On Saturday, January 30, 2021 at 6:59:50 PM UTC-10, Graham wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 21:17:55 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> > On 2021-01-30 8:48 p.m., BryanGSimmons wrote:
> >
> >> He's not a snowflake, but I really try to please every person with my
> >> cooking. Sometimes that means making small allowances. Because some of
> >> it is going to my wife's parents, I didn't put any aged cheese in it. MY
> >> MIL believes that aged cheeses make her more likely to get a migraine.
> >> I also undersalt. It's got nothing to do with health, but my wife
> >> prefers less salt, so most meals my son and I go for the salt before
> >> even tasting.
> >
> > I think that it has been pretty well established that most people have
> > too much salt in their diet and probably need to cut back. I was
> > supposed to be careful with salt for the last 10 years. Then last summer
> > I was put on a salt free diet. I have found ways to improve the taste of
> > meals without adding salt.I don't miss the salt now as much as I used
> > to. My son and his partner switched to low salt shortly after I had. A
> > couple months later they went out for supper for the first time in a
> > while and they found the restaurant food to be very salty.
> >
> You only have to watch tele-chefs and see the amount of salt they chuck on
> everything!
> I use very little in my cooking and even cut the recommended amount in
> bread recipes.
Americans are reluctant to use the amount of oil that chefs, especially Chinese chefs, use. I realized some time ago to use oil freely. It was quite a liberating experience.