By poormanslucyliu1 - 07/11/2016 02:28

Today, I had to teach my 13-year-old sister that sugar and salt don't, "cancel each other out to make the taste neutral". FML
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RichardPencil 30

Duh! Everyone knows you need pepper to cancel out salt.

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Xelabasat 14

Just let her try it. She'll figure it out for herself once she tastes it

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TriangularBanana 8

You cannot deny the logic in her thinking, OP.

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alphafish17 16

For some reason I read this as "sugar and cereal"

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dkane 12

I kind of want to know what that tastes like now...

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CooperCooper 2

McDonald's do this all the time. You wouldn't think their buns were like a bag of sugar unless someone told you. How? They use salt to mask it.

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magicrainbowbewb 8

teach her that if the dish is too salty, a little bit of lemon juice often balances it

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GhostFox 33

People have a lot of different "fixes" for things being too salty... Most of them sound like they would make it worse, though. Or just not taste right. The cooking classes I've taken have all taught that if you make something too salty or too sweet, add more starch to it. Ground up boiled potato, flour, cooked rice ground up, cornstarch, etc. The starch supposedly absorbs the salt or sugar and masks the flavor. Though they also taught that if you over salted or sweetened, it was ideal to scrap everything that was over seasoned... So take the advice with a grain of salt.

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GhostFox 33

... I'm so sorry for the pun(?) at the end. It wasn't intended.

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Euly 3

To be fair, in tomato sauce thats true.

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Goblin182 26

That fact teaches itself.

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