How to Remedy Oversalted Cooking

A little too heavy-handed with the salt container and dinner has to be on the table soon? This article provides a few quick fixes to help you out in a hurry!

Steps

1. 1
   Fix oversalted soup. Soup can taste terrible if salt dominates the rest of the flavours. If salt is drowning your soup, add a little sugar to counterbalance it. The next step may also be of help for stew, and see further "Tips".
2. 2
   Fix oversalted stew. A salty stew tests the toughest diner. Quickly peel some potatoes and slice them into rounds. Add these to the stew to lighten the salt a little. The raw potatoes will absorb the salt as they cook briefly (until they look translucent) and then you can remove them (fish them out with a slotted spoon). The remaining stew should be less salty.^[1] Another quick fix is to add a few spoons of milk to the stew.^[2]
3. 3
   Fix oversalted vegetables. No asking what are you doing salting veggies?! Again, the same fix applies if the veggies are in water or broth as for the stew. If they are steamed or stir-fried, you will probably need to start again, although you can try rinsing steamed veggies if the oversalting is merely because the diner sprinkled too much salt on.