Restaurants and their "use" of salt

[JWags85]

No I'm not.  Maybe your friends and family don't know how to cook?  There are many great restaurants but there are a ton more that are mediocre or crap.

You're honestly talking like cause you scored 25 points in your weekly hoops game at the gym, you could hold your own on a mid major college team.

You literally said the "average person/solid home cook" makes better meals than MOST restaurants.  That is absolutely absurd and moronic.

You got unexpected pushback to your conspiracy that every restaurant is poisoning us all with "5-10x" salt than needed, so now you're some how morphing into the idea that your food expertise is beyond reproach and creating wild false equivalences.

[MU82]

Time to dash from your salty argument, Muggs. Seas-on desist!

[MuggsyB]

I'm being attacked unfairly but I should have used other words that solid home cooks. 

[reinko]

I'm being attacked unfairly but I should have used other words that solid home cooks.

With this response, you are either 8 or 80 years old, no in between

[Herman Cain]

I'm being attacked unfairly but I should have used other words that solid home cooks.

Muggsy:
The basic premise of your Rant is excellent . I am firmly in the anti-salt camp. There is Plenty of sodium from natural sources . If people want to salt their food thats why they have a salt shaker .

[WellsstreetWanderer]

I was told by a chef that , if a chef smokes, the taste buds are diminished and they compensate by adding more  salt to the recipe for flavor. 
There is no shame in letting staff know that the dish is not to your liking.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Wile hare is a good meal, but they are very hard to grab. Not sure how much salt is appropriate, though.

Rabbit in a Belgian beer sauce in Brussels? Magnificent!

[Hards Alumni]

I'm with Muggsy, here.  I can't stand when I get a beautiful braised rib and then I bite into it only to be completely overpowered by salt.

But I'm also with chick here.  A $200 per pop night you should be sending that back if it is not to your liking.

If you're at qdoba and your burrito is too salty, then you just don't eat at qdoba anymore.  If it happens at a fancy schmancy place you ask for it to be fixed.

Quit being so Midwest nice. 

[real chili 83]

Mugster,

Give this a whirl.....

Slice up a honey crisp, grind a little Himalayan pink salt over the slices, and dip in extra crunchy peanut butter.

Savory heaven.

[MuggsyB]

Mugster,

Give this a whirl.....

Slice up a honey crisp, grind a little Himalayan pink salt over the slices, and dip in extra crunchy peanut butter.

That sounds really good!  I will echo that everyone should have kosher or sea salt. 

Savory heaven.

[Herman Cain]

Mayos thoughts on salt

https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/is-sea-salt-healthier-than-table-salt#:~:text=Experts%20recommend%20limiting%20salt%20of,40%25%20when%20measured%20by%20weight.

[StillAWarrior]

We'll agree to disagree. I like plenty of salt and use it generously.  What I don't like is 10 vats of it on my food.  As for everyone has different tastes?  Yes but that's not the issue here.  People conform with all sorts of things including food, restaurants, etc.  Behavioral psychologists have actually studied this and done a number of tests.
I would encourage you to read Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.  The fact of the matter is when the average person (who is a solid cook) prepares dishes at home, dishes they make that are usually better than most restaurants, they probably use anywhere from 1/5 to 1/10 the amount of salt.   I don't like light salt, I like the right portion of salt depending on the dish.

10 vats! No hyperbole here!

But you're absolutely right. After all, you've got the James Beard awards and Michelin Stars to prove it. Everyone else are just unrefined morons.

I'm starting to understand why you like animals so much.

[Dr. Blackheart]

I meant finding a woman who is both zesty and salty but I guess that's an option too

The Theorem of Three is a thing, hey?

[MU82]

Mayos thoughts on salt

But what are salt's thoughts on mayo?

[forgetful]

Muggsy:
The basic premise of your Rant is excellent . I am firmly in the anti-salt camp. There is Plenty of sodium from natural sources . If people want to salt their food thats why they have a salt shaker .

I've never been to a fine dining restaurant (read top restaurants) where there is a salt shaker on the table.

[real chili 83]

Mugsy follows eutectic curve principles when applying salt when he cooks.

He's not just a chef, he's a food scientist.

[MuggsyB]

Mugsy follows eutectic curve principles when applying salt when he cooks.

He's not just a chef, he's a food scientist.

I'm quite adept in the kitchen.  Again, diminutive people being attacked for no reason. 

[Hards Alumni]

I'm quite adept in the kitchen.  Again, diminutive people being attacked for no reason. 

Sounds like you're a little salty.

[21Jumpstreet]

I'm firmly in the camp that salt brings out the best in food. I have a salt grinder, coarse kosher salt, sea salt, Celtic Sea salt, and Maldon salt flakes always at the ready on the back of my stove. I'm sure I'm a little further on the salt end of the seasoning spectrum than the average person.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Sounds like you're a little salty.

Heard you are a shaker.

[CreightonWarrior]

I'm quite adept in the kitchen.  Again, diminutive people being attacked for no reason. 

I don't understand how you haven't learned the consequences of bad takes on this board yet.

[lawdog77]

I don't understand how you haven't learned the consequences of bad takes on this board yet.

Sometimes, his takes are so dium

[tower912]

Na. Cl assy

[MuggsyB]

The WSJ weekend print edition has an article about Salt which touches on a lot covered in this thread.  One thing the writer mentioned which I did not know is that in the 50's in Japan there were extremely high stroke rates.  The government actually required lower Salt levels (12 grams a day goal )in foods and restaurants and as a result, in a relatively short period of time, those rates decreased dramatically.  I think we oversalt to a fault.  I will just leave it at that. 

[warriorchick]

The WSJ weekend print edition has an article about Salt which touches on a lot covered in this thread.  One thing the writer mentioned which I did not know is that in the 50's in Japan there were extremely high stroke rates.  The government actually required lower Salt levels (12 grams a day goal )in foods and restaurants and as a result, in a relatively short period of time, those rates decreased dramatically.  I think we oversalt to a fault.  I will just leave it at that.

We also don't dump a crap ton of soy sauce on everything we eat.