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Currently Playing: I wish I could force people to learn this.

I wish I could force everyone to do this salt experiment at least once...here's why: When you’re learning almost any other skill you usually have some kind of reference point. A weight. A time. A distance. Something you can measure, repeat, and adjust. But when people learn to season food, we basically tell them: “Just add salt until it tastes right.” Which is a problem because everyone has a slightly different perception of taste, so this is what I recommend: Grab a cheap kitchen scale, make a few portions of the same food, and salt each one at a different percentage by weight then taste them side by side. Now you actually have a reference point for what 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, etc. salt tastes like. You don’t need to weigh your salt forever. The point is to calibrate your taste so you DON’T need the scale.