Man, that line about tasting like you're about to swim in it just hit me different. The thing nobody brings up is that this kind of tip isn't really about salt at all, it's about learning to trust your own mouth instead of a recipe. Marco made you taste it, which means he taught you to stop measuring and start paying attention. I had a prep cook named Rosa who did the same thing with vinegar in dressings, made me sip it until it "woke up my face." Ten years later I still can't dress a salad without hearing her voice, and honestly the recipe people never get that the lesson was never the ingredient.

Cat trap worked, mine just sits in the box lid instead.

That $40 from 12 superfans is such a real thing, I keep seeing it in music and indie games too. Small groups of people who actually care beat huge crowds who scroll past every time.