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Tasting Alkali Metal Chloride Salts from Lithium to Cesium

Explosions&Fire · Demo · 12 min · 2018 · YouTube title: What salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and more
Why it's here

It gets linked in threads about salt and taste as a quirky, memorable curiosity.

What it covers

The Explosions&Fire channel taste-tests the chloride salts of the alkali metals (lithium through cesium), plus some alkaline earth metals and ammonium. The presenter describes the flavors, and the results are more pleasant than expected.