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PinkFridge ↓

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 4:30 pm

I'm making a big pot of chicken soup and am thinking of putting in a few potatoes in a bag to take out for supper. I don't add salt to my soup; I rely on the natural salt in the chicken, bones, etc. Will the potatoes leech the salt? Thanks!
My guess is probably not. A few potatoes for 45 minutes in a big pot of soup that's been simmering for hour, right? TIA.

Librarian

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 5:43 pm

I don't know about potatoes, but fyi CELERY for sure absorbs salt

Sweet Sour ↓

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 6:03 pm

Try cucumber

↑ PinkFridge ↓

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 6:05 pm

Sweet Sour wrote:

Try cucumber

Yeah, but I want to make potatoes for supper, not cucumber. My goal is NOT to put in veg. that will absorb salt. In the end, I'm cooking them separately since the soup's pretty done.

↑ Sweet Sour

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 7:48 pm

PinkFridge wrote:

Yeah, but I want to make potatoes for supper, not cucumber. My goal is NOT to put in veg. that will absorb salt. In the end, I'm cooking them separately since the soup's pretty done.

Sorry.

For some reason only saw title.

↑ PinkFridge ↓

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 8:03 pm

Sweet Sour wrote:

Sorry.

For some reason only saw title.

Thanks. Interesting idea though.

challahchallah ↓

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 8:05 pm

I wouldn’t worry about it, for next time. Also, if your soup is accidentally not salty enough, can you just add salt? That seems like a much easier problem to fix than the reverse. What am I missing?

↑ PinkFridge ↓

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 8:35 pm

challahchallah wrote:

True. It won't be salt-free.

gonewiththewind1

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 8:40 pm

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↑ PinkFridge

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 8:41 pm

SafeAtLast wrote:

Chicken does not have natural salt.
We kosher out chickens with so much salt that it does not need as much salt as non kosher chicken.
The potatoes will probably make the soup blander, so taste the soup 10 minutes before it's done to see if you want to add salt.

Right. That's why I don't add salt to the soup. If people choose to at the table, I'm not offended.

↑ challahchallah ↓

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 10:53 pm

PinkFridge wrote:

True. It won't be salt-free.

Sure, but it wasn’t salt free before either. You can salt sparingly to taste, so that all you’re doing is replacing the salt you removed with the potatoes. Kosher meat typically has a lot of residual salt in it, so there’s still salt in your soup even if you didn’t add it separately.

Salt semantics aside, I don’t think cooking potatoes in your soup will change its flavor much.

↑ challahchallah

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 10:54 pm

PinkFridge wrote:

Right. That's why I don't add salt to the soup. If people choose to at the table, I'm not offended.

This seems like a good system so everyone can have however much salt they want.

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