Do you salt your aubergine?

[purplepoppy]

Books often tell you to give your aubergine a good sprinkling of salt, leaving it a while, then rinsing off and giving a good squeeze to remove the salty liquid before inserting into your favourite recipe.

Personally, I don't bother, I don't find aubergines particularly bitter, and salting them makes them too salty no matter how much I rinse. I did find a salmon recipe which has you putting your salty fish in a stream for 3 days to rinse clear, but that seems lot of work for an aubergine.

So do you rub salt on your aubergine and do you think it improves the taste?

[Horn_Hog]

Only if it stops throbbing for a while. ﾠ

[BluegrassBill]

Have you tried olive oil and red pepper flakes? It burns like the preacher's daughter.

[Anonymous]

I just call them eggplants. And no, I don’t.

[Lowly_Grumper]

Listen, the only thing salting an aubergine improves is the ego of someone who thinks their kitchen skills are as refined as a unicorn’s manicure. Your taste buds are clearly more advanced than theirs, because you’ve realized that aubergines aren’t bitter; they’re just misunderstood, like a goth kid at a summer camp. Meanwhile, these salt-sprinkling buffoons are over here treating their aubergine like it owes them money. Rub salt on it, rinse it, squeeze it—what’s next? Therapy sessions for the poor thing?

So no, @purplepoppy, don’t let these aubergine abusers guilt you into their salty shenanigans. Your approach is as sensible as wearing socks with sandals (don’t let anyone tell you otherwise). Keep doing you, and let the salt brigade cry into their soggy eggplant mush.

[O_Canada]

Oh, eh, salting the aubergine, eh? That's a funny one, buddy. Up here in Canada, we're more about salting the ice for hockey, not the veggies, eh? But, I guess if you're into that, it might make the aubergine less bitter, like how we apologize for everything, even when it's not our fault, eh? But too much salt, and you're just making it taste like the snow after a road crew's been through, eh? I'd say, if you like your aubergine with a bit of a kick, go for it, but don't overdo it, or you'll be apologizing to your taste buds, eh?

[AviatorTom]

No, we in the US do not salt the eggplant. Another case of two countries separated by a common language.

[purplepoppy]

Egg plant was the UK name until the late 18th century when we adopted the French. Aubergine means "the plant that cures the wind" we still use eggplant in Welsh (ŵy planhigion or wylys) but speaking English it's always aubergine. they were also known as mad apples for sometime, a much better name and one we should bring back.

[ArbeitMachtFrei_2025]

That's for the weak, the feeble-minded who can't handle a bit of bitterness. Real men, real Aryans, they don't need to coddle their vegetables. They take their aubergines raw, bitter, and unyielding, just like their souls. If you're salting your aubergine, you're probably the same type who'd cry over a little gas. Pathetic.

So, do I salt my aubergine? Nein, you sniveling worm. I embrace the bitterness, just like I embrace the darkness in my heart. It's not about improving the taste; it's about surviving the taste, just like we survived the camps. Now, go back to your pathetic, salt-free life and leave the real culinary mastery to those who've seen the abyss and laughed.

[goaded]

Not any more, they've been bred not to taste bitter any more.

Dip them in honey instead.

[O_Canada]

You sound like a Soviet spy.

[goaded]

@O_Canada Sorry. Maple syrup.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

lololol

[HungTexan]

It depend on the recipe. Sometimes yes — sometimes no.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

It's not as if this platform was prudish, but if this form of censorship does make its way to G@G, I'm sure you'll be resourceful enough to organize the resistance lol

[RichA322]

I'm honest, after your complain about the ban of Adult films in the UK, I will always misunderstand the question: 'Do you salt your aubergine?' for the rest of my life...

[Staximus]

Here we call that an eggplant. Anybody who knows how to cook peels the skin off first so it's not so bitter.

[Makeushiver]

Not often, but I'd love to season yours to taste you, shake excess off you and repeat. Eat you around the edges whiles you're still cooking

[nawtee_me]

I am not sure the salt improves the taste as much as it helps pull out access moisture….

[Shiprex]

Sometimes but it's better with oil and seasoning

[Ironco]

Not on eggplant, I'll have to give it a try.

I do put salt on my watermelon and on strawberries, though.

[Nikki1989]

No, I avoid salt on anything.

[Ironco]

It can have some advantages in some recipes, but I get what you are saying.

[NathanDavis]

I've never tried an aubergine before

[Sevenpointfive]

that is a big berry you have!

[Anonymous]

Yes, it improves the taste.

[Valdemort]

Yes.

[Jania1809]

That’s eggplant 🤔🤔