Anyone ever put salt on their fruit?

[Tab]

I came across this article http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090115/wl_time/08599187163500 about salt in coffee - I don't drink coffee myself, so I don't care, but they made this observation:

What inspired those chefs to come up with sea salt coffee? According to spokeswoman Kathy Chung, it was the Taiwanese habit of sprinkling salt on fruits like pineapple and watermelon to bring out their sweetness. Salty coffee also makes sense in a place where shaved-ice desserts are topped with corn kernels and breads get slathered with sugary frosting and bits of pork. "Taiwanese are greedy," explains graphic designer Xena Wang, one of six friends who recently tried the drink for the first time. "We like to get all the tastes we can in one bite."

I've never salted fruit, unless it was in a margarita, and lord knows watermelon today is pretty much tasteless, so I was curious if anyone here had experimented with it. Now I want to try it, but it's so frickin' cold here I'm damned if I'm going out to the store tonight.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. My Boston buddies

in college always salted their bananas.

I salt all melons.

[Warpy]

2. Depends on the fruit

A few grains of salt can certainly help the "picked green, shipped a thousand miles and then sprayed with ethylene gas" produce in the supermarket.

Just don't put more than a few grains on it, though, or all you'll taste will be salt.

[cbayer]

3. I like it on watermelon.

I don't know why, but I like that combination.

I like all kinds of cheese, some of which are salty, on all kinds of fruit. Cheese fondue with apples, pears and grapes (and of course really good french bread) is one of my most favorite meals.

:hi:

[Tab]

5. I definitely like cheese with fruit

Cheddar with apples is the classic, of course, but fruit and cheese courses are common.

Speaking of fondue, though, I'll post (or re-post?) my recipe for that.

[cbayer]

7. Please do post your fondue recipe, and I will add mine.

I have a friend who makes an apple pie with a cheddar cheese crust. OMG!

[troubleinwinter]

4. Hawaii

In the mornings, sitting on my grandmother's lanai, with papaya that had come from the tree just minutes before, half of us used lime juice, half of us used a bit of salt. I used salt. I do love a sliced green apple with a tad of salt.

As kids in Hawaii, we'd go to the saimin parlor and put a dash of soy sauce in our glass bottles of coke.

As a snack, we'd buy Li Hing Mui. A dried salted fruit (probably had been plums once upon a time). They tasted pretty much like a bullion cube.

[grasswire]

6. my dad put salt on watermelon

...and sugar on cottage cheese. He spent his youth in Saskatchewan, on the prairies. My father-in-law also put salt on watermelon, and he was from Kansas.

[likesmountains 52]

8. I remember salting apple slices as a kid..

[AwakeAtLast]

9. I salt AND pepper my cantaloupe

I just like it that way. :shrug:

That is the only fruit that I touch with salt, but when I was in Hawaii, people salted the pineapple. They claimed it cut down on the acid that would make their mouths sore. I never tried it.

[hvn_nbr_2]

19. That's what we did when I was a kid

I just eat the cantaloupe plain now. Actually, I almost never put salt on anything now because of blood pressure, but I don't think I would salt cantaloupe anymore anyway.

[susanna]

10. I love salt on watermelon.

It does do something nice to the taste. My mom and grandma did it (southern), so I always have too. I have also used it in macerated strawberries in balsamic vinegar...I even add the teensiest pinch of pepper to that, and it's wonderful. Sounds weird, but really a great combination.

I absolutely adore anything salted then covered in chocolate OR salted popcorn/pretzels and some sort of chocolate eaten together. The salt seems to cut the richness or sweetness of the chocolate. (Of course chocolate is not a fruit, but it is one of my required food groups.)

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[sandnsea]

11. My husband salts apples, grapefruit, watermelon

I think he might even salt walla walla sweets, iirc. He grew up in Washington so he picked apples right off the tree and salted them and ate them. Seems criminal to me. I don't use much salt on anything so I couldn't begin to tell you what flavor it changes.

[DrDan]

12. yep - tomatoes

[Tesha]

13. Sweet and Salty

Absolutely!

Melon with prosciutto
Grapes with Cheese
Apple Pie with Cheddar


Melon, apples, watermelon - A little bit sea salt just improves the whole experience..

[mt13]

21. chocolate covered pretzels!

[supernova]

14. I used to salt cantaloupes

for my breakfast in the morning when I was a kid. Still do sometimes.

It does bring out a stronger flavor of the fruit that way.

[hippywife]

15. Used to put it on

apples, watermelon and muskmelon. Don't put it on any fruit now. A couple of girls I used to work with put salt and pepper on their oranges. :crazy:

[kestrel91316]

16. My sister puts salt on her grapefruit and her watermelon.

I can't for the life of me figure out what the hell is wrong with her. She also puts MUSTARD on her french fries.

[The empressof all]

17. I put a pinch of salt in my coffee

My mother use to put washed egg shells along with a pinch of salt in with the grounds in her perculator.

I do like a bit of salt on the watermelon and sometimes on cantelope. Fresh cracked Black Pepper on Cantelope is lovely. Cheeses like Gjetost lend a salty flavor to apples and pears and who can resist a salad with pears, blue cheese and pecans. Sweet and salty are a terrific treat. Just don't get me started on the ice cream/potato chip combos.....:wow:

[Lucinda]

18. All melons and apples. And pepper is great on cantaloupe.

[mt13]

20. on canteloupe.

it brings out the sweetness!