Taste type
The Umami Diver
umami · ferment
You chase the deep savory bottom note — the flavor under the flavor.
Your hexagon
The shape your signature makes on the six flavor families — solid is you, dashed is the corpus average.
Who you are
Mushrooms, miso, aged cheese, a long-simmered stock: you're drawn to the ingredients that taste like time. You'd rather a dish be profound than pretty, and you can taste the difference between merely salty and truly savory. Hand you glutamate and you'll follow it all the way down.
What you love
Umami
The deep savory hum — the flavor under the flavor. It's what a long-simmered stock, an aged cheese, or a spoon of miso leaves behind: the sense that a dish is complete. You rarely name it, but you always miss it when it's gone.
Funk & Ferment
The wild, alive edge — blue cheese, kimchi, fish sauce, aged salami. Fermentation's beautiful pungency, where 'stinky' is really 'interesting.' Where some flinch, a curious palate leans in.
Salinity
The seasoning that wakes everything up. Salt doesn't taste 'salty' so much as it makes food taste like itself, only louder — from sea salt to soy to a briny caper. Get it right and you stop noticing it's there.
Earthy
The taste of the ground — mushrooms, beets, lentils, root vegetables, a dusting of cumin. Earthiness gives a dish weight and a sense of place, the flavor of things grown in soil.
How you like to cook
Beyond flavor — the disposition that shapes what lands on your table.
You love flavors melted into one — braises, stews, the long simmer.
You like the volume turned up — bold, loud, unmistakable flavor.
Dishes you'd love
A few we'd set in front of you — and the closest matches in the corpus.
French Onion Soup→
onions cooked down to a savory hum
Pho Bo→
a broth that tastes like it simmered all night
Risotto alla Milanese→
saffron, stock, and slow-stirred depth
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 Funk Devotee
You go where others flinch — the funk, the ferment, the beautifully pungent.
Share this type
A card worth posting — the hexagon, the notes, the dishes that fit.