/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15293270
I grew up in a house that litchrally didn't have salt. I had no idea the pure magic of salting food until I was an adult. And ho-lee-fuk. Especially because I'm a heavy drinker (I blame my sodium-deprived upbringing and associated PTSD for this), and overly salted soup or pasta is truly the cure in the morning

>>15293274
I had a salt and peppered leftover turkey sandwich, cured my hangover in like a minute

>>15293282
I salt my cream of wheat/semolina now and it's an entirely different food and actually has the power to start your day properly. I never knew when I was a kid and mushing down that bitter bullshit. Fuck my parents for not allowing salt

So they found a cure for autism op?

>>15293274
>>15293282
How does something that dehydrates help a hangover?

>>15293301
cuz it tastes so good that i forget the discomfort of the hangover

>>15293301
when you drink you piss out all your minerals and electrolytes, primarily sodium. that's why it's so hard to get back on your feet in the morning, water doesn't sit well and it's nearly impossible to re-hydrate because you can't absorb water without sufficient salt in your body. once you get your salts replenished liquids go right down and and get right into your blood where they belong.

this is why athletes sweating in training all day need to take salt tablets (typically sodium and potassium, sometimes with calcium and magnesium), so they can actually retain the water they drink. when you're depleted of electrolytes you can force feed yourself water but you end up pissing clear piss and you're still not hydrating

>>15293270
Adulthood is learning to cook properly so you don't have to dump salt on everything after the fact

>>15293295
Can confirm, the little bit of salt makes all the difference. They probably just never had it made that way either. If you like the 'wheat you should check out upma, it's like a whole meal featuring cream of wheat, so good.

>>15293313
wow, never knew that. I generally make a fruit smoothie and nurse it all day trying to work up an appetite

>>15293295
forgot recipe-
https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/upma-recipe-how-to-make-upma/

>>15293410
sweet anon, thanks for that! I have like a 1kg bag of coarse semolina (basically cream of wheat) and i don't know what to do with all of it. might give this a try

salt is love, salt is life

>>15293270
>Childhood is never putting any salt or pepper on your food

Bro.
What kind of childhood was that?

I'm sorry your parents didn't know how to cook.

no matter how much water I drink i'm dehydrated when i wake up. am i not eating enough salt?

>>15294013
possibly. you could also be pre-diabetic so be careful how you approach this anon