A cooking question.

Why must you add salt when making cookies? Cookies are sweet not salty. Anyone?

 

http://www.foodsubs.com/Salt.html


You turning into MG's Emeril?

 

BAM!

hahahahah no. I was just talking to my mom and she was wondering about it. I told her I'd ask the Geeks because they know everything. She's making cookies and the thought just popped into her head.

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

Salt, as Star says, is a flavor enhancer, but it isn't essential. We actually become "addicted" to the taste with salt. If you completely stop salt in sweet and savoury food everything takes terrible. But after a week or so you start to notice the more subtle natural flavors of the food, especially veggies.

We have become a society more and more dependent on salt for flavoring - every convenience and packet food has a ton of it in. We do need salt, but not half as much as we actually intake.

 

That's so true, Lev. I had McDonalds fries for the first time in over a year recently and I couldn't beleive how salty they were. It was gross.

 

i like to add salt in layers. i use rock salt, and hawaiian red rock salt, and grind it like pepper.. i also use soy sauce or braggs amino acids. i feel that the 'trick' is to eat anything as long as its not in a box.

 

You can really skip the salt in cookies...there really is not that much there and you will most likely never notice...

We do as people eat way to much salt. My wife can't have that much salt because of some reasons...so we cut out a lot of the salt out of our diet and in the long run we don't really miss it.

Also look at some of the labels on the side of packages you will be amazed what you really intake in a day....way more than what is needed.

 

Star, we should swap titles. You're the man with the info lately.

 

I'm looking forward to the time that salt causes cancer.

Why do I say this (post this) ?

Smoking cigs, can also deplete the sense on how food taste. Salt is the same way.

Also, I want to add, cheese is included within this, and butter. I have to have my cheese, butter, and salt. Afterwords, my ciggy. I shall die young :-|~

 

Oatmeal is another that adds salt??? Salt actually makes things taste like...salt, if you put enough in. If you don't put enough in to taste it, then why put it in at all?

 

Salt can do unexpected things to flavours. Like making tonic water (usually bitter) taste sweet.

Actually, a lot of people, especially in warmer climates don't get enough salt, leading to anything from muscular cramps to even heart attacks. Salt is essential in numerous bodily functions, and especially in muscular and nerve activity. Consuming iodized salt is also important in order for us to get sufficient iodine intake. An element which most of us consume in insufficient quantities.

The problem is, most of the salt we buy has a lot more than just sodium chloride (salt) in it. It those additives again, like sugar and so much other over-processed goods. Salt also stimulates appetite (and thirst!).

http://altmedangel.com/salt.htm


http://www.rxpgnews.com/medicalnews/healthcare/india/article_2694.shtml

 

i so agree. ive started this 'eat real' 'diet', and have been seriously looking not so much at what i eat and drink, as what i eat and drink is made of. so buy sea salt. put it in a pepper grinder. you will use LESS. feels good to have fresh ground salt and pepper too. sort of 'grand' if you see what i mean.
i am looking for a 'proper' salt grinder. (the salt rusts the grinding mech in the pepper grinders)

i am systematically replacing one type of 'thing' with another. i have started with sugar and salt.

i don't believe keeping 'healthy' should be hard work. i believe that butter HAS TO BE better than the chemical composite that is its alternative.
i wish i could drink real milk, and eat real butter and real cream, but that it not so easy. the best i can do is buy milk and dairy products that haven't been saturated in growth hormones and other 'additives'.
cheese, sour cream, yogurt, are the same. what i have noticed is that although it is more expensive to buy alta dena or cracker barrel, it tastes sooooo much better. food should be savored.

 

After reading that article, there is not reason to use a salt grinder. Salt grinders don’t help make it fresher, if you need it, with smaller grains, buy it that way. We have both kinds here, I can’t tell the difference. I live about 40 miles away from where they harvest the salt, with their salt ponds. I haven’t googled it yet, but what could be the difference, don’t they both come from salt water?……wobbles

 

I have a salt grinder not because I think it makes the salt fresher (it doesn't), but because I can't find it in small enough grains. I don't want huge chunks of salt on anything other than pretzels. I've found I'm using about 1/4 as much salt as I used to when I was using iodized table salt, because the flavour is better using sea salt.

 

No way I could replace the master

 

There is a BIG difference between mineral salt (mined from the ground), and sea salt. Reason:- Sea salt contains many obscure natural additives, the most obvious of which is iodine that are beneficial to the human body.

Normal, mined salt usually contains bleaching agents, anti-caking agents, etc.

I do prefer the flavour of sea salt, actually. There is a taste difference, i.m.o., at least to my palate.