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Posts tagged “salting to taste”

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 ...

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. ...