Salsa hotter with salt?

[RUGER]

I can't remember who showed me this one but it is strange.

I love me some chips & salsa and I eat very very little salt on a daily basis.

Dip your chip in the salsa and then add some salt to the salsa on the chip and eat it.
It actually makes the salsa taste hotter.
Dunno if it makes it hotter or the salt just burns your tongue or what but it really does work.
Adding salt to the salsa bowl itself doesn't have the same effect at all.

 

[Matador]

I will have to try that.

 

[brass magnet]

Again, it ain't just me, salt in the bowl just makes it saltier, on the chip makes it hotter, or enhances the heat.

 

[RUGER]

Again, it ain't just me, salt in the bowl just makes it saltier, on the chip makes it hotter, or enhances the heat.

I am yet to figure out why or how though.

 

[chris1976]

Salt enhances the heat as well as all flavors in food. I love salt


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[UpperTully]

Just salt on tortilla chips is good, the salsa is the added bonus!