Salt and pepper don't necessarily go together... WAIT, WHAT 😱
intimidated me quite a bit. I was always afraid that I was going to use way too much of something and totally mess up my food, so I was often using way less than I should have. Even when I was following the measurements in a recipe, the final product would sometimes be disappointingly bland. But I was hesitant to ever add extra.—by watching expert tutorials and reading cookbooks—that it became clear what I was doing wrong.
When you're adding salt directly to a dish , you need to use much less. Start small and work your way up. Work with a teaspoon at a time and be sure to taste with every addition. That way you'll know for sure if it needs more, and if you've over salted, you'll have time to fix your mistake . If you've oversalted something, there's a super easy fix: Add more of the other ingredients you're using until it doesn't tastesalty anymore. Maybe that's more water in a soup, or more butter in a sauce, or more lemon juice in a. Every time you add another ingredient, taste the dish, and keep going until it tastes just right again. Sure, you'll have a larger portion of whatever you were cooking, but at least you won't have to throw it all away and start from scratch.