My turn: What food items will you salt?

[lovin'fl]

Particularly like it on fries and spaghetti (or red sauce dishes)...so potatoes and tomatoes. And now I like it on my margaritas...used to not.

 

[Searc]

I'm just going to come out and say it. If you don't salt your food while cooking (and you aren't using already salted ingredients), you're not a good cook. Salt is ESSENTIAL to tasty food. It doesn't have to be table salt that is added (in fact, it should never be table salt). But it is needed to bring out the flavor in food. I weep for people who say they grew up in a "salt free" home. I'm so sorry for your loss.

I consider myself a very good cook. I have about 10 different kinds of salts. I will salt EVERYTHING I make from scratch in some way. Literally nothing goes unsalted. No one in our house has issues with blood pressure. In fact, mine is always low. I used to eat kosher salt out of little Dixie cups when I was a kid. I've always craved it.

 

[Jimmy Mouse]

I salt my salt.

 

[low-key]

salt me baby

 

[Lilsia]

(in fact, it should never be table salt).

If you use the right amount, what difference does it make? All salt is the same basic elements. The differences are the grain size, and the amount of other minerals and impurities. Here is a good breakdown. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/different-types-of-salt#sea-salt

 

[EMom]

Watermelon!

 

[Planogirl]

I want salt on steak, popcorn and eggs. That's really all.

 

[Disney_Alli]

I use salt in the preparation and aside from hard boiled eggs I can't remember the last time I salted anything else at the table... corn on the cob and fresh cut tomatoes I guess too.

 

[aprilchem]

I salt a lot of things. I don't eat any processed food and I eat very, very few carbs (only from vegetables), so that makes me fairly sodium and magnesium deficient. The amount of added sodium that you get from salting food is relatively small, though, so in addition to that I drink a homemade electrolyte drink each day that has about 1000 mg of salt in it (along with some calcium and magnesium).

 

[mnrose]

I don't salt much, but I do tajin like crazy. LOL. Tajin goes on or in pretty much everything, liberally. On fresh cut fruit, veggies (cooked or raw), popcorn, soups (particularly vegetable or chicken), etc. Once you've gone Tajin, plain old salt ain't gonna cut it.

 

[tvguy]

Almost nothing, either on the table or while cooking. The salt shaker is in a cabinet, we don't even had salt and pepper shakers out. We tend to only season with garlic, onion or herbs.
In dealing with the high blood pressure the Doctor always says "cut out the salt at the table and in cooking".........and I have to explain we don't salt anything.

 

[luvsJack]

Watermelon!

Forgot about watermelon! Got to have it on watermelon.


Several have mentioned high blood pressure. My dr only mentioned not adding salt at the table, and using more low/no sodium products if I was going to add salt while cooking. I do limit how much I add to cooking. I actually measure it now when I didn’t in the past.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I will salt eggs after they are cooked or at the last minute while they are cooking.

Everything else gets salted before cooking.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

People who salt steak after it's cooked, salt and pepper the steak before you cook it. It makes a difference.

I can't even fathom not salting steak before you cook it.

 

[mrodgers]

After 10-11 hours at work, I have salt stains on my clothing from the 115° heat. When I'm working in the yard I sweat like crazy. On my bicycle rides I sweat like crazy and drink up to 4 gallons of fluids, and still not have to use the bathroom for 12-14 hours, and usually for several hours afterwards at home sucking down fluids.

I actually need the salt in the summers. I salt everything like crazy.

 

[mrodgers]

Particularly like it on fries and spaghetti (or red sauce dishes)...so potatoes and tomatoes. And now I like it on my margaritas...used to not.

Spaghetti is weird to hear people put salt on. That is about the only thing I don't salt. Yet, I do salt tomatoes if I am just eating a tomato by itself from the garden.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Hypertension runs in my family so I don't eat foods where salt is the main seasoning. Used to love a garden fresh tomato with a palm full of salt though.

 

[Searc]

Those of you who don't salt anything are missing out. I honestly feel bad for you.

 

[Lilsia]

Those of you who don't salt anything are missing out. I honestly feel bad for you.

So when our kids where young, I made their food for them from the beginning and did not salt it. Even after they were through with the pureed food and eating what we did, I did not want them to have that much salt and so I would not salt the food before cooking and hubby and I would salt it after. As they got older, I started adding salt and other seasonings like jerk to our food. It does make a huge difference in the taste but I did not want my kids to be one of those that got used to over salty foods and only want to eat that. This also helped us realize that we were consuming way too much salt and that most restaurants put a ton of salt in their foods, more then is necessary. Anyone that salts food at a restaurant should cut salt out of their diet for a while and then go back to those places. All you taste is the salt.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Nothing like a turkey sandwich with lots of butter and salt and pepper!