What’s on the Building Flavour poster
A 5-row table: Taste · From · Adds.
The five basic tastes, and what each contributes.
- Salt — Salt, soy, anchovy, cheese — Amplifies everything else
- Sweet — Sugar, honey, carrot, onion — Balances acid and bitterness
- Sour — Lemon, vinegar, tamarind — Lifts and brightens
- Bitter — Coffee, greens, char — Depth, complexity
- Umami — Tomato, mushroom, soy, parmesan — Savoury depth, body
Layering umami sources multiplies the effect. Tomato plus parmesan plus anchovy is more savoury than any of them alone.
Questions about the Building Flavour poster
- What’s on the Building Flavour poster?
- A 5-row table: Taste · From · Adds. The five basic tastes, and what each contributes. Salt — Salt, soy, anchovy, cheese — Amplifies everything else; Sweet — Sugar, honey, carrot, onion — Balances acid and bitterness; Sour — Lemon, vinegar, tamarind — Lifts and brightens; Bitter — Coffee, greens, char — Depth, complexity; Umami — Tomato, mushroom, soy, parmesan — Savoury depth, body. Layering umami sources multiplies the effect. Tomato plus parmesan plus anchovy is more savoury than any of them alone.
- Who is the Building Flavour poster for?
- Building Flavour belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ingredients can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Building Flavour poster?
- If it tastes flat, it usually needs salt or acid. Try acid first — it is the more commonly missing one. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Building Flavour belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Building Flavour?
- Storing Bread, Cheese and Chillies sit alongside Building Flavour in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Storing BreadCheeseChillies
- Is the Building Flavour poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Building Flavour downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Building Flavour poster print at?
- Building Flavour is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Building Flavour loses nothing.Printing guide
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