A line cook in Portland once told me 'salt is a feeling, not a measurement'

We were prepping for a huge wedding party, and I was seasoning a vat of soup to the exact gram like I was taught. He just walked over, dipped a spoon in, and said that. He didn't even look at the recipe. It made me stop thinking of the kitchen as a lab and start trusting my own taste. Anyone else have a simple piece of advice that flipped a switch for them?

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perry.skyler17d ago

Salt is a feeling" is a great line until you ask that guy why the fries taste like the ocean... some feelings are wrong, man.

nora_park7216d ago

But is it really that big of a deal?