Timeline for How much potato to add to reduce saltiness
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| Jan 24, 2022 at 22:25 | comment | added | nick012000 | "If you boil potatoes & eat them with no salt, they just taste like nothing." Nah, they've got a distinct earthy-sweet taste, from my experienceof eating microwaved potatoes. They are pretty bland, but to say they have no flavour is a bit of an exaggeration. | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 23:42 | comment | added | Marti | +1 for mentioning that potatoes are not all that special - basically anything that doesn't already contain salt and "goes with" the food being cooked would work. All you're doing is diluting the salt: if that much salt is too much for that much food, add more food until the salt isn't too much. You could technically add more meat instead, but (1) meat is more expensive, and (2) half-cooked meat + raw meat + more cooking = unevenly-cooked meat. | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 15:22 | history | edited | AMtwo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 21, 2022 at 15:14 | comment | added | AMtwo | @J... Good point. I was focusing on the mathiness of it all, and left off a mention of realistic range for that ratio. I made an edit to clarify. | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 15:14 | history | edited | AMtwo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 21, 2022 at 13:26 | comment | added | J... | " If you would use 1 teaspoon of salt on 1 potato, then you need 1 potato to try to "fix" your "1 teaspoon too salty" curry." Just to add some sane numbers, a teaspoon of salt is enough to salt a 5lb bag of potatoes. | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 10:23 | comment | added | Honza Zidek | I generally like your answer. However, I am not sure about the meaning of "amount of salt needed to cook 1 potato". I think the amount of salt rather depends on the amount of water I cook the potatoes in. The potatoes do not absorb all the salt from the surrounding water, but rather what matters is the salinity gradient (between water and potato). Actually I cook potatoes exclusively in a pressure pot with 0.15 litre of water and apart from saving energy and time I can also use significantly less salt compared to the classic cooking with all the potatoes fully submerged in water. | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 1:50 | comment | added | Tony Ennis | On the other hand, even if it doesn't work, you still have yummy potatoes! | |
| Jan 20, 2022 at 16:13 | vote | accept | Nav | ||
| Jan 20, 2022 at 16:05 | history | answered | AMtwo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |