Toooo much salt!!

It's potatoes, you slice up potatoes and put them in the soup or you can boil them, mash them and use them as a thickener, they absorb the salt and you can't taste it as strongly.

hi appls, the only thing I can think of is potatoes. Big chunks and then take them out after they are cooked. Good luck Happy posting..

I've heard this too! I think it was a potato. If I remember it right you put a peeled potato in to boil for a bit and it absorbs the salt. I really hope you get it worked out either way!

Awwww I hate that when that happens. Even though I try to water it down, it ruins the whole dish and we end up not eating it. I have done that soooo many times!

The only solution I can think of is exactly what you said. Add more water and allow it to simmer for a while. The good thing about soup is that it is fixable because it is mostly water.

Try peeling a few potatoes and slicing them into your soup. Leave them simmering for about 20 minutes then scoop them out. Your soup should be less salty tasting. Hope this works.

Quarter a couple of big potatoes then boil them in the soup. Throw the potato away. Your soup should be fine then. Hope this helps.

I was told that if you peel a large potato and put it in the soup it is supposed to absorb the salt.

I just don't add salt. I haven't added salt to any of my cooking for over 20 years. It is likely the sausages you used in your soup already had a lot of salt in it. I find the salt that is used in preparations of meats, tins is more than enough.

I've heard that if you add a slice of raw potato to the soup, it will soak up the salt. When the potato is cooked through, it should have done it's job. Hope this helps.

I have tried using sugar to minimize the salty taste to my dishes. Im a very salty person but when it gets too salty I just add a pinch of sugar to neutralize the taste.

Potatoes absorb salt so just cut up some chunks and throw them in there until they are pretty well cooked and then take them out. They don't leave an after taste and that should get rid of the saltiness! If still a salty taste, try a little sugar to temper the taste, but start very small and work up...too much will make it too sweet.

Hi Applsofgld - thank you for starting this discussion as I had no idea about the potatos in the soup, and thank to you now I know. Hope you were able to save your soup this way :) TheFortunes

I hear about potatoes to put there and let it cook and then take it from there and soup will be delicious.

If i can remember right ya drop a whole potato inther and it should get the salt out can't eat salt no more so not for sure but i think that is waht it is

I have been told adding rice will help, but I prefer diced potatoes that helps a lot. Good luck!!!Let us know how it works. Take Care.

I think you should put water and cook it again. I am sorry I am not a good cook.

I've always heard that you put a potato in the soup and it absorbs the salt but who wants to throw away a whole potato? I'm much too frugal for that! Well, I never put any salt in soup that I make, although we sometimes add salty ingredients such as ham or cheese. We have sea salt at the table and add a little as necessary after it is served. Hubby likes things saltier than I do, so he uses it mostly. I don't put salty seasoning on meats before cooking them either, as we prefer the flavor of Bragg's Amino Acid liquid flavoring. We keep a spray bottle of that delicious condiment on the table right next to the pepper grinder.

...just put any of appropriate vegetables especially those watery leaves or crops that absorb salty flavor..

i can't remember too what to do when you had put in a lot of salt. maybe try adding some vinegar. i am not sure about this. if that won't help maybe some sugar will take offset the salt in your food. i am not a chef but i heard somewhere that its the way to lessen the taste of salt in food. i just can't remember if it's really the vinegar or the sugar that will help it. i didn't really remember since i am not really into cooking much. i just cook food that i cook only well. those easy to cook meal. but those that involve some time and effort and lots of ingredients i don't actually do that.