Unseasoned food

Haha I actually really like how it tastes by itself. I hardly season my food. I do sometimes add chilli. Very similar to VB diet yes. Everytging is steamed or grilled.
its delicious to me.
I like sweet potatoe.
im boring...i know hahaha

They're hot pepper based sauces with vinegar and sometimes other spices. Louisiana style uses cayenne. The one I usually buy uses a couple different hot peppers along with vinegar and garlic.

They're great on anything eggy and home fries and pretty much everything. Bean soup a bit bland, dash of hot sauce and squeeze of lime. Scrambled tofu, yes. Migas, yum.

Spices actually are ‘heat’. They may not be to you but to me that’s what they taste like and they overwhelm anything

Hot spices like mustard, ginger, pepper or chillis are "heat".
Other spices like cardamon, cloves, cinnamon, cumin, coriander, turmeric are aromatic, not hot.

The term spicy is synonymous with heat, but there are far more aromatic spices than hot spices.

We don't eat a lot of salt, but we don't eat a completely salt free diet either. That sounds so worthy and joyless.

You've not experienced salt free 'gravy'. With the extra water, it looks like tea made by waving a Basics decaff bag in the general direction of the mug from somewhere down the garden and tastes only marginally better.

Plus unsalted butter being 'too rich', necessitating minimal fat, ultra slimmer margarine/spread. And bread made without salt/breeze block slices. And the skin taken off a piece of salmon because 'it's too fatty' after microwaving it for five minutes to make sure it has the texture of tinned salmon without the fat, salt or taste....

Fair enough - I couldn’t be arsed with putting myself through that!

Curiosity, sensory seeking, a desire to try different world cuisines, wanting to travel, wanting to share food with loved ones, wanting to improve your cooking, and a certain amount of pride in being able to conquer a vindaloo without even flinching!

I am so glad I did it, but I was highly motivated.

The NHS get a lot of things wrong but more than that, the original comment was about whether food was tasting like food or tasting like salt.

People who dont understand how to use seasoning dont understand that salt brings out of the flavour of food

The NHS is not an authority on good flavour.

It's hardly the moral high ground. It's basic NHS advice not to add salt to your food.

I have no idea what a supertaster is but it sounds terrifying!

Also a synonym for spicy is in fact ‘heat’ 😬

Well we'll agree to disagree. Im a supertaster so I can taste the earth, the nuttiness, the brightness and citrus and many other flavours in them, and then the food.

Onions all taste different according to how you cut/slice/grate them and I use those as flavour as well.

Fair enough but not sure how you build something like that. Also not sure why most people would - if it’s really unpleasant then why would you choose to continue? 😬

I think cooking has changed and people are more health conscious. The only time I add salt to my dinner is if I have chips. I only eat chips if I am at the seaside and have fish and chips, so probably 3-4 times a year.

I never put salt in with rice, noodles or quinoa. I mostly stir fry or steam vegetables, so why would you add salt when doing that? I don't think people eat traditional meat and two veg type meals so much these days. Modern eating habits are very different. Most people I know cook various Asian cuisines, curries, noodle based dishes, ramen, or one pot type meals, which all usually have so many different spices and flavourings they don't need salt.

I am more likely to add pepper to things. White or black depending on the recipe.

It sounds like you have very sensitive tastebuds. I used to struggle with spicy food but over years of my husband’s cooking I now have a very high spice threshold. It’s something that built over time.

My friend who is Pakistani says they start them young

Spices actually are ‘heat’. They may not be to you but to me that’s what they taste like and they overwhelm anything.

Obviously! The only people who get used to chilli are those who like it. Otherwise you don’t eat it often enough to get used to it.

I can taste when someone has used ordinary pepper in cooking so I can confidently say I am never going to be able to taste food with chilli in it.

You used the word 'heat'.

Spices arent 'heat'. Apart from black pepper of course

Anything like chilli powder are from chillies, similarly a hot paprika.

My food has layers of flavour, the food itself, the interaction of the spices and herbs.

Some of us know how to cook!

Comment of the week 🤣

Only people who aren’t used to chilli find it masks the taste of other components!

Thats enough internet for me today. Who put 50p in the dickhead?

Actually I did mean spices, not just chillis, but thank you for assuming I don’t know what I meant.

Spices overwhelm food and you can’t taste the actual food, I’m sure you will come back and say your use is subtle though.

I hope you are happy up there on your moral high ground.

That’s interesting. My mum complains that my husband and I don’t generally add salt to our food when cooking. She will quite pointedly ask for it in a way I find a bit rude. I think the thing is that if you’re not cooking with lots of salt you can taste the flavours of everything else in the meal and so it doesn’t feel bland to you.

Anyway, I digress. She did say she really hoped our child was getting some salt and as a result I have heeded her advice and he has good quality (but not low salt) ketchup, pasta cooked in salted water and other sources of salt. I’m glad I heeded her advice now!

No - it tastes of chilli so ironically you can’t really taste the food

Surely with a roast dinner the gravy is either full of flavour if it's home made or full of salt if it's not?
With grilled salmon and boiled potatoes I'd want butter which would be salty anyway.
We don't really add salt to meals because so often something in a meal, whether it's bread, a sauce, butter or processed meat, already contains salt.