Salting your food

I need to actually salt and pepper my food myself, I could care less if it tastes perfect, in fact I rarely taste it prior to seasoning it. After my seasoning it I taste and frequently add more salt and pepper, habit I can't break, nor do I want to, salt freak here...how about you?

I see high blood pressure has not grabbed you yet.

I put pepper on everything but I'm not so fond of salt, the only thing I ever put that on is fries!

I put ketchup on fries.

NYPIzzaNut


I see high blood pressure has not grabbed you yet.

I'm lucky in that regard as well, since I enjoy foods from cultures where salt and salty ingredients are used (Chinese, Thai, Italian).  

Thanks goodness using salt doesn't cause high blood pressure and hasn't been verified as being bad for you.

My family jokes about my salt use-they accuse me of having a salt-lick( for the deer) in my living room.Tommyeats is correct;while I do have high blood pressure, it has nothing to do with salt intake.The only side affect I see is puffy fingers after eating Chinese food-and adding tons of soy sauce.

chewingthefat


I need to actually salt and pepper my food myself, I could care less if it tastes perfect, in fact I rarely taste it prior to seasoning it. After my seasoning it I taste and frequently add more salt and pepper, habit I can't break, nor do I want to, salt freak here...how about you?

There was a time when I salted everyting without even bothering to taste it first. Usually, after tasting I'd add more salt. Then my wife was diagnosed with hypertension and had to cut out salt. I learned to cook with no or very, very low amounts of salt, and to use other means to bring out the flavors the way salt does.
 
Now, I do cook with salt, but I hardly ever add any to my cooked food. And I find so many dishes in restaurants too salty for me -- something I could never have imagined in my salty days.

Most restaurant food will kill you if you eat it continuously.

tommyeats

NYPIzzaNut


I see high blood pressure has not grabbed you yet.

I'm lucky in that regard as well, since I enjoy foods from cultures where salt and salty ingredients are used (Chinese, Thai, Italian).  

Thanks goodness using salt doesn't cause high blood pressure and hasn't been verified as being bad for you.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp/prevent/h_eating/h_eating.htm

I use hot sauce instead of salt. For expample...try putting hot sauce on you eggs instead of salt. The hot sauce I use has very little soduim and it adds way more flavor than salt.

I use Thai hot chili sauce on my eggs sometimes - what flavor!  And very little sodium.

NYPIzzaNut

tommyeats

NYPIzzaNut


I see high blood pressure has not grabbed you yet.

I'm lucky in that regard as well, since I enjoy foods from cultures where salt and salty ingredients are used (Chinese, Thai, Italian).  

Thanks goodness using salt doesn't cause high blood pressure and hasn't been verified as being bad for you.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp/prevent/h_eating/h_eating.htm

i will assume that you think that link has some sort of valid study, and that study says that a high sodium sodium diet causes something bad.  neither is the case.

I will always add pepper to my food before tasting it.  Not so with salt.  I also use a fair amount of hot sauce.

tommyeats

NYPIzzaNut

tommyeats

NYPIzzaNut


I see high blood pressure has not grabbed you yet.

I'm lucky in that regard as well, since I enjoy foods from cultures where salt and salty ingredients are used (Chinese, Thai, Italian).  

Thanks goodness using salt doesn't cause high blood pressure and hasn't been verified as being bad for you.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp/prevent/h_eating/h_eating.htm

i will assume that you think that link has some sort of valid study, and that study says that a high sodium sodium diet causes something bad.  neither is the case.

No, it really has been verified. My doctor has been telling me to stay away from salt since I was 17. It's cheap & makes everything taste better & it's good for the salt industry if we use it. Hey, you don't work for them, do you?

Although I guess you do have a valid point. If you are not already predisposed to having HBP, eating tons of salt might not cause HBP, per se. But it's not great for you & HBP is the silent killer because lots of people don't even know they have it.

Annie, it's the MSG in the Chinese food that's doing that to your fingers. Next time you order, ask to have your food prepared without it. As for the soy sauce, they do make a reduced sodium, but it's still really horrible no matter how you sprinkle it.

My mother took the salt shaker off the table for me back in HS. My stepdad salted w/o tasting when he first started eating with us. Now he's the one who will declare something to be too salty.

I only keep the Himalayan pink salt in the house. It's supposedly got no iodine. I don't know about that. I use it very sparingly as a little goes a long way. I mostly use it for salting pasta water & in recipes that just don't taste right without it. (My grandmother's spaghetti sauce)

I miss things like putting it on leftover Thanksgiving turkey, sliced avocado or cucumber, popcorn, etc. But at this point in the game it's no longer a choice, just a way of life.

Way back when (in college) I took a human anatomy course and they did a test of everyone in the class to determine whose taste buds could detect the smallest concentration of salt, sugar, bitter, etc.  I could detect a smaller concentration of salt than anyone else in the class.. As a result I salt nothing, since for me the salt in butter or margarine used for cooking is enough to give my food a salty taste.  (The down side is I cannot enjoy some prepared foods, like most potato chips, which taste horribly salty to me.) 
 
By the way, my blood pressure is enough on the low side that I have to warn any nurse about it before they take a reading, so they don't panic.

stricken_detective

tommyeats

NYPIzzaNut

tommyeats

NYPIzzaNut


I see high blood pressure has not grabbed you yet.

