If you can smell the salt, you might be using too much.
Honestly, salt is my secret ingredient. Way more than anyone else is brave enough to put in, but it makes things delicious.
Who needs to have functional kidneys anyway
I want some big, strong kidneys! Got to train them every day.
This is probably a joke, but do try to limit your salt intake to something healthy: https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/salt
I’d be curious to know how much salt you actually end up eating. It’s all fine to say no more than 5 grams, but how do you go about working out how much you actually had?
E.g. I cook pasta with heaps of salt in the water, salty like the sea, but the vast majority of the salt goes down the drain when the pasta is strained.
Of course, unless you’re being terribly precise, you don’t know very accurately.
Though, with the exception of pasta water, you can keep track via number of teaspoons as an approximation, or if you have precise scales tare off your container to see how much you’re using.
Packaged foods are much easier.
I personally just try to keep it minimal while keeping the food taste nice. I don’t measure my salt.
I’m not saying change your habits, just be aware that excessive salt can he unhealthy!
Well aware that excessive salt can be unhealthy 😅. I don’t even track what I eat too closely. I might make a big dish of lasagne, maybe the meat has 3 or 4 teaspoons of salt, then the pasta has some, the sauce has some, I might also throw in some soy sauce, the cheese has some, etc. Then out of this giant dish, I serve up one scoop, throw on some tomato sauce that has salt in it, and serve alongside vegetables that have their own salt content depending on how they were cooked.
I honestly have no idea if I eat 2, 5, or 15 teaspoons of salt a day 😆
I might make a big dish of lasagne, maybe the meat has 3 or 4 teaspoons of salt,
Seems fine to me. That’s about 4 daily doses of salt, depending how many servings that is, probably totally fine. This isn’t medical advice haha
In any case, at least you’re having something delicious 😁
Heaps of servings in the dish, but only one meal haha.
I once read it can be hard to put as much salt in your home cooked meals as what you get in fast food or processed food. And if you’re shaking the salt on top, it may be negligible no matter how much you put on.
i remain extremely unconvinced this is any better than people freaking out about fat back in the day.
You can’t take population-level recommendations and apply it to yourself as an individual, needs can vary HUGELY from person to person and if you keep finding salt tasty then for all you know you actually NEED that extra salt to be healthy and reducing your intake would be bad. There’s no one universal amount of salt that is healthy.No one’s freaking out, just don’t eat too much. Many, many packaged things have a bunch of salt in them. And in general, it’s good to be aware of.
Salt requirements obviously vary from person to person and depend on your activity that day (losing it to sweat) etc.
You’re not gonna die from a bit too much salt every now and then.
But as all things: In moderation.
Just because the situation with fat was stupid (and, in my opinion, was because of marketing by vested interests to take the heat of sugar) doesn’t mean all health science is quackery.
“Too much salt is bad for you” isn’t a radical take.
Yup. It’s always what one considers too much plus one more shake to season perfectly…but that still doesn’t stop me from under seasoning when cooking new dishes. Can always salt later.
Taste as you go!
Though I have definitely been caught out by salting it perfectly then it reduces and is then too salty.
Growing up my mom would tend to oversalt the food she cooked, which lead to me thinking most normal food tastes bland without more salt
Who told you she over salted it, the people making the bland food? 😅
I only use the LD50 but that’s mostly to stop people from getting seconds.
Not that it matters at that point but is it scaled to one LD50 per serving or nah?
It wouldn’t work well if it wasn’t.
I started cooking for elderly people and I’m not allowed to use salt at all. But I’ll see them dumping salt on it at the table.
i’d assume this is still better because they clearly see how much salt goes on it
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And Umami
And my ass
I also choose Toaster’s ass.
Ooooh, mommy
I have so many sauces like this, works for many dishes. E.g. soy sauce, honey, rice vinegar, chili / ginger. Fat from whatever is sautéing rn
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Yep, it’s a bit of a production, but a very memorable meal.
fat acid heat. Just missing sugar for the quardfecta.
It makes the onions fry quicker in oil!
Cause it draws out the moisture
Oops I had been adding sugar.
Found the american
They said sugar, not corn syrup
That should technically work as well, since sugar also draws water out. It’s also a common tip in those recipes that use quick ‘caramelized’ onions, since it also browns faster than real caramelized onions. If you’re wanting to lower your sugar intake and aren’t worried about upping your salt (no high blood pressure, kidney problems, etc) then salt probably works better for drawing out moisture and getting cooked onions. But if you’re wanting the caramelized onion taste the trade off will be longer saute time to actually caramelize the sugars in the onion.
You usually cook onions because they already contain a lot of sugar…
Should be ginger instead of salt.
I mean, you need salt. But you don’t smell it.
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The bummer is that garlic that big tends to be less potent. I think that’s elephant garlic? Bought it once, was very disappointed.
Always at least double the garlic called for.
Just put some in at the end of cooking if you like garlic, no need to waste it.
I read somewhere that if you’re cooking dinner and shit falls behind just start sautéing some onion and it will smell so good people will happily wait and be ready to eat when you are ready to serve, 15-30 minutes.
That’s pretty fair. I generally get a pack of dinner rolls, parker-house or whatever cook them ahead and let them rest under a tea towel.
An appetiser is the ultimate time saver, because someone ALWAYS shows up starving.
Me, I’m that someone. Got any rolls?
