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Myths about Cooking with Salt

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> Salt isn’t important in baking.

Anyone who believes that has never had Tuscan bread, which has zero salt. https://www.theflorentine.net/2018/09/14/tuscan-bread-backst... Locals in Tuscany insist you don't need salt in the bread because it's eaten with other salty foods. But it's remarkably bland and bad tasting. And rightly mocked in other parts of Italy who have much better bread.

https://archive.is/bSO44

Samin Nosrat's "Salt Fat Acid Heat" [0] really helped me understand cooking with salt (and balancing it with fats and acids). Also this LifeHacker article [1]!

[0] https://www.saltfatacidheat.com/ [1] https://lifehacker.com/season-your-chicken-even-more-you-cow...

My uncle eats ZERO salt. I think it's cool if he manages to do that, but for me that is unachievable.

Sodium is required for normal muscle function, so zero salt can’t be good.

<https://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/salt>

I stopped adding salt in my cooking when I had to cook for a young baby. Pleasantly surprised to find I didn't miss it much, and pretty soon my tastebuds reset and when I eat out everything tastes wayyy too salty.

Same here.

A can of peas already has half the required daily intake and in terms of salt content it's on the low side.

I also crave meat much less now - apparently it was about the salt all this time.

I hope he consumes very large amounts of milk, beets, carrots etc. which have some sodium in them. Or at least some processed foods...

> I think it's cool

Maybe, but it's definitely not the brightest idea one can come up with.

I almost never add salt to most things I cook, and with the amount of salt in frozen pizzas, bread, and whatnot it's basically fine. The lack of added iodine might actually be the biggest issue.

What is the point of that? Sodium is vital for your body so he is just risking hyponatremia for no good reason. Plus the body is really good at getting rid of excess sodium.

I started using "low sodium" salt, which basically is Sodium + Potasium, which both are electrolytes needed for the body. I grew up eating without salt (mom cooked with no salt at all) and using this low-Na-salt was amazing .

I know the parent said zero salt but ... that's hard to believe. In the modern world if you just breath you get salt in your diet. I bet if you try with all your might to get zero you probably up at the RDA.

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