I know right. Like, wow, people can't possibly have different tastes from my own, right? What a joke! lol!
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Please season your food
- Thread starter jwk94
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I don't like much in the way of seasoning. By the OP's own example, saying that it's good chicken when it's not seasoned means that the chicken is good. If good chicken involves seasoning it, then it's not so much the chicken that's good as it is the seasoning. In either case, I prefer somewhat bland-tasting food. I'm put off by too much flavor.
discover the answer on your own by putting a table spoon of salt in your mouth then chase it with a bite of food of your choice. report back with your findings.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jan/28/experts-use-salt-in-cooking-why
Basically a bit of salt counteracts the bitter taste on our tongues and allows the other flavors of a meal to shine through more clearly.
I love my wife. But she doesn't understand this and it's a constant battle. Her mother didn't season her food either. I grew up with lots of different flavors so bland food repulses me. LMAO one time I was making tacos, which I had done a million times, and she came out as I was putting some chili sauce into the meat. She accused me of poisoning her mother with spices... led to a crazy screaming match. I love spice but I like to cook with all sorts of seasonings, I make a delicious rosemary lamb for instance, and my mushroom roast beef with red wine gravy is legit... fuck eating bland shit.
I use pepper for days but never put salt on anything. There's usually enough hot sauce in or around whatever I cook that there's really no point in other seasonings anyway so even the pepper is kind of a waste. I don't cook for other people though, it would be a sin
I think recent studies have shown that sodium isn't as large a contributing factor to hypertension as was previously thought.
All you really need tbh
The GOAT
https://www.fasebj.org/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.31.1_supplement.446.6
You also do realize there are seasonings other than salt, right? You can continue to cook bland food under the guise of health concerns.
You gotta be careful about putting salt on before cooking. Putting salt on will pull the moisture out when you're cooking, drying out your meat.
Use olive oil, garlic powder, pepper. Put the salt on near the end of the cooking. With things like burgers I use cajin spice.
Use olive oil, garlic powder, pepper. Put the salt on near the end of the cooking. With things like burgers I use cajin spice.
No, no, no, no.
All that stuff is good but if you have to rely on seasoning then you're buying some low quality food. Salt is the only seasoning that most of those foods need.
I'm faxt, anything other than salt on chuck steak is taking away from the natural flavors, which salt helps release.
Usually use Adobo on most meats.
When cooking for my mom I'll use:
Ms Dash
Pepper
Garlic powder
Paparika
When cooking for my mom I'll use:
Ms Dash
Pepper
Garlic powder
Paparika
Salt only is boring food. Seasoning brings variety and it complements & enhances different dishes to be better than the basic ingredients alone would be.
Of course seasoning isn't needed ALL of the time but you have to be a particularly boring chef if you mostly only use salt (and pepper). There is a world of flavors out there and limiting yourself to salt is just limiting all kinds of awesome food experiences one could have.
Bland food is the absolute worst and the older I'm getting the less tolerant I am about eating anything that isn't seasoned properly.
if i ever see you in my kitchen you will be arrested.
"all the seasonings we need we get from the seawater, whee!"
What if I like my food unseasoned, OP? WHAT THEN?
I don't trust myself with seasoning, nor do I enjoy wasting time adding seasoning to perfectly edible food.
So either I'm served food that's already been seasoned by someone who know what they're doing, or I'll have my food as it is. Raw, unseasoned salad. Unseasoned chicken. Whatever. Food does have a taste even when unseasoned.
I don't trust myself with seasoning, nor do I enjoy wasting time adding seasoning to perfectly edible food.
So either I'm served food that's already been seasoned by someone who know what they're doing, or I'll have my food as it is. Raw, unseasoned salad. Unseasoned chicken. Whatever. Food does have a taste even when unseasoned.
Can i get a hell yeah.
Braggs Liquid Aminos.
Or you can use something like powder chicken stock or soy sauce to add saltiness without straight up using salt.
will grab some. thanks.This right here.
Good even on a finished steak...
Sounds to me like you have gradually weakened your taste buds over a long period of time, which means anything that isn't covered in seasoning now tastes bland to you. The people who enjoy unseasoned food likely haven't damaged their taste buds, in comparison. For health reasons (blood pressure, for the most part), you might want to consider gradually reducing the amount of salt you use on your food until you get used to normal levels again. It might take a while.
This isn't unique to taste. Take bass levels in music, for example. People who always turn up the bass in music struggle to enjoy music with regular audio balance and have to gradually get used to it again.
Of course other seasonings have there place, but you don't have to put something other then salt in your food. Salt is the only essential seasoning, and should be treated like the base seasoning it is. Everything else is secondary, and should be treated like additional ingredients.
Please, please, please use whole black pepper and grind instead of that preground stuff. And remember to change it every once in a while.
You lose so much flavor with the powder. It's almost a crime.
You lose so much flavor with the powder. It's almost a crime.
We really have people in here acting like seasoning is a bad thing. I always think I've seen it all on this forum, then threads like this make me realize this is a vast world and I've barely scratched the surface
Literally nothing wrong with salt and/or pepper.
Some people here probably go overboard with their premade popcorn seasoning-tier additions though.
Yeah, I have very simple taste and I'm a bad cook but to actively fight against seasoning is bizarre
I've recently been throwing either soy sauce or paprika and garlic on everything.
Everything cooked in my household is seasoned though. Salt, turmeric, and cumin is like the bare minimum for any meats.
Everything cooked in my household is seasoned though. Salt, turmeric, and cumin is like the bare minimum for any meats.
Yah you'll see it all on ERA and previously that other place we don't talk about. Columbus and the boys literally set sail looking for spices and ended up colonizing the new world, they knew what was up.
nobody is coming for them on their bland, tasteless, unseasoned hills.
It isn't bad per se, but it is a half measure, kinda like using Pinchos seasoning
Adobo is for of marinating, at least here in spain, and the result is delicious but using a mix of spices that maybe fakes the taste is not good enough
You should try many more mixes, even done by yourself. I love mixing garlick, chilli (not powder, chopped), black pepper and oregano, now, the downside is that until you get used you're going to be shitting fire for a while.
This topic is reminding me why I hate work pot lucks. So many people proud of unseasoned food my gawd. I would throw that shit right in the trash where it belongs. There is a reason why spices were so valuable back in the day and now we have regressed to people proudly skipping herbs and spices on their food.
For me it depends on the food and its freshness.
I generally like the taste the essence of foods and usually only add at most a little bit of salt to it.
Like a good steak or really freshly made chicken, too much seasoning overpowers the subtle flavors of the meat and quite frankly a waste in my opinion.
One of the cuisines that I rarely use fresh meat for is Indian due to the prominence of spices. I usually just buy frozen or meats on reduced sale when making a curry.
I generally like the taste the essence of foods and usually only add at most a little bit of salt to it.
Like a good steak or really freshly made chicken, too much seasoning overpowers the subtle flavors of the meat and quite frankly a waste in my opinion.
One of the cuisines that I rarely use fresh meat for is Indian due to the prominence of spices. I usually just buy frozen or meats on reduced sale when making a curry.