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ProfessorGAC

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6. Salt Is Taste Amplifier

Reply to underpants (Reply #3)

Mon May 26, 2025, 06:28 PM

May 26

Inadequate level of salt will make all food less flavorful than it should be.
It's one of the reasons people who need to cut salt due to hypertension find it so hard to do it. The food tastes blah. Potassium chloride (KCl) is a substitute but it is only moderately successful on replacing sodium chloride.

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DU! I need help! How many holes do salt & pepper shakers have? [View all] underpants May 26 OP

If the body of the shaker is opaque you ask the host. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 26 #1

Pepper shakers generally in the US have three larger because generally one uses less pepper. Larger holes are for ... marble falls May 26 #2

That's what I said. underpants May 26 #3

Salt Is Taste Amplifier ProfessorGAC May 26 #6

No matter how many holes Marthe48 May 27 #12

There is no uniform, all salt shakers have x holes and all pepper shakers have y holes. PoindexterOglethorpe May 26 #4

I'm Going With... ProfessorGAC May 26 #5

Habanero idea (lol) Niagara May 26 #7

I collect salt and pepper shakers and in the USA the salt has 3 holes and pepper 2 kimbutgar May 26 #8

A tangential inquiry UTUSN May 26 #9

I wonder if the cheese shaker is for Nittersing May 27 #11

i use vintage shakers. 13 holes + the big one has 19. i also have a estate sale collection. then the open salts i have.. pansypoo53219 May 27 #10

i loved the friar ( priest ) salt and pepper shakers AllaN01Bear May 27 #13