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Do you like mixing opposite taste for food, like salty + sweet, or meat + fish in one dish?

Do you like mixing opposite taste for food, like salty + sweet, or meat + fish in one dish?

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I like it very much
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Sure there are. There are complementary flavors and contrasting flavors. This applies to everything from recipes to wine/beverage pairings.

Drinking a peppery wine with spicy food would be a complementary pairing but choosing a sweet wine would be contrasting, and arguably just better as it creates a balance between the two rather than over-amplifying a single aspect of the meal

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I don't think "contrasting" is the same as "opposite" though. There are many flavors you'd consider contrasting to each of those; which would be opposite to the other?

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I agree that maybe ‘opposite’ isn’t the best word, but I feel like he was asking about contrasting flavors without thinking of that particular word. But really, sweet is pretty opposite of spicy. Can you name a flavor profile that’s contrasting to spicy that isn’t sweet? Like bitter and spicy are different profiles and probably don’t go together at all, so I don’t think it even makes sense to describe them as contrasting, just a bad pairing

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Sweet and spicy are used together all the time, especially now that they put sugar in everything. "Opposite" sounds like they cancel each other out, and they don't.