If you can smell the salt, you might be using too much.
Why does it taste good starter pack.
Salt, sugar, fat, acid
And Umami
And my ass
Ooooh, mommy
I also choose Toaster’s ass.
Why am I tripping balls starter pack
Acid, Mushrooms, Ayahuasca, Ibogaine, DMT, Butter
All at once?
Yep, it’s a bit of a production, but a very memorable meal.
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
fat acid heat. Just missing sugar for the quardfecta.
Honestly, salt is my secret ingredient. Way more than anyone else is brave enough to put in, but it makes things delicious.
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.
Who needs to have functional kidneys anyway
I want some big, strong kidneys! Got to train them every day.
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? 😅
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.
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.
A better combination is onions, carrots and celery
You mean a mirepoix?
Or onions, green peppers, and celery. I guarantee.
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.
Not enough garlic in that picture
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.
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
A cursed existence
Skill issue
Salt doesn’t smell.
Is that because it doesn’t have a nose?
My dog has no nose.
Not with that attitude
Yours maybe.
Why do they call them smelling salts?
What about the wonderful stink of cumin?
I just don’t put on deodorant, same thing
It’s a personal thing, but the smell of cumin kills my appetite. I had a bad experience with it once and I can’t shake the association between the smell and the experience.
Except butter instead of oil
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” ?
And bacon instead of salt
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.
shallot, butter, white wine
I have seen this picture of an onion before
It looks nice.
That’s what a generative AI would say
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.
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.
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.
Pickled onions… yum!
Should be ginger instead of salt.
I mean, you need salt. But you don’t smell it.
Idk, sometimes just baked bread and sugar smells really good too.
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.
😭
