How salt, sugar, fat, and acid work together, and what to add when.
📚 5 Fundamentals
What You'll Learn
You will learn to identify what a dish is missing, and the order to correct it in.
Name the gap, then fix it
Heavy means add acid. Vague means add salt. Sharp means add fat. Flat in a deeper way usually means add umami.
Taste with a clean spoon every time. A used spoon carries the last taste and it will fool you.
Did you know?
Salt suppresses bitterness more strongly than sugar does. A pinch of salt in coffee is an old trick built on that.
Pro Tip
Season in three small steps rather than one large one. You cannot take salt back out of a pot.
