The popularity of potatoes as a side dish forces housewives to study all the little things associated with cooking this dish.
Many chefs are sure that potatoes can be salted at any time. In their opinion, the time of adding sodium chloride is not of fundamental importance.
However, this is the wrong approach. If you sprinkle food with salt at the “wrong” moment, you can spoil the dish.
Therefore, any housewife should know at what time you need to salt boiled potatoes.
Common Mistake
Many amateur cooks add salt to the water almost at the same time as the potatoes - at the moment when the liquid is still cold.
If you do this, then the dissolution of the spice will be too slow. The result will be excessive salinity of the dish. In addition, the vegetable will probably boil.
To avoid this, many housewives salt potatoes immediately after boiling water.
However, this is also not the best option. Of course, the vegetable will not turn out as salty and boiled as in the previous case, but there is still a risk of losing integrity.
When to Salt Potatoes
The best time to add salt is five minutes after the water has boiled.
In this case, the salt will not spoil the dish in any way. It will turn out moderately salty and retained its shape.
Better yet, salt the potatoes after draining the water from the pan and adding butter.
