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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] 11 points 6 hours ago (2 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] 1 points 53 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours 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] 10 points 8 hours 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 7 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 hours 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] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 75 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours 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] 33 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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] 31 points 11 hours 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] 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

The frog legs are making my monocle gay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

I think gay is tattoo equivalent for cooking...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours 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] 26 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

cries in hypertension