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Posts tagged “salt to taste”

Cook's Tricks: How to Properly Season a Dish

For a long time, we were intimidated by that innocent little phrase at the end of the recipe: "Adjust seasonings to taste." If we don't know what the dish is supposed to taste like, how are we suppose...

Cooking Without Recipes: Understanding Flavor

When something tastes fantastic, it literally sings in our mouths. And when something doesn't taste quite right, we know that too--even if we can't always put our finger on what's off or how we can fi...

Food Science: Salting to Taste

Salt to taste. Such a simple and innocent instruction! We've read those words a million times over the years without thinking anything of it. But lately we started wondering what this really means. ...