flavorless

Apart from mistaking energy for exhilaration, the movie is a mostly flavorless puree of dark humor, comic-book sentimentality and ultra-bloody combat.

Flavorless binders like potato starch, rice flour and konjac flour are employed to help hold things together.

“Once you’ve bit down on a fresh muscadine, juice and pulp bursting onto your tongue, table grapes will seem flavorless,” says Betsy Harris, a forager living in northern Florida.

Brining is great for lean meats that are inherently flavorless when cooked on their own, like chicken breasts, pork chops, seafood and Thanksgiving turkey.

“White people food” is bland, unseasoned, unappetizing and “so flavorless it could make you cry,” wrote Bon Appétit’s Jenny G. Zhang.