Yes, you read that headline correctly. We all know that adding lots of sugar and milk to bad coffee makes it taste better, but if you're avoiding sugar or dairy what's a coffee lover with a poorly brewed cup to do?
Try adding salt.
According to VinePair, if you add a small pinch of salt to a cup of over-brewed or bitter coffee it will help cut the bitterness and produce a smoother drink.
Since I've been subjected to many terrible cups of coffee in my life — on airplanes or at the office on a rainy day — I was curious to see if this actually worked. So I recruited three of my colleagues to try this hack out on the notoriously bitter French Roast that our office coffeemaker brews.
While one colleague of mine was convinced the salt made the already bad coffee worse, another coworker and I agreed that whatever difference it did make was hardly noticeable. The coffee was still bad.
Then there was my boss. Not only did he think that the salt made the crappy coffee taste better, but also took the salty cup back to his desk and finished the whole thing he liked it so much.
"I'm a believer in this salt trick," he told me after we finished our taste test, even though he admitted that the bottom was, in fact, "a little salty."
Even though we weren't all convinced, it's worth stirring salt into your mug the next time you're faced with a terrible cup of joe. Just a pinch should do the trick.
Who knows? You just might like it.
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