S and P or not

Not at all rude to the cook. We all gave different tastebuds and I'm sure any cook (worth her salt!!) simply wants people to enjoy what they're eating. Let's face it, a lot of consumers may have actually spoiled it for themselves by not tasting first.

I couldn’t eat tomatoes or chips without salt. I do use a salt and pepper grinder at mealtime because I know our veg won’t have been seasoned as they are always cooked in a steamer. When eating out I always rely on the restaurant to get the seasoning right so happy not to see it on the table.

Always taste first and in reality rarely add salt. Sometimes a but of pepper. Always remember how Joan Collins asked for salt and pepper in a Gordon Ramsay restaurant and he told her to leave. Considered it an insult to his cooking!

We don’t add salt when cooking but I add Himalayan pink salt afterwards - it has cured my leg cramps. Also I have been told it is not good to have too little salt if you have low blood pressure.

I actually don't add salt or pepper to cooking unless it's in the recipe and we all season afterwards depending on taste... I think this comes from many years of cooking for children

kjmpde

i think you must be from north of B'ham? i say that as i understand that it is considered rude up North but not so when below Brum

Never heard that

Why does the salt cellar have one hole and the pepper pot have several holes?
Will post answer later.

i think you must be from north of B'ham? i say that as i understand that it is considered rude up North but not so when below Brum

I never use salt in cooking, except when making bread in my bread maker, as I’m told it’s needed to make it rise.

My Dh sometimes uses Losalt on his food but I only have salt on boiled eggs. I did accidentally put salt on scrambled eggs the other day, as I hadn’t noticed I’d picked up the salt grinder instead of the pepper grinder. I always put both on the table even though they don’t get used very often.

When my Dh was in his 30’s he put on a fair bit of weight at one time. He read that reducing salt intake could help so he did just that. The weight fell off him, about two stone in all, and he’s never been that heavy again. I wish it worked for me.

We never took salt tablets living in the tropics but I’d make my own rehydration mix if we felt a bit dehydrated. It’s a mix of salt and sugar dissolved in water.

Well there you go. I season food as I cook it. The only thing I ever add salt to afterwards would be poached eggs.

I think my mum decided whether we were allowed salt (but not pepper) on our dinners.

grandtanteJE65 I’m also a 50’s child and don’t remember being told pepper was bad for children. It was always on the table along with the salt. But I agree, it seemed to be just the adults who used it. The children did have free access to the salt shaker in those days though!
My GC aren’t allowed salt but they do love black pepper and grind it on their pasta, potatoes, soup etc

I don’t salt vegetables so I leave salt and pepper on the table.
We are having Wiltshire food during lockdown as shopping on line was hopeless. Bit better now. But apart from curries etc.they do not season the food so that’s one of the reasons we are seasoning our food. I decided not to put salt in any veg
when I cook it’s much healthier.

I'm afraid I'd probably do it all the more if I could sense the disapproval.

@JackyB, your pp about salt tablets really resonated with me.
When we lived in the Middle East, everyone took salt tablets during the very hot, and especially the incredibly humid months. Anyone who was out of doors much really did need them - the company supplied dispensers to all the families.

Many years later were were on holiday in the Darwin area (Oz) during an extremely humid season. We were repeatedly advised to drink loads of water - nobody mentioned salt - but on a very sweaty largely walking tour of Kakadu (I was virtually wringing my hair out every 10 minutes) I started to feel terribly limp and exhausted and suddenly remembered the salt tablets.

At lunch (buffalo pie or quiche with chips!) I put plenty of salt on my chips and felt so much better very quickly.

Salt has turned into a dirty word, but in such circs as above I’m surprised nobody mentioned it.

Wish I knew how to train my husband. He’s definitely a “salt on without tasting “ person. Doesn’t matter what I say , now after 50 years then I fear it’s too late!

It was a source of much gnashing of teeth at one of my workplaces.

We ate with the men who lived in the home, and the same as them, so we all sat down together to eat.

When someone (female staff member, usually) had cooked a big roast for us all, some staff (usually male) would squirt a load of ketchup over it, which then made all the man want some.

When DD was little she had horrible cramps in her legs and feet almost everyday. She has really low sodium levels, I, although now a chef have never used much salt so she got used to salting her food herself.
She has been almost verbally abused for putting salt on food.
She takes salt tablets even now at 35 but her levels are often very low.
My bugbear is Ketchup, a friend had a flatmate who ate nothing without it. Macaroni Cheese covered in it is nauseating.

Love salty food. Marmite being one...could live on Marmite on toast. However, my DH ....we been married 46 years was surprised today after offering me the salt to put on my salad lunch and I refused. Never have salt on salad or cooked veg other than potatoes and also meat/fish. Plus I never add salt to cooking. Like pepper to.

A word of caution. My DH had/has High Blood Pressure while mine is low. I tended to cook everything, even soup and potatoes without salt and soon got used to it. Then my GP remarked that my blood pressure was really low, even lower than was normal for me and I'd had a few dizzy spells. Being also DH's GP she had a lightbulb moment and asked if I had also cut back on salt - which I had. I was given strict orders to salt my own food at the table and eat the occasional packet of salted crisps or nuts. No more dizzy spells.

My DH adds salt and pepper before tasting and it drives me nuts.

One day, I’m very tempted to highly salt something for him and then see the result! I’d better not though as he has high blood pressure but it’s so tempting!

Some people say that salt added during cooking tastes different than when it's added after.

I’m the only cook in my house.... so food is cooked to my taste! I put salt/pepper on table.... my husband is the only one to put salt on without tasting first...but then his mum boiled everything to pulp!

My ex Always covers his food with pepper and the more I Used to say anything about it the more he put on, it always made me and the kids sneeze.

I saw a man pick up the salt grinder in a cafe and shake it vigorously over his plate. Then, satisfied I assume, he carried on eating.