Kayelle
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A pinch of spilled salt must be thrown into the devils eyes over the left shoulder.
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A pinch of spilled salt must be thrown into the devils eyes over the left shoulder.
Rachel Ray lives by that one.
My mother's version was that the gum would wind round your intestines and strangle you. Showed a slight misunderstanding of anatomy!same thing with swallowing bubble gum and fingernails. they form a ball that stays in your stomach forever.
Well, it's worked for me whenever I've overdone the salt anytime in the last 50 years.That one has been debunked many times over.
Sara’s Kitchen Revelations – Oversalted it? There is one solution. | Sara Moulton | Chef, Cookbook Author, Television Personality
Debunk of Day: Potato Fixes Too Salty Soup - kitchenmage
Myth: A Potato Can Save a Salty Soup or Stew | Cooking Myths Debunked | Real Simple
Red sky at night, shepherd's pie!...No - wait... I might have made that up!
Ah my post was a pun on "red sky at night, shepherd's delight!"Red sky at night, sailors delight. Red sky in the morn, sailors be warned.
But I do like yours. Sounds like good excuse to make a popular dish that almost everyone likes.
The potato (or potatoes - one isn't enough in a big pot of soup) absorbs the salt as it would when cooking potatoes for dinner. The potato is discarded (or used for something else if you hate waste, like me) when the soup is cooked.The only way I've been able to save something too salty is to add more unsalted liquid.
It might mess up the rest of the ingredients and spices, but worth a try when you've got a pot of inedible salty food.
The potato (or potatoes - one isn't enough in a big pot of soup) absorbs the salt as it would when cooking potatoes for dinner. The potato is discarded (or used for something else if you hate waste, like me) when the soup is cooked.
Adding more liquid would dilute the flavour.
You'd have as much success putting a sponge in the soup.