Taste type
The Ember Chaser
heat · smoke
You cook toward the fire — heat, char, and smoke are the point, not the risk.
Your hexagon
The shape your signature makes on the six flavor families — solid is you, dashed is the corpus average.
Who you are
You reach for the blistered chile, the edge that caught the flame, the bite that makes you exhale. Where others taste danger, you taste depth — smoke and heat aren't a dare, they're where the flavor lives. Turn the burner up; you'll meet the food there.
What you love
Heat
The chile's fire — fresh, dried, fermented, or flaked. Capsaicin's slow burn that makes you exhale and reach for the next bite. Heat isn't a flavor so much as a pace: it decides how fast you eat.
Smoke
Fire's fingerprint — charred edges, smoked paprika, bacon, a grill's kiss. Smoke says 'this met flame': primal, unmistakable, and impossible to fake with anything else.
Warm Spice
The spice-drawer warmth — cumin, cinnamon, cardamom, coriander, clove. Toasted whole spices that fill a house and layer a dish with fragrance you can't quite name but always recognize.
Allium
The savory foundation nearly every cuisine builds on — garlic, onion, shallot, leek, chive. Raw, it bites; slow-cooked, it turns sweet and deep. The first thing to hit the pan.
How you like to cook
Beyond flavor — the disposition that shapes what lands on your table.
You like the volume turned up — bold, loud, unmistakable flavor.
You reach for the unfamiliar — the dish you can't quite picture yet.
You're drawn to browning, curing, and char — flavor made by fire and time.
Dishes you'd love
A few we'd set in front of you — and the closest matches in the corpus.
Barbecue Ribs→
smoke, char, and a slow lick of heat
Tacos al Pastor→
achiote-and-chile pork off the spit
Barbacoa de Res→
chile-braised until the edges catch
More from the corpus, ranked to your palate
Where you'd wander next
The type that shares your territory but opens one new door. A good place to stretch.
The Spice Router
You follow the spice road — cumin, cardamom, warm aromatics layered deep.
Share this type
A card worth posting — the hexagon, the notes, the dishes that fit.