Degustation Mastery

Degustation Mastery
Koizumi (Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san) is a ramen gourmet who have tasted all kinds of ramen with encyclopedic knowledge behind their taste, preparation and ingredients.
Power/Ability to:	Be a master of degustation.

"How can I describe it? Good food is like music you can taste, color you can smell. There is excellence all around you. You need only to be aware to stop and savor it."

― Auguste Gusteau (Ratatouille)

"My grandmother said 'Fancy food does not taste good. No matter what truth you try to hide, you cannot hide it.'"

― Soji Tendo/Kamen Rider Kabuto (Kamen Rider Kabuto)

"Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating"

― Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French gourmet and gastronome

The ability to be a master of degustation, either innately or through training. Sub-power of Culinary Mastery.

Also Called

• Degustation Aptitude/Expertise/Intuition/Proficiency/Skills
• Tasting Aptitude/Expertise/Intuition/Mastery/Proficiency/Skills

Capabilities

The user, either innately or through training, is a master of degustation, the act of which people sample, compare, and evaluate different types of food.

Applications

• Peak Human/Enhanced Smell - Depends on skill of the user.
• Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural Taste - Depends on skill of the user.

Associations

• Culinary Mastery

Limitations

• Can not be learned if user suffers from tasting deficiency.
• May require a degree of training or exposure.
• May take time to achieve mastery.

Known Users

• Synesthete Alphas (Alphas)
• Yuujiro Hanma (Baki the Grappler)
• Gourmet Research Society (Blue Archive)
  • Akashi Junko
  • Kurodate Haruna
  • Shishidou Izumi
  • Wanonuchi Akari
• Rick (Bob's Burgers) - Wine Only
• Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
• Jeffrey Master (Phoenix Wright)
• Lechonk/Oinkologne (Pokémon)
• Michelangelo (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Erina Nakiri (Shokugeki no Soma)
• Mana Nakiri (Shokugeki no Soma)
• Homer Simpson (Simpsons)
• Komatsu (Toriko)

Gallery

As a synesthete Alpha, Rachel Pirzad (Alphas) is a master of degustation, able to identify food ingredients by taste.

Akashi Junko (Blue Archive)

Kurodate Haruna (Blue Archive)

Shishidou Izumi (Blue Archive)

Wanibuchi Akari (Blue Archive)

Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Marvel Comics) can not only tell how many grains of salt are on a pretzel by taste, but determine every ingredient of a food or drink he samples as long as at least 20 milligrams of that substance is present.

Michelangelo (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) has a "super tongue", allowing him to identify specific ingredients like flour in pizza products.

Komatsu (Toriko) has an incredible sense of taste, able to discover multiple ingredients of Setsuno's homemade Century Soup

Rick (Bob's Burgers) is a professional wine taster.

Due to her "God's Tongue", Erina Nakiri (Shokugeki no Soma) is a skilled food taster despite her young age.

Being a honorary advisor of the cooking guild and A Rank gourmet researcher, Hockham (Tensei Shitara Ken Deshita) is a top rank food critic

able to degust the taste of meals from its flavour, ingredients to the emotions the cook have in preparing them

able to define and differenate the Teacher's home cooking from professional cooking despite maxing out his cooking skill.