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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you can smell the salt, you might be using too much.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why does it taste good starter pack.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Salt, sugar, fat, acid

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  • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It makes the onions fry quicker in oil!

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    • BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cause it draws out the moisture

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    • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oops I had been adding sugar.

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly, salt is my secret ingredient. Way more than anyone else is brave enough to put in, but it makes things delicious.

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I only use the LD50 but that's mostly to stop people from getting seconds.

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Who needs to functional kidneys anyway

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    • Toes@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I started cooking for elderly people and I’m not allowed to use salt at all. But I’ll see them dumping salt on it at the table.

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    • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Growing up my mom would tend to oversalt the food she cooked, which lead to me thinking most normal food tastes bland without more salt

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is probably a joke, but do try to limit your salt intake to something healthy: www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/…/salt

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    • Bruhh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yup. It’s always what one considers too much plus one more shake to season perfectly…but that still doesn’t stop me from under seasoning when cooking new dishes. Can always salt later.

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• simulacra_procession@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lol my mom used to tell me she’d come home exhausted from work and wouldn’t know what she was going to feed us, so she’d just put some garlic and onions in a pan to fry while she wound down and figure it out as she went. She said the smell at least made it seem like she had it all figured out, to us anyway

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  • EpicMuch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My mom, who was a self admitted not-good cook would start these on the stove a bit before dad was set to come home. He’d be hungry but smelled too good and he would finish cooking for us

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s a common joke about that. It goes something like: “A [Ukrainian] starts frying onion and garlic in a pan and only then starts thinking about what they want to make.”

    [Ukrainian] can be substituted for most other countries, to be honest.

    But, to be real, garlic shouldn’t be fried for that long IMO, so I’d only put in the garlic about 30s before I was ready to start adding all the other ingredients. But, with the onions, I’ve actually started onions more than 30 minutes before figuring out what else I wanted to make. That way they have a chance to get good and caramelized. That doesn’t work for every recipe, but it works for a lot of them.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How do you prepare the garlic? Cut or pressed or just sliced?

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A better combination is onions, carrots and celery

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  • DeadPixel@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You forgot the garlic

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry … garlic is almost automatic for me at this point when I cook, it’s almost like salt and pepper … I never think of it.

      And I’m at the point where I buy about 20lbs of garlic from my local farmer every fall (I just bought my supply a couple of weeks ago) to last me the winter.

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You mean a mirepoix?

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You mean soffritto?

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or onions, green peppers, and celery. I guarantee.

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• chemicalprophet@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I read somewhere that if you’re cooking dinner and shit falls behind just start sautéing some onion and it will smell so good people will happily wait and be ready to eat when you are ready to serve, 15-30 minutes.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s pretty fair. I generally get a pack of dinner rolls, parker-house or whatever cook them ahead and let them rest under a tea towel.

    An appetiser is the ultimate time saver, because someone ALWAYS shows up starving.

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    • MathiasTCK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Me, I’m that someone. Got any rolls?

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• bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not enough garlic in that picture

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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    • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The bummer is that garlic that big tends to be less potent. I think that’s elephant garlic? Bought it once, was very disappointed.

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  • doctordevice@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Always at least double the garlic called for.

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    • somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just put some in at the end of cooking if you like garlic, no need to waste it.

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• Seasm0ke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My dad hated onions, he’d pick them out of his meals like a 5 year old. One day after I found a love for cooking in highschool this happened and he decided to try my dishes. He was very proud that he only picked out 3 onion pieces and kept the rest lol.

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly I don’t like onion pieces either, but I find that if I chop them small enough I don’t mind it.

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    • And009@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As a kid I used to tell anyone cooking for me, make sure onions are either indistinguishable or large enough to separate easily.

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  • Szyler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I do that because of the consistency difference between the huge pieces of crunchy onion and the smooth meat and mushy rice. If the onion is caramelised or cut to a mush, or onion powder I don’t mind it.

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• takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Salt doesn’t smell.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is that because it doesn’t have a nose?

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My dog has no nose.

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  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not with that attitude

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  • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yours maybe.

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  • CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wjy do they call smelling salts?

