How To Salt Your Food

[pirate_girl]

It seems like a simple task, but it's worthy of an article at Serious Eats: How to salt food.

Almost every home cook I know has proudly declared, "I hardly use any salt in my cooking." But when I ask them what makes restaurant cuisine taste so good, they all agree: it's the salt.
After all these years spent as a home cook, never once having made it through an entire box of salt, it's unnerving to make your first foray into confidently salting food. But salt truly is the one factor that will give your food the pop, pizazz and wow every cook craves. Doing it right just takes a little trial and error.
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And here's a trick:

A final trick, and this will feel posery at first, practice salting food at a height of about 10 or 12 inches above it. The distance gives a better sense of just how much salt you're trickling, and the granules will spread more evenly over the food's surface. It gives the cook a certain sense of confidence, too. Chances are you won't overdo it when salting in this fashion. But, I suppose that's debatable.
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[Doc]

Interesting PG. Thanks!!!!!

 

[pirate_girl]

Welcome

 

[WVBill]

Another hint I learned years ago is "Always taste your food before reaching for the salt shaker."

 

[jpr62902]

Instead of salt, I've been using this: http://www.nusalt.com/faq/index.html

My primary care doc says it's okay.

 

[pirate_girl]

Instead of salt, I've been using this: http://www.nusalt.com/faq/index.html

My primary care doc says it's okay.

It is Jim. It's a popular substitute on all the tables at work for our patients and residents, that and Mrs. Dash.

I have never gotten into the habit of using a salt shaker since I was a kid.
So now, my taste buds are accustomed to flavours as they are.
IF I do salt something, I shake a little in the palm of my hand and spread it around the dish.
If recipes call for salt, I leave it out, then do the taste and add method.

 

[muleman]

I use Lite Salt from morton on the rare times I use salt at all. Mostly only baked potatoes or beets. We don't add any when cooking and use a lot of Mrs. dash in a variety of flavors.