Do most restaurants put salts on your fries without asking?

Strictly sodium-chlorides salts and none of that potassium-chlorides salts.

And never bath salts, that stuff fizzes up.

It annoys the heck outta me, can't stand salt on chips. We've started sending them back for unsalted.

I think it is getting more common, to be honest.

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maybe you could ask for a rain check on the salt and vinegar for your fries at the diner on the sidewalk period?

Salt is added after chips are cooked, not during. I have a heart condition and have to limit my salt intake, its a pain having to constantly ask for no added salt on chips or whatever.

If we know it's a restaurant that salts the chips, then yes, we'll ask for unsalted. Shouldn't have to ask at all, there's salt on the table, and no food needs the amount of salt that's thrown on some of the food we've been served.

It's to make you thirsty so you order more wine/beer.

Aromat has been available in Ireland for donkeys years, I used to smother chips with it 25 years ago, the stuff is savage.

Unless the restaurant is on the first floor. Then you'd have to get the elevator down

If only that was an option for those of us who work on tour...

You should have to ask. If the restaurant thinks salting the chips before serving is a good idea then that's their decision to make.

Tou probably shouldn’t be eating deep fried food at all with a heart condition 🤥

Then they should list it on the menu, so I can make the choice.

I can't eat cheese, so have to read menus carefully and make it clear to the wait staff to make sure that my food order will be cheese-free.

I have no issue asking, but if I don't know that salted chips are the norm, how will I know to ask?

Wait till ya try salt and vinegar crisps, OP.

Most chefs will know, they're professionals, a bit like mechanics putting lubricant on a newly installed part, it's the done thing, a lot of deep fried foods are seasoned post cooking (chips, wings, calamari etc..) They tend to salt & toss the chips straight out of the oil in a large bowl before plating. In my limited experience working in kitchens as a photographer this role is left to a commis chef & is fairly standard repetitive stuff, so they'd be producing food for a number of plates with not much contact with serving staff or visuals on the tickets. That's probably why demands for non-salted chips or unsauced wings to fall between the cracks.

It would be unusual for health conscious people to order this type of food in the first place, or if they do they're treating themselves on a night out. It's not a careless or dismissive practise but sending the salted chips back wouldn't be seen as rude or inappropriate, they'd just do a small batch again.

If they are putting salt on, I expect they will also put vinegar on. Just the right amount of course.

If your chips taste "like flippin cardboard" without being doused in salt you are either not cooking them right or using the wrong spuds.

Some places use low quality catering pack frozen chips, not saying you do.

Salting in the kitchen has crept in and people now think it's normal.

It's not, let the food stand on its own merits and allow the customer to add salt as required to taste.

Bit quick pressing the nonsense button there.

We are not talking about using salt in cooking which as you say is a long established practice.

The subject under discussion is salting food ,in this case chips, which is already cooked.

I promise I'm not trying to interfere with any of your recipes we are just talking about fries/chips.

Dousing them in salt is not a practice I approve of.

I'm not wrong I just have a different opinion to you.