I'm lucky in that regard as well, since I enjoy foods from cultures where salt and salty ingredients are used (Chinese, Thai, Italian).  

Thanks goodness using salt doesn't cause high blood pressure and hasn't been verified as being bad for you.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp/prevent/h_eating/h_eating.htm

i will assume that you think that link has some sort of valid study, and that study says that a high sodium sodium diet causes something bad.  neither is the case.

No, it really has been verified.

no, it really has not.  please point to a definitive study suggesting that high sodium diets cause any health issues.

I am a salt aholic (blood pressure runs low, for now!). I put salt on everything, but one thing I cannot stand, is when salt is used in baking, such as cookies, etc. Most recipes call for salt, but IMO, salt in cookies is NOT needed, and is NOT appealing! A girl at work always bakes cookies and brings them to work, and I want so bad to tell her to leave out the salt......Uhhhh!!

My dad died when I was 7 from kidney failure  caused by chronic hypertension, so I had "DO NOT EAT SALT" drummed into my head by my Grandma while I was growing up. So I only use salt in cooking and never add it to cooked food. I don't miss it at all - I use pepper and hot sauce.

BTW - not eating salt is no assurace that you'll remain healthy - I was on dialysis for a year and a half, and had a kidney transplant 4 years ago.

Reducing sodium in combination with the DASH diet  is well documented  and WILL reduce your blood pressure.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/new/press/01-01-03.htm
 
 
Low fat cottage cheese or low fat yogurt or low fat milk
Have at least 2 servings a day.

fabulousoyster


Reducing sodium in combination with the DASH diet  is well documented  and WILL reduce your blood pressure.

i don't think anyone would debate that.

My boyfriend automatically grabs for the salt shaker, no matter what. My ex-boyfriend did, too, and he ended up in the hospital getting all the excess fluid drained out!!! So i think of this when my skinny boyfriend grabs for the salt shaker. But he gives me the same blank look Bill did when i say, "I put salt in this!" or "I'm sure they put plenty of salt in this already". This doesn't make me a nag; it makes me concerned. Brian's dad died of a heart attack in front of him, and his mom's on like 8 heart-and-other meds. I'm so worried; he's so young and I don't want to lose him. My dad was real bad with the salt like that, as well, and I remember my mom and him arguing about that in the kitchen! Always!
 
What am I supposed to do? I've always used that "Lite" salt. And Brian's so fast with that shaker that it's already on the food before I can say anything...

Once when I was single I was eating lunch by myself in a busy cafe.  An attractive woman about my age asked if she could share my table.  I thought I was getting lucky.  The first thing she did was just cover all of her food with a layer of salt without tasting first.  What a turn-off.

plb


Once when I was single I was eating lunch by myself in a busy cafe.  An attractive woman about my age asked if she could share my table.  I thought I was getting lucky.  The first thing she did was just cover all of her food with a layer of salt without tasting first.  What a turn-off.

Smokers turn me off.

The Sig and I watched Top Chef and head judge Tom Colicchio criticized several contestants for not using enough salt!  Excuse me,  I can add salt if I need it, but I can not remove it if there is too much.  Sorry Mr.Colicchio, I figure you over salt your dishes to improve sales and who can blame you for that.  That is the same reasons portion sizes soared. Maybe Bravo should get a little health conscious.

Low Fat Cottage Cheese has over 900mg of sodium per serving.  I have no idea why the Dash diet includes it as an option.

Im another one who is in luck by not having a taste for salt.  Due to my heart condition salt is as deadly to me as sugar to a diabetic.  Evenin my younger days I rarely added additional salt to my food.  The taste of excessive salt really makes me gag.
I have known a number of people that liberaly coat the surface of their entire plate with salt before even tasting it.  Some people just love salt.

tommyeats

stricken_detective

tommyeats

NYPIzzaNut

tommyeats

NYPIzzaNut


I see high blood pressure has not grabbed you yet.

I'm lucky in that regard as well, since I enjoy foods from cultures where salt and salty ingredients are used (Chinese, Thai, Italian).  

Thanks goodness using salt doesn't cause high blood pressure and hasn't been verified as being bad for you.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp/prevent/h_eating/h_eating.htm

i will assume that you think that link has some sort of valid study, and that study says that a high sodium sodium diet causes something bad.  neither is the case.

No, it really has been verified.

no, it really has not.  please point to a definitive study suggesting that high sodium diets cause any health issues.

Please read the second paragraph of my post. And thanks for playing.

sop that


The Sig and I watched Top Chef and head judge Tom Colicchio criticized several contestants for not using enough salt!  Excuse me,  I can add salt if I need it, but I can not remove it if there is too much.  Sorry Mr.Colicchio, I figure you over salt your dishes to improve sales and who can blame you for that.  That is the same reasons portion sizes soared. Maybe Bravo should get a little health conscious.

Yeah, that will happen.
 
Maybe he can salt down Padma before she licks the salty Hardee's sauce off herself.

plb


Once when I was single I was eating lunch by myself in a busy cafe.  An attractive woman about my age asked if she could share my table.  I thought I was getting lucky.  The first thing she did was just cover all of her food with a layer of salt without tasting first.  What a turn-off.

 
I would have overlooked  this!

harriet1954


 
What am I supposed to do? I've always used that "Lite" salt. And Brian's so fast with that shaker that it's already on the food before I can say anything...

How about removing the salt from the table?