Unseasoned food

I do think it’s rude to add salt and pepper without even tasting the food but I always always have salt and pepper Mills out for every single meal because I love adding it myself. I season most dishes but I do Always add salt when cooking potatoes because I just think it adds something to them

I’ll hold my hands up and say I’m remarkably slack the past few years re salt and pepper on the table because I have v young children (4yo and 1yo) who obviously can’t (or shouldn’t!) have much salt at all, and if the elder sees it, or more to the point sees someone else have it, he wants it too, so I don’t put it out and it doesn’t occur to me that others may want it!
With that being said, I do use seasoning generally, herbs, spices, etc etc. If anything, I lean towards the slightly too much side. It’s just personal tastes I guess isn’t it? What’s right for one won’t be right for another.

I really recommend Blackthorn salt.

I like my food to be well seasoned and cook daily with herbs and spices, unsalted potatoes are a complete abomination.

Doesn’t the food taste of food?

I often forget. We only use minimal salt but I use loads of pepper and herbs and spices.

but I forget done people like their salt and I forget to put it on the table.

just ask?

Also on my hit list is people that say 'spices' when they mean 'chillies' 😜

I use a lot, a LOT of herbs and spices but dont always use chillies and sometimes dont put much in if I do.

I think it is more that people don’t know how to use spices, so food doesn’t taste of anything but heat!

Mind blown.

You prefer bland food?

With your steamed fish and veg, do you not season it at all? Do you have any sauces with it?

Your post immediately made me think of Victoria Beckham’s alleged diet.

Do you like potatoes?

I agree with this. People do not season their food properly, you watch chefs on telly and they say 'a pinch' but what they actually put in is far more than 'a pinch'.

Restaurant food is like this which is why its so nice. I really upped my use of all seasonings many years ago, even spices in cakes where normally it asks for quarter of a tsp or half a tsp, I put much much more in.

My food is much better than anything I can buy and often much better than restaurant food. Layers of flavour. Fat is also necessary.

Tbf, other people’s home cooked food IS fairly rank 😀

My theory is that lots of people think home cooked food isn't very nice (because they don't season it) so they eat processed food and takeaways (which contain loads of fat and salt) instead.

I measured out a weeks worth of salt intake into a tub and it's a lot, I liberally salted my food and didn't use all of it for ages. I used to have near fainting episodes after exercise and salting my food stopped it.

I have heard multiple people complain that British salt isn't as salty as elsewhere so you have to use more. DP brings salt from Portugal!

Because we're kept so chronically short of salt and seasonings that any old shite from a packet tastes much better than a limp, watery plate of overboiled vegetables and some anaemic looking chicken breast.

Make decent ingredients taste good and there's no drive to seek out something that tastes of something.

YANBU, obviously.

We have massively cut down on the amount of salt we use in cooking, although we still use plenty of pepper, chilli & other spices. Salt is always available for those who want to add it, though. Maldon, of course, because we’re worth it.

Maybe keep your own salt and pepper mill in your handbag or pocket for meals in future. And when you take them out to use on your food, offer them around to everyone else

We are overweight and obese as a nation. Thats why we have hgh blood pressure and heart disease.

I used to work for a paediatric cardiologist. He said he often had children referred for unexplained fainting episodes, but it was usually caused by low sodium which he said was probably because salt is often not used in home cooked food anymore 🤷‍♀️

I’m an old fogie and I’ve never put salt and pepper on the table, and neither does anyone I know. But food cooked without seasoning is yuk . I do season as I cook, and I’m trying to cut back a little. To me if you add salt at the table all you taste is salt ! Except chips. You have to have salt on chips !

Some people are just bad cooks!
I have a friend like that. I would never ask for salt and pepper though, I just eat the bad meal.

I have to eat a lot of salt due to a medical condition so we always have salt on the table. I don't add to much to cooking as I don't want to kill the kids.

It must be both. People were told to reduce their salt in the 80s even before the massive rise in pretend food we buy now.

Doesn't apply to me, I despised pretty much everything I was given until I encountered food with flavour.

ETA: maybe that's why some people need the acid, seasonings and umami of ketchup in order to get the food down? They've just been handed tasteless mush all their lives, so had to get some flavour from somewhere.

Blood pressure. The reason for the lack of salt. Adding it is known to increase the BP. And, especially as you age, this is not a good thing !
When having guests though rude to not have it on the table. People are able to make their own mind up.
Everyone’s taste sensors are very different. Some will have salt some will love it.

It's not the salt home cooks put in their cooking that's the issue. It's the salts added to mass produced food that's causing the problem.

Reading this thread sort of explains why the UK has high levels of high blood pressure and heart disease!

No butter or seasoning on potatoes ??!! Horrific