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6. What About the Potato Trick?
You’ve probably heard the classic advice: “Put a raw potato in the salty soup and it will absorb the salt.”
There is some truth behind the idea that a potato can absorb salty liquid—but it doesn’t selectively pull salt out of a dish.
As the potato cooks, it absorbs water along with some of the dissolved substances in that water, including salt. Other starchy or solid ingredients can behave similarly.
So adding a potato isn’t a magical way to remove excess salt.
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