# Do YouTube chefs use too much salt?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-youtube-chefs-use-too-much-salt/1025377>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 3, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-youtube-chefs-use-too-much-salt/1025377 "2025-12-03T22:54:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 21

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-youtube-chefs-use-too-much-salt/1025377/21 "2025-12-04T19:28:06Z")

</div>

More likely it’s the issue of how the salt is measured.

By volume, leads to trouble if the viewer uses regular table salt versus coarser kosher salt. Which brand of kosher salt is also important

Recipes are not computer programs. They are guidelines to help you get started.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-youtube-chefs-use-too-much-salt/1025377)._