Gatsybah - exactly xD If someone would use such amount o salt every day - he would DIE from heart disease :D

Well you do need a bit of salt to cook, but why would you use the entire pile? I think it's a good mod because otherwise the amount of food you can make is limited by how much salt you have, and that's stupid, it should be limited by how much food you have

Zensible is right in a sense. SInce this game is modeled of the viking age, they needed the meat to keep long. So they would cook it and put salt on it so it dries the meat and it will keep twice as long. Not to mention, without salt, you can't sweat. You want to keep up the image of a nord warrior, sweat and all.

Yes, thank you! I am using quite a few mods, including an eating/drinking/sleeping mod, and it's so frustrating that I can kill deer and get venison by the bucketload, but I am still hungry because I can't seem to figure out how to cook meat without salt. It's a steak. Just cook it. Now if the requirement was A1 steak sauce, I suppose I could understand...

Anyways, it'll finally be nice to eat something besides leeks and stale breads I stole from bandit hideouts.

Zensible, just how much salt are you adding to those steaks? And why is salt not in some of the stew recipies? Your argument is noit only invalid, but retarded.

What next? Cooking meat without meat? :D this *without salt cooking* is bullshit... :D but maybe somebody's feeling healthier without salt, I dunno :D

who needs salt anyway?

@Zensible If you are in the middle of the wilderness kind of like skyrim i dont think your gonna care if you have salt or not, your just gonna cook your food and eat it. So, this mod actually does make sense.

MY BIGGEST problem in skyrim = > the salt has southerly winds of rarity in skyrim that the emerald or the enderegg in minecraft

To quote Shakespeare, "I love you, as Meat loves Salt." Not a noob, am a cook for a living. Try making two steaks, one with salt, one without. Eat them both. tell me which is better, then you will understand why this mod is not needed. Sorry. It's not a macho thing, it's a cooking thing. Clearly this eluded you.

The desc about the dragon slayin and wearing dragon armor is suppose to mean your hardcore person who can handle eating meat with out salt. No salt is needed to cook the meat.

@MMF Legacy, I think he's referring that someone who can kill a dragon and also has the skills to disassemble the dragon into pieces that are suitable for wearing and make a not only functional but form following armor suit, shouldnt need a little salt to make a steak. I can make a steak without salt, but unfortunately I have yet to slay the neighborhood dragon.

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@Gibberin Goblin
the problem about having to have salt piles is that they are actually rather rare.

UGHHGHH I THE SALT IS FOR THE LOREEE UHGHGHGHYOU NOOB SCRUB... Say all the comments, I Like the fact you don't need salt anymore, Aint Nobody got time for Hunting Salt! Good Job

What is so bad about needing a salt pile . _ .

Ok regarding your description, what does killing dragons and wearing armor made out of dragon bones have to do with cooking?

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W-Cephei if you could meke this mod a no salt grilled meat and add two new types of grilled meats that would be great. The 2 new could be, seasond with salt and spieced done with salt garlic and leeks asleeks seem to act like onions in the game. Doing this would allow reciepes to be changed. Example; venisen stue game:venisen,salt,leek,cabbage; new venisen stue: spiced venisen,tomato,patato,cabbage.

some of the best ideas are the little things i enjoy realism thank you for finding a way to improve my favorite game

This mod makes perfect sense, and any logic saying that the salt is used for preservation is fail, seeing how good doesn't spoil in Skyrim. Now if someone made a mod for that to happen it would be awesome. You should have the option to use salt to keep you meat from going bad, but it will also become edible unless you cook the salt of the meat first. Salt was used most for preservation not for flavor. Eating that much salt would kill you, or at the very least make make your blood pressure so high that fighting dragon or shouting would be out of the question, but you'd make a nice salty dragon snack XD

I would love to see compatibility with Teeq's Better Loot v1.14

nice! cooking made easier and more enjoyable.

dude you use salt to make it taste a little bit better it without salt must taste nasty its like french fries without the tastynes

Well yeah dark matter...but this is Skyrim. There are dragons. I don't think realism is Bethsada's highest priority

From a realism perspective having salts necessary for cooking meat makes a lot of sense. Think about it: no refigeration. Even in the cold nippy climate of Skyrim meats are going to spoil pretty quickly so you need salt to help preserve it. Of course, the game developers don't really capture this since nothing ever spoils, so . . . meh. My point is that it makes sense even if the devs didn't do a good job of capturing why.

it's not useless if you have "the hunter's life" in which you can use them to preserve animal pelts.

@jay - Yeah, its in potions. Its needed for potions. Its one of my most extremely used ingredients when I'm doing alchemy.

yea but now the salts now a useless item...arpart from potions...is it even in potions?

nobody should be eating THAT much salt. I'm pretty sure that eating that much salt at once can kill you.

@jay_brighton - Well, then salt needs to be more common and easier to find/collect. Sometimes I feel like cooking cause of all the vegies and meat I have but I never have enough salt to cook said meals and such. And realistcally you don't need salt for soup in order to cook said soup, only enhance the flavor.

not having it just makes the cooking system unrealistic

There is a mod similar to this at Curse.com , but it removes salt from ALL recipes not just meat-only ones.

Salt was/is used as a preservative, but not as part of the cooking process.

@dfg3179 yeah.. if you make salted meat or fish, but i don't see a reason why you should need salt to roast a chicken breast for example. so, good mod.

I found it mildly irritating to have to keep salt on hand when cooking. Suggestion: Rename this mod to "Heart Healthy"

What does killing Dragons have to do with cooking??

it's to preserve the meat... but in skyrim, food doesn't go bad. I'd, personally, stick with the ^slightly^ more realistic method requiring salt, but by skyrim logic... well, to each his own.

Salt is good.

because in the dark ages up till roughly the late 1800 we used salt to preserve meat so it would last longer...

Its used to preserve meat?

<3 thanks!