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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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.

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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.

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

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20 points

2 tabs of LSD on my dinner it is!

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

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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”

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

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

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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

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

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

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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. 😁

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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I think gay is tattoo equivalent for cooking…

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Real and gay

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7 points

The frog legs are making my monocle gay.

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“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.”

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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.

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my wife is always criticizing

She sounds salty

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