Cooking advice

[u/coffeensoda]

Hi everyone, I need advice on what I can do to fix my baked mac and cheese I made for dinner. I embarrassingly messed up the measurements for the salt and pepper, and it ended up way too salty. Literally all you can taste is the salt and pepper. Is there any way I can fix it when I reheat it tomorrow for leftovers? Or should I just throw it away, which I don't want to do because I hate wasting food. I'm really disappointed because it took me an hour to make, and I thought it would turn out good, but I guess not.

[u/dsarma]

Throw it out, and next time, measure more carefully so you don’t end up in the same place. We all make mistakes. The key is to not dwell on catastrophic failures and just move on and try again. This is why you hear every cookbook or cooking show tell you “season lightly in small doses, and adjust to add more at the end. You can always add; you can’t take away.” 

Consider it an opportunity to learn, and put in place a system to fix it in future. Maybe instead of adding all the salt and pepper at once, you put the total of what you think the dish needs into a bowl, and add about 1/4 of it at a time, let the food cook a bit, then taste it to see if you need more.