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> I realized how much high-calorie ingredients you have to add to make the food taste delicious. Is that not a trap? Most professional cooks who want to stand
by mpol 6y ago
> I realized how much high-calorie ingredients you have to add to make the food taste delicious.
Is that not a trap? Most professional cooks who want to stand out use lots of salt and sugar, sometimes up to a point that I find it disgusting. I can imagine if you are used to that much salt and sugar, you need it again to taste anything. But believe me, you can unlearn it and start to taste the food itself, instead of the added salt and sugar.
I learned the rule that a cook that uses lots of salt and sugar is a bad cook.
- war1025 6y agoI agree on the sugar aspect, but having been brought up firmly in the "salt is the devil" camp by my parents, it was an absolute revelation for me that the way you get rid of that hollow taste in food is by adding salt. I used to always make dishes that had all the right ingredients to taste good, but just didn't. The thing they were missing was salt.
- kyriakos 6y agoSadly there are numerous substitutes for sugar but haven't found anything for salt.