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Salt on watermelon?

Salt on watermelon?

  • Yes

    Votes: 65 40.4%

  • No

    Votes: 96 59.6%
  • Total voters
    161
#61
Depends what type of Water Melon we're discussing...

If it's a fresh, ripe and chilled water melon, a big yes for the salt shaker!

If'n we're talking a "Wahoo Water Melon", it'll depend on what Tequila was used to enhance the water melon experience!!!
 
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#69
Gorn said:
There are the fruits that most people consider vegetables. Avocados, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers. You probably put salt on those. It really is good on watermelon though. I'd put enough for it to be slightly salty, but even just a tiny bit so no one would even guess it was there really does make it especially delicious.
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I'll have to try salt next time I eat raw eggplant.
 
#71
Best use for salt:
If your black coffee is a bit bitter or harsh put one "grain" of salt in it. You won't taste the salt but the coffee will taste better!
Science!
Also, watermelon any way is delicious.
 
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#73
logdrum said:
And cook pasta in the tomato based sauce directly. Learned it from someone born in Naples. You may have to a little water if it's too dry or cheap wine. I will not do it any other way moving forward, unless it's white sauce or pesto then that's different.
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Wow - a few years ago we started cooking spaghetti noodles and meat sauce together in the Instant Pot- gamechanger! The tomatoe sauce permeates the noodles and yum! Had no idea cooking noodles in the sauce was authentic!
 
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#77
DavidG said:
If your black coffee is a bit bitter or harsh put one "grain" of salt in it. You won't taste the salt but the coffee will taste better!
Science!
Also, watermelon any way is delicious.
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Yeah, salt on watermelon has been a thing all of my life (thanks Mommy and Daddy LOL). These days it just depends on the moment if I use salt or not. Good stuff either way.

I'd learned about the salt in coffee decades ago. Haven't stopped putting a very small pinch in each cup. Removes the bitterness, makes it smoother. Seems to restore much of the natural flavor of coffee. We just use coffee from cans when they're on sale or Buy One/Get One Free. Salt greatly improves the taste.

For coffee drinkers passin' thru that haven't tried it, I'd recommend trying it once. I promise, it won't ruin anything. By 'small pinch', I'm only guessing I use around 10 grains, more or less, in a cup. Very small pinch. Nothing new, been around for hundreds of years in different parts of the world. Old world sailors used it, too.

Slightly related side story of too much salt in coffee.: Navy ships convert salt water into fresh water for cooking, drinking, bathing, etc. On my second 6 month cruise, one of the ships crew accidentally flooded one of the fresh water holding tanks with seawater. We got the tank flush/refilled in our next port, but coffee tasted horrible for the remainder of the cruise for the next 4 months. Not cool, man LOL
 
#78
fig said:
On my second 6 month cruise, one of the ships crew accidentally flooded one of the fresh water holding tanks with seawater. We got the tank flush/refilled in our next port, but coffee tasted horrible for the remainder of the cruise for the next 4 months. Not cool, man LOL
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That seems like the kind of thing that would get a sailor thrown in the brig.
 
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