Too much salt

[tricia1]

can anyone help!! i have put too much salt in the salt and pepper chicken
how do i rectify this?

 

[Uncle Bob]

Morning, and Welcome to DC Miss Tricia. I am not familiar with your recipe. Have you already cooked the dish? Also knowing the recipe may help folks come up with a workable solution to your problem.

 

[malabarcost]

Add little hald boiled potatos and remove it before serving. or you can add some youghert, may be a new recipe from your kitchen.we indians add curd or youghert if we put more salt.

 

[GB]

Add little hald boiled potatos and remove it before serving.

This is an old wives tale that does not work. For a great explanation, see this article.

Really, the only way to make something less salty without changing the dish is to make a second batch without salt (or less salt) and combine the two.

 

[Constance]

Another suggestion is to turn your chicken into a soup or stew with vegetables. The extra salt in the chicken will season the vegetables and broth, just like a chunk of ham seasons beans.

 

[tricia1]

too much salt

thankyou for all your replys, let me explain what it was i cooked,
strips of chicken fillet put in batter and deep fried with onions and peppers the recipe called for a genorous amount of sea salt and black pepper but i used table salt as i couldent get sea salt and put in too much salt so how do i get rid of the salty flavour?

 

[Andy M.]

If the salt is in the coating, your only solution to saving the food is to break off the coating and eat the chicken. If it's mixed in with the onions and peppers, all you can do is cook more with no salt and combine as GB said.

 

[radhuni]

In India we immerse green leafy vegetables(shak) in the curry if you put too much salt in it. Keep it for 15 min then remove the shak and serve it.

This is not an old wives tale because I do it myself.

 

[catloverr2003]

Ever since I realized that one teaspoon of salt has somewhere around 2300 milligrams of sodium, which is about the same as our recommended daily allowance, and knowing how bad for us salt is, I've been drastically cutting back on salt intake.

I no longer salt pasta water, I don't add salt to things that contain other things that are already salty (like soy sauce, ham, etc.), and I rarely add salt at the table (unless it's corn on the cob, or if whomever made dinner didn't salt it at all or nearly enough).

I used to oversalt things and just dealt with it or didn't eat it. But I've never oversalted anything like soup.

 

[Barb L.]

You may have to toss it, I like salt but too much can ruin the taste of anything. Its easier to add than remove.

 

[Chefellas]

This is an old wives tale that does not work. For a great explanation, see this article.

Really, the only way to make something less salty without changing the dish is to make a second batch without salt (or less salt) and combine the two.

I don't know what to say. I read the article and I know that it's scientific but....................Maybe I have had a kitchen miracle. Numerous times I've added potato(peeled but whole) to overly salty soups and stews and it has helped to desalt the meal.

 

[GB]

Have you left the potatoes in or taken then out?

 

[Bilby]

The test can be deemed to be faulty anyway as it is a taste perception not how well it conducts electricity. He didn't taste the liquid before and after the potato inclusion, only the potato itself. We don't throw potatoes into the pot (when trying to lessen the salty flavour) to make the potatoes taste nice!

I too have used the "old wives tale" and I have found it works, and that is with leaving it in and taking it out.

 

[GB]

What he was measuring with the electrical conductivity was the concentration of salt in solution. What is test proved is that the concentration does not change.

 

[Bilby]

Yes I understood what he was doing just pointing out that taste is not a scientific issue. You determine how salty a dish tastes by eating it, not by seeing whether you can power a torch with it. For his test to be useful in disproving the theory, he should have tasted the liquid before and after immersing the potato, irrespective of the conductivity issue, as that is the claim of the theory.

 

[GB]

I would challenge you then to do your own blind taste test. Do the same test he did, but taste each liquid. Of course you will need help with this so you do not know which is which. Taste them yourself and see if you really can tell the difference or if it is just the placebo effect.

 

[Bilby]

All I can say GB is that I am very sensitive to the taste of salt after having had a salt-free diet for years and notice when something tastes less salty than before. As I said previously, and have others, the method works for us.

The point I raised is to do with his article, not your opinion. To disprove something, you should address the claims being made, not a variant issue, however related. You are entitled to believe it a fallacy. Personally, I don't but no offense is intended to you by my view of his test.

 

[GB]

No offense taken. If it works for you then go with it, by all means.

 

[babetoo]

i only use salt in baked goods. everthing else, herbs and unsalted spices. if your guests want more salt they can add it. i also try to buy less salt products ie veg ,canned soups and so on.

i have high blood pressure and diabetics.plus really don't like things that i can taste the salt in,

babe

 

[CharlieD]

though I agree that you should cut on salt because of your health reasons, I disagree that guests can just add salt. It really depends on what it is you are serving. If it is soup it's fine, but if it is potatoor piece of meat it is not going to taste the same. I mean you can't just add salt to dry (if you wish) cooked goods.