![]() A Grapefruit Spoon Will Help You Effortlessly De-Seed Your Squash. May be worth giving it a fair shake, anyway. Alton Brown revealed on YouTube that it only takes a simple tool to make seeding. She suggests that, although salting grapefruit has fallen out of favor in the sugar-obsessed U.S., loading the foods we eat with high-cal sweeteners is falling out of favor, and grapefruit and salt may be “ripe for a reunion.” Roughly the same size as a standard teaspoon, a grapefruit spoon features a more tapered head lined with sharp, serrated teeth. Salting fruit is common in many parts of the world, Berenstein writes. A grapefruit spoon is a special utensil intended to help carve and scoop grapefruit flesh from the rind with ease and precision. ![]() And of course smell is a big part of taste. On a cognitive level, Berenstein says, “bitterness and sweetness inhibit each other.” Consequently, “the more bitter something tastes, the less sweet we perceive it to be, and vice versa.” What’s more, salt may chemically alter a “watery food” such as grapefruit, helping to render airborne “volatile molecules” and thus making them easier to breathe in as the fruit’s fragrance. She explains as follows:īecause the ions in salt block some of the taste receptors in our tongue, salt may diminish our ability to detect bitterness, making food taste sweeter. While the arranged marriage may have had much to do with circumstance (sugar rationing during wartime and all that), it also has some good science behind it, Berenstein notes. In fact, in a post on NPR’s The Salt blog (which is not, of course, a blog only about salt), science historian Nadia Berenstein dubs grapefruit and salt an “unlikely power couple,” noting that during much of the 20th century marketers linked the two, claiming the latter was capable of making the former taste sweeter. But it seems generations of Americans were more inclined to pair their grapefruit with another easy-to-sprinkle crystal: salt. In my quest to start my days with a healthier twist, this bruleed grapefruit lets me think healthy while still cracking through a shell of sugar-perfection! You could make this a breakfast grapefruit or a dessert.Many of us consider grapefruit’s natural granular mate to be sugar. I take most anything that Alton Brown says as the trusted and tested kitchen truth, so when I found his easy steps for making a grapefruit brulee I thought I’d share it here with you. Sprinkle with sugar and let the torch do its work. ![]()
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