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    • Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Some salts smell. Table salt (what’s pictured in the meme) doesn’t have a detectable smell in solid form, not enough vaporizes to notice. Smelling salts are ammonium carbonate, not sodium chloride like table salt, and they do smell strongly. “Salt” can refer to either table salt or to any ionic compound whatsoever. The latter is chemistry jargon, but then gets used in colloquial terms like “smelling salts” or “salty licorice” neither of which have table salt but both of which have other ionic compounds.

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• x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Garlic and onion in oil is enough to trigger my hay-fever and irritate my nose so that shit doesn’t actually smell good to me

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  • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A cursed existence

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Skill issue

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• tino@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  shallot, butter, white wine

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• VampirePenguin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Except butter instead of oil

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  • Thatuserguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Coward. I use both. And then salt the fuck out of it. Every meal takes a year off my life, but fuck if I’m not enjoying the ones I’m left with

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    • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      salt the fuck out of it.

      I misread this as ‘fuck the salt out of it’ for just a moment.

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  • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why “instead” ?

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  • nilaus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And bacon instead of salt

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Been trying to figure out how to explain to my little kids that they don’t like the taste of onions, they like the flavor.

  They love McDonald’s cheeseburgers, chips of all sorts, all with onions. They’re small, biting an onion is too much for their taste buds, so they think they hate onions.

  Anyone help me articulate the idea? LOL, it’s funny I think on it so much.

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  • DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For me, I dislike (and as a child, hated) the texture of onions. Onion as a flavour has always been fine, it was biting them that was the problem.

    Caramelize the onions a bit and blend half into a paste, ask which one tastes bad. If they answer that only the chunky onion is bad, teach them about texture preferences.

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  • nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They taste different when cooked.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Caramelize them properly and they go from weird sour but slightly spicy vegetables to straight up candy.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    they don’t like the taste of onions, they like the flavor.

    I don’t think the distinction between “taste” and “flavour” is the right way to frame it. Raw onion on its own can be overwhelming. If you eat a hamburger with raw onion on it, the amount of raw onion per bite will be pretty small, and it will be one taste in a whole bunch of other tastes. Your kids probably wouldn’t like eating pure salt, or pure pepper either. But, food with some salt tastes great.

    Having said that, fried onions are a whole different game. After 5 minutes the onion loses a lot of its potency and gets a bit sweet. After 30 minutes it’s basically a very slightly pungent candy. For a French Onion Soup, you can cook them for up to 2 hours before they’re ready. A pot that’s full to the brim of raw onions reduces down to a thin layer at the bottom, and they taste more like gummy worms than onions at that point.

    Onions raw to fully cooked for a french onion soup.

    I love French Onion Soup, and occasionally make it. I’d make it more, it’s just that slicing up more than a kilogram of onions is a whole process. It’s so difficult it makes me cry every time I do it.

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    • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A second hand mandoline a game changer in that regard! Chopping/slicing/cutting evenly suddenly to a fraction of the time. Would drivel recommend (second hand because first hand are stupidly expensive if you rent good quality)

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eat it or starve.

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  • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t drink ketchup. You don’t eat salt. But if you try unsalted fries without ketchup you’ll understand what salt and ketchup are for.

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  • Brekky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pickled onions… yum!

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• jared@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What about the wonderful stink of cumin?

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just don’t put on deodorant, same thing

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  • BenVimes@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a personal thing, but the smell of cumin kills my appetite. I had a bad experience with it once and I can’t shake the association between the smell and the experience.

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• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There wee several house-party focused cookbooks that suggested to just fry off a pan of decoy onions as your guests enter the house. Doesn't matter if they get used in a dish or not, just cook the onions.

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• Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Should be ginger instead of salt.

  I mean, you need salt. But you don’t smell it.

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• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Idk, sometimes just baked bread and sugar smells really good too.

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  • SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s one of the best smells of ever exist. There was a bakery on the way from my home to school. They usually had a fresh batch when I walked to school in the morning, and boy it made me salivate.

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• moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have seen this picture of an onion before

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• QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  why are people acting so normal, is this not just a loss meme? have I lost it?

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is the contrary to a shitpost IMO!

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