Cooking & Salt
On Jul 10, 5:53 pm, aem > wrote:
> On Jul 10, 3:51 pm, javawizard > wrote:
>
> > The average American eats 20 to 30 times as much salt as is required
> > for good health. [snip useless link]
>
> Blah, blah, blah. You think we'll click on a link to find out about
> this revelation?
>
> Most home cooks using fresh ingredients, in my observation, use too
> little salt for best tasting results. And they don't use it at the
> right times. They fail to salt pasta water, they fail to salt the
> water for boiling potatoes, they fail to salt deep fried things
> _immediately_ upon draining, they fail to salt aromatics when they
> sweat them at the beginning of a recipe, they fail to salt the chicken
> before they roast it, etc., etc., etc. Then they sprinkle some salt
> over the dish at the end and wonder why it isn't as flavorful as it
> should be.
Amen.
> -aem
--Bryan
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