Any Home Bakers Here?

[OrganicFarmWife]

I am reading a cooking geek book now called the Food Lab. The Author said that the most common problem with home food is not adding enough salt.

My Mom taught me that salt was a flavor enhancer--add a pinch to your frosting and taste the difference.

I was taught to never add salt. Put salt on the table, let them add as desired. But yes, adding a pinch of salt to sweet does enhance flavor.

 

[ronott1]

I was taught to never add salt. Put salt on the table, let them add as desired. But yes, adding a pinch of salt to sweet does enhance flavor.

Some things need to have salt as they cook or they will not taste as good.

Potatoes need to absorb salt as well as pasta so they need to have salt during cooking them. Potatoes especially. The saying is that you cannot get salt into a potato after it is cookes. Food is supposed to be correctly seasoned before it is served--unless someone is on a salt restricted diet.

A new thing I learned from the book is to add salt to your scrambled eggs and let it sit for 15 minutes before cooking them--for scrambled eggs, quiches and etc. There is a reaction between the salt and egg proteins that helps the eggs to stay together.

I plan on trying this when I cook eggs this weekend for breakfast.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

There are some thing i dont like with salt i dont know about yall on that. I grew up watching my dad cover everything in salt to where all you saw was the salt. (He works in construction so he sweated out all the salt in his body and it craved/needed it)

 

[ronott1]

There are some thing i dont like with salt i dont know about yall on that. I grew up watching my dad cover everything in salt to where all you saw was the salt. (He works in cobsturction so he sweated out all the salt in his body and it craved/needed it)

Yes! Over saltin is bad too.

My Dad worked in a lumber mill out of high school and they gave them salt pills!

Salt is controversial but there are bad problems with not getting enough of it. If we cook most of our meals at home and from scratch we run the risk of not getting enough salt.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Lol yeah i cook with salt with potatoes corn and other things but i refuse on things like hamburgers or my scrambled eggs those my dad ruined on a regular baises thats probalby my issue, and my dad took salt pills as well

shudders. He still is a salt freak not nearly as bad but he still does construction but his meat actaully has color now days lol.

 

[sunflour]

I am reading a cooking geek book now called the Food Lab. The Author said that the most common problem with home food is not adding enough salt.

My Mom taught me that salt was a flavor enhancer--add a pinch to your frosting and taste the difference.

I think you have the answer...duh, wish I had realized that with the first one.

Somewhere I read sweet and salty or sweet and sour/tart are complimentary and boost the flavor.

So, when I bake the other one, planning to divide portions on a plate and Experiment

. Honestly this recipe has great promise, just some tweaking.

 

[sunflour]

Lol yeah i cook with salt with potatoes corn and other things but i refuse on things like hamburgers or my scrambled eggs those my dad ruined on a regular baises thats probalby my issue, and my dad took salt pills as well

shudders. He still is a salt freak not nearly as bad but he still does construction but his meat actaully has color now days lol.

Eggs can accept salt or pepper added. I know what you mean though, a friend makes the best deviled eggs, but her DH helps and over salts - you cannot remove it after adding too, too much.

But IMO hamburger meat needs salt or it is too bland.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Lol i use other spices for it and soy sauce i found add great flavor (salty as well lol) i just skip salt on it.

 

[ronott1]

Here is information on what salt does to eggs

 

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That's interesting @ronott1 . I've always put some salt in when I've beat the eggs, guess I should be doing it earlier. Thanks!