salting watermelon
The only way I eat watermelon is to put salt on it.
Salty To Sweet
Now one of the things that salt does is in effect to draw water toward itself. If you have a region of high salt concentration next to one of low salt concentration, the water from the low-salt concentration area will move over to the high-salt area.
By sprinkling a little salt on your melon you are creating a high-salt concentration area next to those cells. Their water is drawn up to the surface where you bite, bringing flavor with it. The melon has become miraculously sweeter thanks to salt! Add too much, however, and the taste of the salt itself will overpower the effect, and it will taste salty.
Do you salt your watermelon?
Salty To Sweet
Now one of the things that salt does is in effect to draw water toward itself. If you have a region of high salt concentration next to one of low salt concentration, the water from the low-salt concentration area will move over to the high-salt area.
By sprinkling a little salt on your melon you are creating a high-salt concentration area next to those cells. Their water is drawn up to the surface where you bite, bringing flavor with it. The melon has become miraculously sweeter thanks to salt! Add too much, however, and the taste of the salt itself will overpower the effect, and it will taste salty.
Do you salt your watermelon?
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Salt was once upon a time as valuable as precious metals!
It was a highly traded commodity.
Out in the wilderness, you are hungry and alone without any supply's and you either catch a fish or kill an animal. Building a fire to cook on is a chore without modern convieniances but it can be done.
No salt means the food tastes pretty bland but it sustains you.
As for me, my salt shaker has pretty big holes in it![:)]0 -
Growing up, we always did. Don't every time anymore. But a little salt on cantaloupe, and pepper. Yes. Mainly because I love cantaloupe for breakfast with bacon and eggs, and lots of buttery toast. [:D] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by diver-rig
I salt all melons, grapefruit, apples, and most everything else, up to and including beer.
I crave salt, especially after sweating all day at work. Low blood pressure will do that to a fella.
You?re right, but it?s more complicated than that. A couple of years ago I spent some time in the hospital because not enough salt almost killed me. One of the doctors at the hospital told me salt is one of the electrolytes our bodies must have to stay alive. He advised me to never completely cut salt out of my diet.
On my next visit to the doctor who told me to never eat salt under any circumstances, the first thing she said when she came into the room was ?are you sticking to your salt free diet?? I said ?not since you tried to kill me?. That was my last visit to that doctor.
I didn?t mention to either one of them that I never started the ?salt free diet?.0 -
I salt store-bought watermelon. I much prefer warm, unsalted, sun-ripened melon straight off the vine in my garden (when the deer don't destroy the crop). 0 -
quote:Originally posted by neacpa
I salt very few things, but watermelon and canteloupe are two exceptions to my no salt policy.
This!
And french fries.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Tflogger
quote:Originally posted by neacpa
I salt very few things, but watermelon and canteloupe are two exceptions to my no salt policy.
This!
And french fries.
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Found a seedy one with a nice "yellow belly" yesterday while I was out and about shopping. Looking forward in to cutting in to her later today. 0 -
Is there another way? [:D] 0 -
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quote:Originally posted by montanajoe
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