中村和宫下芳名教授如今称这一理念为"增强味觉",他们已经改善了技术,使电荷能通过餐叉和筷子传导入食物中去."叉子的金属部件是一个电极,手柄则是另一个电极,"中村解释道："当你叉起一块食物放入嘴中时,电路接通,当你的叉子离开嘴巴时,电路断开.事实上它的工作原理就像开关一样."
Munchies host Simon Klose, who recently visited Nakamura to try out the fork himself, called this form of 'food hacking' one of the most profound eating experiences he's ever had. "When I first heard of electric food it sounded scary," he said, in a 15-minute documentary clip about the special technology. He later proceeded to use a charged fork to eat pieces of fried chicken, and found that the saltiness considerably increased as the electricity was dialed up.
Munchies网站主办人西蒙·克洛斯最近拜访了中村,亲自试用这款餐叉后,他表示这种"食品黑客"的形式是他最难忘的美食体验之一."当我第一次听说通电食物时觉得特别可怕,"在15分钟的纪录片剪辑里他这样评价这一特殊技术.之后,他开始用通电餐叉吃炸鸡块,他发现当电流接通时,食物明显变咸.
"It's so salty!" he says, after taking a bite. "This is cool. It's almost sparking. It has a spicy fizziness. Like sparkling, carbonated chicken."
'太咸啦'他咬了一口之后说, '好酷,好像马上就要冒火花了,还有一点辣,像碳化鸡.'
Nakamura has been eating 'electric' food for the past three to four years, in an attempt to understand it better. "For me, food hacking is about augmenting or diminishing real food," she said. "It may seem like we're cooking but we're actually working on the human senses. We are inventing devices to add electricity to the tongue. We're trying to create virtual taste."
过去的三至四年里,中村一直都在吃"通电食物",试着更好地认识它."对我来说,'食物黑客'就是在强化或是削弱真正的食物,"她说："表面上我们是在烹饪,实际上是在人类感官上做文章.我们在发明将电流输入舌头的设备,我们正试着创造出虚拟味道."
