Yo /ck/, how do I develop my sense of taste?
Context is I'm starting to make coffee at home now, and I'm realizing I don't have a well-developed palette. I know the coffee I'm making doesn't taste great, but I don't know how to describe the feelings in my mouth, if that makes sense.

How do I learn to tell the difference between bitterness, sourness, and acidity?
Should I go find foods that are known for being extreme in one direction and taste those?
I feel retarded please help

>>21476080 (OP)
>I don't have a well-developed palette

Just buy a new one.
You should find them in every arts and craft store.

>>21476080 (OP)
>How do I learn to tell the difference between bitterness, sourness, and acidity
Try overextracting as much as possible and underextracting as much as possible. That will give you bitter and sour. Acidity is just pleasant sourness. Also try checking out >>21467211

>>21476080 (OP)
>how do I develop my sense of taste?
you don't it is at its peak as a child and diminishes over time. that diagram is not accurate taste is not partitioned on your tongue, with the exception that bitter is on the tip of your tongue (mostly).

the tongue is a small portion of your sense of taste, the majority is smell. if you can't smell lots of things you are missing out on the full experience.

the bad things that you can taste things others cannot, which is why people eat food that is nasty (because they can't taste or smell), and also you get more enjoyment from foods and smells other don't even know about.

>>21476080 (OP)
Stopping smoking, avoided 99% of all sugars, and only drank water or black coffee to reset my palette. Took about 3 months of this to "discover" new flavors/scents I've been eating for years.
>I don't know how to describe the feelings in my mouth, if that makes sense
Consider learning different ways to describe what you wish to describe. I learned most of my stuff from watching Good Eats and Kitchen Nightmares.
>How do I learn to tell the difference between bitterness, sourness, and acidity?
Practice, repetition, and practice. Explore different foods. Smell before you taste. Then smell after you taste. Act like a perplexed ape.

Lastly, those coffee heads are like wine fags. 99.999% of them cannot tell what they're drinking. It's a social status thing. They get off on paying $49.99/kg of [Insert laundry list of snakeoil certifications] coffee bean.
I'm a coffee purist. Does it have a lot of caffeine? Yes? Ok it's good coffee.

To each their own. Good luck, anon.

>>21476432
>Lastly, those coffee heads are like wine fags. 99.999% of them cannot tell what they're drinking.
I like "Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure" for a lot of reasons, but a highlight are the stark demonstrations that being a "famous world-renowned wine taster" is 90% based on one's ability to bullshit (after learning a little basic vocabulary). And that's not an insult either, Oz Clarke is a hoot, at least when paired with James May (pun intended).

>>21476432
Drink this stuff for long enough and pretty much any coffee tastes good IYKYK