was much more than obvious. there are numerous minerals and trace minerals in pink and Himalayan salts, et al. that these are absolutely contributors to taste in salted coffee is more than undeniable. but salted coffee is misleading. i'm closer to your obstinate puritanism than might be apparent. i use my fingers when adding very small amounts of salt and have acquired a taste for about 10 times what might be considered literally 3-4 grains. but i do agree that just 3-4 grains can change the taste of coffee for the better depending on the discrimination of the taster. for me, i'm a salty guy...in my diet i take more salt than normal (long distance runner needing electrolytes i'm guessing) but the point is, salt is not some weirdo thing. and it is not just, as you suggest, to cut bitterness or appeal to only salt tongue receptors. it absolutely alters taste in a range of directions, and mostly, if not always, for the better. that people don't have the sensitivity to learn how to apply it (at, as i've said, very very slight levels) is their loss. it's not just a corrector for your bad brews. but for those who wish to see it that way, each to his/her own.

I add grappa to my expresso, gives it a extra kick.

Well, that's probably why you never brew coffee with distilled water. The dissolved solids do help the flavor.

Coffee tastes horrible. Possibly this is why God Created sugar and cream.

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I'm Italian, and i don't get triggered when I see spaghetti broken in half.
But when I heard about (and tried) salt on coffee.
Now I do get triggered😂... I'm sorry but it's a huge mistake. I understand the principle, but putting straight in the cup cannot work. You'll always have a bavarage that has this crushing taste of seawater, and the sourness of coffee free to cover any good taste.
Sure, putting salt inside the coffee maker, can help dosage. But I still don't get it...when the taste of the coffee "gets better" it's already too late. The taste of salt is too strong.


Using salt to make something kind of sweeter, works in some buns and focaccias, with specific kind of salt(not too fine, not to grany).

Every April fools my father would replace the coffee sugar with salt… The marriage didn’t last…

What if you like the bitterness?

Yeah, salty...

Yummy...
Yike...

If ever I have to drink Nescafé I like to add 300-500 micrograms of LSD to the brew, really takes the edge off

Tastes like crap dont do it !!!!!

Bullet proof coffee ☕: add salt 🧂 and real butter 🧈 mmm 😋 keto friendly 👍 sllurrrp!

You can be assured that all the salt is dissolved. NaCl is highly soluble in water, especially hot water.

Baking soda it neutralizes the acid in coffee ☕❤

What is the ratio for the syrup salt

Wouldn't it make the most sense to put the solution in the filter basket in the first place, the grounds should be wetted first anyway. More important to me than the flavor, is the impact- Cream and sugar make coffee worthless to me (especially cream) as they do not allow the caffeine and perhaps other constituents, to enter my system in the same way. Thoughts about Ceylon cinnamon?

I use a pinch of sea salt in a 13 scoops 9 cup brew with fine grind. It’s almost alway perfect. I fresh grind every other day.

Ok, lets try a pinch of ground black pepper to our coffee😂

What does liquid ghee do for coffee instead of cream?

Most Scandinavian people have a salt+sugar mix.