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How to fix your food
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1
If your dish is too salty, add acid, fat, or more substance (if it's soup, add a potato).
2
If your dish is too sweet, add acid (citrus juice, vinegar, etc.).
3
If your dish is too sour, add fat or salt (cream, butter, etc.).
4
If your dish is too bitter, add fat or something sweet (cream, butter, sugar, honey, etc.).
5
If your dish tastes bland or off, add salt and/or acid.
6
If your dish lacks depth, add something savory or umami (MSG, soy sauce, parmigiano reggiano, etc.).
7
When adding seasoning, use multi-dimensional seasonings instead of plain ones.
Ingredients
1 pinch salt
1 splash acid
1 tablespoon fat
1 potato substance
1 tablespoon chicken stock or water
1 splash lemon juice
1 splash vinegar
1 tablespoon cream
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon sugar
1 pinch MSG
1 splash soy sauce
1 tablespoon parmigiano reggiano
1 splash Aji-Mirin
1 tablespoon brown sugar
Equipment
bowl
scale
lemon juicer
pot
pan
immersion blender
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