Pepper V Salt?

[Stanley Edwards]

What is your condiment of choice?

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Pepper for me.

 

[marty21]

Pepper for me

 

[Callum91]

Salt of course. Are they to be considered condiments?

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Why not both?

 

[weltweit]

I use too much salt at the moment.

Only this morning I listened to someone saying excess salt causes heart attacks and premature aging.

Is there anything that does not cause bad things these days?

 

[marty21]

I don't put salt on anything - just stopped using it years ago -

 

[Santino]

I don't put salt on anything - just stopped using it years ago -

Do you use it in the cooking process?

 

[weltweit]

I don't put salt on anything - just stopped using it years ago -

I don't use it in cooking, but I sprinkle it on food.

 

[weltweit]

So does anyone still use aluminium pots and pans?

Makes you senile!

Apparently

 

[marty21]

Do you use it in the cooking process?

yes - but not sprinkled on my food once cooked

 

[Stanley Edwards]

So does anyone still use aluminium pots and pans?

Makes you senile!

Apparently

Ah!

 

[Santino]

yes - but not sprinked on my food once cooked

Same here, I never add it unless something has been seriously undersalted during cooking. I used shitloads when I'm cooking pasta though, in the blind belief that the pasta will magically absorb the right amount and no more.

 

[Santino]

So does anyone still use aluminium pots and pans?

Makes you senile!

Apparently

My great-grandmother used her aluminium pot for almost 70 years and is now senile.

 

[weltweit]

My great-grandmother used her aluminium pot for almost 70 years and is now senile.

I knew there was some proof out there !!

Apparently it is bits of aluminium getting into you and not doing you any good.

Mind you the person who mentioned it also said that salt was public enemy no1

Who knows - and life is too short

 

[mr steev]

Pepper everytime.
I don't really use salt in cooking or put any on my food with a handful exceptions like dahl, some curries, breads, boiled eggs and cheese and tomato sandwiches

 

[veracity]

Couldn't live without pepper. I live in fear that it will be announced that pepper is bad for you.

 

[Cheesypoof]

I don't put salt on anything - just stopped using it years ago -

Me too, apart from chips/ spuds. I use salt for cooking, as an ingredient, but not as a condiment.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Pepper for me. Hardly use salt, bar sometimes in cooking, and on chips. A 250g box of Maldon last me about a year.

 

[Pickman's model]

So does anyone still use aluminium pots and pans?

Makes you senile!

Apparently

getting old makes you senile

 

[IC3D]

chili pepper for me renders salt superfluous. although I sometimes binge on salt, presumably if Im dehydrated I use as little as possible normally

 

[wayward bob]

salt obvs. pepper should be used with discrimination and not willy nilly. most savoury food prepared from fresh ingredients benefits from judicious salting.

 

[Cid]

Couldn't live without pepper. I live in fear that it will be announced that pepper is bad for you.

Technically you could. You definitely can't live without salt.

 

[T & P]

Why not both?

 

[Epona]

Why it is either/or? They serve different purposes.

 

[Corax]

My salt is 2/3 magnesium I think.

Which probably makes chemists cry.

 

[veracity]

Technically you could. You definitely can't live without salt.

OK. Wouldn't want to have to live without pepper, it's a vital part of flavouring for me.

 

[maomao]

Technically you could. You definitely can't live without salt.

It's true. If you ever tell a mainland Chinese person to use less salt they'll tell you you don'tknow what you're talking about and how revolutionary heroes died on the long march from lack of salt.

For me, only on chips really, a minimum in cooking.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Why it is either/or? They serve different purposes.

One gives you cancer, the other destroys your heart.

Both together is an option.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Doesn't matter what it is, it's tea* so you put salt on it.





*Tea as in the meal rather than the drink.