/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Listen Op.
Cheese is savory. Its a fatty savory or a pungent stinky savory but neither of these are umami savory.

Umami savory is that taste that's distinct in a Caesar salad, in a stir fry that uses oyster sauce or fish sauce, or that MSG branded taste you may be familiar with as an American or Euro.

Its a distinct flavor and I don't understand your autism over other people using precise language to describe umami instead of the more generic savory.

TLDR: all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. We have different words for a reason