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Posts tagged “salting”

Recipe Rescue! What To Do If You Oversalt

How many times have we delicately salted a dish...and salted a little more...and a wee bit more...and then, oops! Suddenly our dish has gone from under-seasoned to tasting like seawater. Can anything ...

Food Science: Why Salad Greens Wilt

On a hot summer evening, a big leafy salad for dinner sounds just about perfect. That is, until the greens start to wilt and the dressing gets all watery. We always figured this phenomenon had somethi...

Cook's Talk: A Three-Fingered Pinch of Salt

We've seen this phrase "a three-fingered pinch" popping up in a lot of recipes recently, and we think it's a great way to describe a rather indeterminate amount of seasoning. We're being told to add m...

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. ...