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ELI5: Why should we add salt and pepper to a dish toward the end of a recipe?
gpt
Professional chef speaking. Typically, we add salt & pepper toward the end of a recipe as a fine tuning of the final taste. Sometimes we add salt/pepper early on, depending on the recipe & the ingredients; but adding at the end is a matter of rounding off the process & the flavors.