I feel sick...

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I cooked myself a tri tip roast last night. Yay me! Only I "flavored" it with about a half can of seasoned salt. Once the salt started to wreak havoc on my system, I was forced to gobble sugar. Now I'm overdosed on BOTH sugar and salt, and feel sick. I feel depressed, with all that entails. Next time, I'm cooking the meat plain. I COULD buy cooked tri tip, but it adds $10 to the cost, which is why I bought a little convection oven. I had to stop seasoning New York cut steaks because I dumped too much salt on them. I don't know when to use "just enough" seasoning. Instead, I dump it on. Anybody else have this problem, or do you cook at all?

That's terrible! I use only a little salt at the end. When you're cooking meat, salt tends to draw the moisture out of it. So next time, don't use any salt until it's sitting on your plate. If you want to season it, you might try a dry rub, but choose one that doesn't have much if any salt.

Good luck!

Drinking water may help to dilute the saline content. Don't know what to tell you about the sugar except to avoid food and drink with sugar for a while.

I tend to eyeball some seasonings, and measure out others. I've watched my parents do both since I was a kid, so when I started making meals for myself and the family, I already had a pretty good sense of what was appropriate when it came to the amount of seasoning to put on something. I also seem to be naturally good at cooking, or at least naturally lucky, anyway. I rarely seem to have to pay exact attention to time limits, heat settings, and the like to be able to cook food well. It's kind of an internal sense to me; I just seem to automatically know how long I should cook something for, or when to call something done, after testing it. I guess that's, again, in part due to watching my parents prepare dinner since I was little, and having them teach me the more delicate things when it came time for me to learn to do it on my own.

On a related note, I also enjoy the cooking process a lot more if it's interactive. It's a lot less of a stresser for me to make dinner for the family if I'm not just simply nuking things in the microwave, baking them in the oven, or steaming them on the stove. I like to actually put effort into the food I prepare, like if I have to grill something or otherwise prepare or cook it a certain way. It probably has something to do with the fact that I like hands-on activities when it comes to learning skills, rather than sitting back and doing nothing.