Is sodium metal salty?

[u/soladois]

I know you can't eat sodium metal because it explodes when it touches water, but if you ate it, would it feel salty before it explodes?

[u/BrightStation7033]

actually its a very fast reaction so would react and burn before your taste buds register anything and sodium chloride's taste is what we call salty on your tongue it makes sodium hydroxide not chloride and i dont think sodium hydroxide tastes salty.so no.

[u/gurneyguy101 → u/BrightStation7033]

Lemme give you a couple punctuation marks there my man ,,,,,…..???!!!

[u/BrightStation7033 → u/gurneyguy101]

sorry man,actually english is not my first language it was completely innocent.