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mdct
@sword.zone

cooking PSA: using the right amount of salt in your food is 80% of making it taste good. you can be bad at almost every aspect of cooking, but if you salt your food right every time, you're better than a lot of people you can't 'skip salt'. you only don't add salt if you're using salty ingredients

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Bruceski
@bruceski.bsky.social

I tend not to season because I mostly encounter over-seasoners and don't have a good gauge for it, but my meatloaf recipe came from a book that got the salt and pepper exactly right and it tastes golden and amazing.

mdct
@sword.zone

pro ground meat meal salt strat: make your mix, add salt, then take a small quantity of the meat and just quickly fry a small medallion of it then taste. it won't be exactly like the final product, but saltiness is a linear scale in taste vs other things having a presence vs quantity quality to them

mdct
@sword.zone

also my guess is that the salt in that recipe is probably at exactly 1.5% by weight, the happy medium point that basically every food will be Good at

mdct
@sword.zone

if you don't know what the right amount of salt is, then taste as you cook. can't do this with everything, but for a lot, you can and if you want a good rule of thumb on what the right amount is anyway, it's 1% to 2% by weight of what you're cooking depending on preference. that's what 'to taste' is