If you need to add salt to a meal do you think the chef isn’t very good?
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I just had too meals in a row at restaurants that were loaded with so much salt I was afraid to finish it let alone that it was too salty for my taste. I’m not a no salt person, these were truly excessive in my opinion.
It started me thinking, I haven’t needed to add salt to a restaurant meal in forever. What’s the harm in a little less salt while cooking and people who want a little more salt can add it at the table?
I have the same complaint about vegetables soaked in butter. Yesterday my green beans still had garlic butter unmelted on part of the beans. Forget that I don’t like garlic, just seeing that annoys me. I don’t mind some fat to sauté the beans, but adding a hunk of butter after cooking is unnecessary.
I feel like the only safe thing is a salad with dressing on the side, but I don’t usually go out to eat for a salad.
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If I don’t like the way a restaurant prepares the food, I don’t go back. If, for some reason, I am going back, I find a dish or two that I can tolerate, and I have never not be been able to do that.
To answer your bold-in-red Q, no, I don’t think the chef is sub par, tastes differ dramatically.
No. First off, I don’t eat at many restaurants that have “chefs”. They have cooks. But my view of eating out, especially at a restaurant I’m not familiar with, is to find something on the menu that looks good and have it just as they prepare it. I want to see what they think is good food. It might end up having too much salt or some spice I don’t care for. But I want to try their food, their way before I make decisions. If I got a meal that was so loaded with salt I couldn’t eat it, I’d likely just leave that as a comment when the wait staff asks me how everything was. If it was not salty enough when I got the food, I could easily add a little to better match my taste.
Less is more, especially when it’s something you can add back in. I’ve also learned from various books about cooking that when you salt and what kind of salt you use matters. Depending on the restaurant, these things might not always be taken into account.
If that is the only thing wrong with the food, then no.
One of the core reasons why I don’t go to restaurants that often is that I can make a far better meal myself.
When I travel and have to eat out, it is typically not a great experience.
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