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One of my exes told me all the time, that the meals are missing some salt (literally telling me "all the time you add too few salt, even while I almost oversaturated the meal, just for her), the steak is not "done" enough, fished out all kinds of vegetables... Then she took the salt, goes to the kitchen and cooked the meat again or something else... I find it kind of rude being like that, tbh.
I once lived with two guys (a partner of mine, and his cousin), neither of whom ever did any cleaning whatsoever, so it all fell on me (the only woman, no surprise there.)
One day I took out the mop and started mopping the kitchen. The cousin started criticizing the way I was mopping, so I handed him the mop and told him, "If you're so good at it, maybe you should be doing it instead." He never criticized my cleaning again.
It's such a weird phenomenon where people feel as though they're helping by criticizing you and "just giving you advice to be more efficient" or whatever stuff, but if you ask them to help by actually doing something they get repulsed.
Some people have a (genetic?) predisposition to really like salt on things. I had a friend where most of their family salted things you wouldn’t expect and had lots of salty foods. Salt on melon slices for instance, snack foods like pickles and such. Dad died of a heart attack. No idea if it’s related.
My gran loved salt, and would pour a pile of it onto her plate to dip things in. My mum's always been more of a health freak than her mother, but as she's gotten older her cooking has started including noticeably more salt.
Salt on melon is legit, if you apply only a light amount and let the salt spread through the watery flesh before eating it then it actually makes it taste much sweeter without being salty tasting.
Salt & chili powder is the best. A brand called Tajín is pretty good and is sold in pretty much every Hispanic grocery store
They’d use a shaker. I understand salt can enhance some sweetness, but I’ve never liked it on fresh fruit.
My family is like that. Our heart disease is actually unrelated
That was my family, the food wasn’t salty per se but they’d put salt on most things, once on the table,including watermelon, actually not bad.
I'm ethnically East-Asian but grew up in the UK/Canada. Born in the lower class and I'm middle-ish myself now.
I watched a lot of Gordon Ramsey and I finally decided to shell out for a fancy meal with my brother at the Savoy. I swear, everything tasted way too salted ... like every course except for the dessert. I was like, "damn, rich people love salt I guess?" or maybe it's just what I grew up with that I underseason things but man it was weird.
I do quite a lot of cooking and am pretty good at it, but yeah, classic restaurants often just slap in a lot of salt (+cream and butter) and that's supposed to be delicious. If you use any other spices, vinegars, soy sauces or whatever, the food at a restaurant like that will be salty bland.