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From: Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 20:13:06 -0500
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On 2/5/2025 5:19 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2025-02-05 5:05 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:
>> On 2/5/2025 4:41 PM, Ed P wrote:
>>> I have a salt grinder with sea salt on the table.  It was broken so I 
>>> bought another and as long as I was ordering, got some Himalayan pink 
>>> salt.  Meantime, I fixed the other grinder.
>>
>> I remember Sheldon asking who on earth would ever need a salt grinder? 
>> Then again, he also claimed he never added salt to anything he cooked, 
>> claiming food should be *salted at the table*.  Nonsense.  You get 
>> none of the nuances of a little salt added during the cooking process. 
>> Properly done, the salt shaker/grinder on the table might just be a 
>> decoration. :)
>>
> 
> Sheldon was wrong about many things. I always vegetables and most other 
> things tastes so much better when cooked with enough salt, and then you 
> don't need to add salt at the table. FWIW, we have a salt grinder filled 
> with coarse salt and I prefer that to fine salt from a shaker. For many 
> years my wife was stingy with the salt in cooking water and I often had 
> to add a little at the table.
> 
> The only thing I am  almost guaranteed to salt is steamed asparagus.
> 
I salt baked potatoes.  And use salt on the baked potato skins rubbed 
with salted butter before baking, then lots of salted butter and salt 
inside.

I rarely salt green vegetables but I do add salt to the cooking water.

Jill