On 13/03/2010 4:02 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
> On 3/12/2010 8:57 AM, Krypsis wrote:
>> On 12/03/2010 7:55 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
>>> On 3/11/2010 3:22 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> On Mar 11, 12:53 pm, > wrote:
>>>>> http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/...d-new-york-sal...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a
>>>>> bill
>>>>> introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the
>>>>> use
>>>>> of salt in restaurant cooking.
>>>>>
>>>>> "No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in
>>>>> any
>>>>> form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of
>>>>> such
>>>>> restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of
>>>>> such
>>>>> restaurant or off of such premises," the bill, A. 10129, states in
>>>>> part.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/...d-new-york-sal...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There's more at the article, but I didn't want to go to jail for
>>>>> arranging
>>>>> your monitor's pixels in a way that would cause Fox News to lose
>>>>> millions
>>>>> and millions of dollars in revenue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway... what do you think? I think even most chain restaurant food
>>>>> tastes pretty good, like at Chili's, Applebee's, Olive Garden, and I
>>>>> don't
>>>>> give a shit if you laugh at me for eating in those restaurants. It
>>>>> tastes
>>>>> good, and that's all I care about. I'd hate to go into a place like
>>>>> Chili's for their queso dip only to find they had to use cheese that
>>>>> had
>>>>> no salt it. What would unsalted cheese taste like?
>>>>>
>>>>> If the restaurant cannot use salt in any form, that means they can't
>>>>> use
>>>>> food they buy from places like Sysco, which already has salt included.
>>>>> What about McDonald's? Their ketchup packets have salt in them. Are
>>>>> all
>>>>> the McDonald's in New York City going to have to buy unsalted ketchup?
>>>>> Unsalted hamburger buns?
>>>>>
>>>>> The new bill sounds ridiculous to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Damaeus
>>>>
>>>> Before voting on the bill, the legislature should eat a meal prepared
>>>> with
>>>> no salt, and be aware that's what they're eating.
>>>
>>> Amen. The thing these morons fail to grasp is that cooking is an
>>> interplay of chemical processes--if salt is eliminated then quite a lot
>>> of processes that depend on it have to be eliminated as well.
>>>
>>> But politicians are politicians and they'll likely pass it and then
>>> wonder why they can't get a decent meal in town anymore.
>>
>> At least until their palate adapts and then food will taste like it
>> should! That will be in four or five weeks...
>
> Yeah, vegetables with all the nutrients leached out,

I steam vegetables without salt. I don't leach all the nutrients out by
overcooking.

> bread that rose too high,

There are alternatives to salt such as potassium that aid in those
processes.

> cheese that didn't ripen properly,

That's a hard one but since I am allergic to cheese I don't use it anyway.

> vegetables that are either hard

I prefer my vegetables slightly crisp, not limp.

> or or have all the color washed out . . .

See above.
>
> Salt does more in cooking than add flavor--it has significant effects on
> the chemical processes that go on in the food.
>
>
Perhaps you would like to give us a detailed explanation of said
chemical processes. It's easy enough to make the claims but I'd like to
see you justify them. There is sufficient evidence that excesses of salt
does long term harm.

Krypsis