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I feel incredibly targeted by this. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For context, my wife is always criticizing how I don't add enough salt to the dishes I cook. I also have no tats. She does.

But at least you can always add more salt lol

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

You need to add salt as you cook. Yes, you can add it afterwards, but you don't get the same flavor layering, food texture, salt penetration, and for some foods, the necessary chemical reactions in your dishes. In some sense, I feel confident that your wife is right based purely on the fact that you think you can just add salt after it's cooked and get the same thing.

Source: have tattoos and cook food. 😁

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

I'm a white dude with no tattoos, but I have this argument all the time with my family. "You can add hot sauce and salt afterward for yourself!" That's not how this works Susan. That's not how any of this works. All of cooking is chemistry and physics! And get over it! If I'm cooking I'm using salt and guajillio peppers!

Source: Gay and cook food.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago

"Tattoos. Coke. And chronic stress. These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect line cooks. But Head Chef Marco accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction: Chemical Gay."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Real and gay

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

The frog legs are making my monocle gay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think gay is tattoo equivalent for cooking...

[+] [email protected] -8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Eating too much salt is not healthy and throwing spicy peppers when the one that are going to eat don't handle spicy is just being an asshole tbh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's normal when I'm making fucking chili Susan! And there's a difference between too much salt and adding the appropriate amount of salt.

And research has shown that the most effective way to not have problems with too much sodium in the blood/high blood pressure is to drink more fucking water.

And the person that complains to me about the salt levels in my food? A) didn't pay for the fucking food and B) drinks 12 fucking diet Dr peppers a day because "they are healthier." So fuck em!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Fuck being healthy at this point tbh, I just want to have a good time until I die, we’re all fucked anyways so what’s even the point, I get to suffer longer in old age from the climate wars? Great.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As someone with dietary gout I'd say be careful what you wish for. You can suffer for a long time, non-mortal, with loads of fucking useless pain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Gout is largely genetic. You can eat like shit and have all the gout-y foods you want if you're not genetically predisposed to it. Your point still stands though. I don't have first-hand experience thankfully, but being fat and out of shape, diabetic, etc., etc., etc., does not look fun.

No offense to you of course, but it just looks miserable from the outside.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

Thanks doctor, but in my case it isn't genetic. Now go be a doctor somewhere else please with your 5-minute Googly knowledge. Fucker.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool? The context is cooking for other people, if they don't think the same as you you are just being an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m sorry, I wasn’t really thinking about the context, I’m just in a bit of a dark mood at the moment. Thank you for your reply. Much love

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well, for all it matters to me you can cook as salty as you like <3

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

This guy foods. He had me when said he has tattoos.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, it generally works fine for sauces, but you're not going to get salt to permeate into your noodles from just throwing it on top afterwards, for example.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Went to a new Asian place. Cheff had no idea what vegan means. Cheff is on the phone with his family while taking my order. Cheff starts singing in mandarin while cooking. Best Asian restaurant in the city.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

was his name Cheff?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cheffery

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Cheffery Cooke

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's like they're not even doing coke 😮‍💨

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I was gonna say, it's like he's not even on meth. Are these people even trying anymore?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Add acid instead of salt. Like vinegar or lemon juice. Better flavor, healthier, and same effect. Too many people over salt it's god awful.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

2 tabs of LSD on my dinner it is!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Hey it's been a couple of hours Are you okay

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Actually, acid contributes to tooth decay. The reason sugar causes tooth decay is that bacterial metabolise the sugar using anaerobic respiration, which produces acid. When you eat acid, you skip the middleman and go straight to cavities.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Salt and acid are two separate (and central) components of building flavor.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like oversalting is a popular attempted cover up for mediocrity. I'm tired of waking up the next morning after a dinner out feeling like the mummy from Brendan Fraser's "the mummy"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sometimes, yep. Other times people just get desensitized from eating too much of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People also tend to add more seasoning (particularly salt) as they get older and their senses dull.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To my knowledge, sensory organs also don't dull. You might need glasses or have hearing damage, but dulling is a new one to me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dunno. I was going off common wisdom I'd heard over the years about people over salting their food as they get older.

Mayo clinic says yes though.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/healthy-aging/expert-answers/loss-of-taste-and-smell/faq-20058455

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh cool, I will be reading that later!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

my wife is always criticizing

She sounds salty

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

cries in hypertension