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Lol my mom used to tell me she’d come home exhausted from work and wouldn’t know what she was going to feed us, so she’d just put some garlic and onions in a pan to fry while she wound down and figure it out as she went. She said the smell at least made it seem like she had it all figured out, to us anyway
My mom, who was a self admitted not-good cook would start these on the stove a bit before dad was set to come home. He’d be hungry but smelled too good and he would finish cooking for us
There’s a common joke about that. It goes something like: “A [Ukrainian] starts frying onion and garlic in a pan and only then starts thinking about what they want to make.”
[Ukrainian] can be substituted for most other countries, to be honest.
But, to be real, garlic shouldn’t be fried for that long IMO, so I’d only put in the garlic about 30s before I was ready to start adding all the other ingredients. But, with the onions, I’ve actually started onions more than 30 minutes before figuring out what else I wanted to make. That way they have a chance to get good and caramelized. That doesn’t work for every recipe, but it works for a lot of them.
How do you prepare the garlic? Cut or pressed or just sliced?
90% of the time I’m using garlic I mince it. The other 10% it’s thinly sliced or just crushed.
Garlic and onion in oil is enough to trigger my hay-fever and irritate my nose so that shit doesn’t actually smell good to me
Skill issue
A cursed existence
Been trying to figure out how to explain to my little kids that they don’t like the taste of onions, they like the flavor.
They love McDonald’s cheeseburgers, chips of all sorts, all with onions. They’re small, biting an onion is too much for their taste buds, so they think they hate onions.
Anyone help me articulate the idea? LOL, it’s funny I think on it so much.
Pickled onions… yum!
They taste different when cooked.
Caramelize them properly and they go from weird, sour but slightly spicy vegetables to straight up candy.
Eat it or starve.
You don’t drink ketchup. You don’t eat salt. But if you try unsalted fries without ketchup you’ll understand what salt and ketchup are for.
For me, I dislike (and as a child, hated) the texture of onions. Onion as a flavour has always been fine, it was biting them that was the problem.
Caramelize the onions a bit and blend half into a paste, ask which one tastes bad. If they answer that only the chunky onion is bad, teach them about texture preferences.
they don’t like the taste of onions, they like the flavor.
I don’t think the distinction between “taste” and “flavour” is the right way to frame it. Raw onion on its own can be overwhelming. If you eat a hamburger with raw onion on it, the amount of raw onion per bite will be pretty small, and it will be one taste in a whole bunch of other tastes. Your kids probably wouldn’t like eating pure salt, or pure pepper either. But, food with some salt tastes great.
Having said that, fried onions are a whole different game. After 5 minutes the onion loses a lot of its potency and gets a bit sweet. After 30 minutes it’s basically a very slightly pungent candy. For a French Onion Soup, you can cook them for up to 2 hours before they’re ready. A pot that’s full to the brim of raw onions reduces down to a thin layer at the bottom, and they taste more like gummy worms than onions at that point.
I love French Onion Soup, and occasionally make it. I’d make it more, it’s just that slicing up more than a kilogram of onions is a whole process. It’s so difficult it makes me cry every time I do it.
A second hand mandoline a game changer in that regard! Chopping/slicing/cutting evenly suddenly to a fraction of the time. Would drivel recommend (second hand because first hand are stupidly expensive if you rent good quality)
Yeah, I’ve used a mandoline to do it before. Frankly, that’s really the only way I’d do it these days. But, even then, it’s a lot of work and it’s hard on the eyeballs. Plus, mandolines are scary. I know what not to do when using one, but it’s like a fear of heights. Even if you know you’re doing it safely, it’s still nerve wracking. Maybe if I had a chain-mail glove I could do it without fear, but I don’t have one.
I found a plastic handle for the mandoline. If you mess up, the handle gets cut but your fingers survive unscathed.
I’d be interested to see what that is. It seems like it would be hard to make that work because securely gripping the thing you’re chopping is an important part of using a mandoline.
This is the contrary to a shitpost IMO!
There wee several house-party focused cookbooks that suggested to just fry off a pan of decoy onions as your guests enter the house. Doesn’t matter if they get used in a dish or not, just cook the onions.
shallot, butter, white wine
My dad hated onions, he’d pick them out of his meals like a 5 year old. One day after I found a love for cooking in highschool this happened and he decided to try my dishes. He was very proud that he only picked out 3 onion pieces and kept the rest lol.
Honestly I don’t like onion pieces either, but I find that if I chop them small enough I don’t mind it.
I do that because of the consistency difference between the huge pieces of crunchy onion and the smooth meat and mushy rice. If the onion is caramelised or cut to a mush, or onion powder I don’t mind it.
Except butter instead of oil
And bacon instead of salt
Coward. I use both. And then salt the fuck out of it. Every meal takes a year off my life, but fuck if I’m not enjoying the ones I’m left with
salt the fuck out of it.
I misread this as ‘fuck the salt out of it’ for just a moment.
Why “instead” ?
I have seen this picture of an onion before
It looks nice.
That’s what a generative AI would say
Salt doesn’t smell.
Yours maybe.
Is that because it doesn’t have a nose?
My dog has no nose.
Not with that attitude
Why do they call them smelling salts?
Some salts smell. Table salt (what’s pictured in the meme) doesn’t have a detectable smell in solid form, not enough vaporizes to notice. Smelling salts are ammonium carbonate, not sodium chloride like table salt, and they do smell strongly. “Salt” can refer to either table salt or to any ionic compound whatsoever. The latter is chemistry jargon, but then gets used in colloquial terms like “smelling salts” or “salty licorice” neither of which have table salt but both of which have other ionic compounds.
why are people acting so normal, is this not just a loss meme? have I lost it?
Wrong number of objects in 2nd and 3rd panels to be a lost meme
It appears Quinny has indeed, lost it.
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