Why is salty and oily restaurant food tasty?

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We have all heard about how the food at restaurants are made tasty and addictive by additions of sugar, salt and lots of fat. But even the slightest amount of additional salt at home can make food inedible or at least noticeably salty. How do restaurants manage to hide the saltiness/sweetness/oiliness in the food while making it addictive? Only thing I could think of is that they balance flavours out – make it more spicy or tangy. Though how they make so much extra oil taste ok is beyond me.

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When you add this extra salt at home, how are you adding it?

If you add salt at the very end of cooking, then it will often add a salty taste, but if you add salt throughout the cooking process, it ussually just enhances the other flavours.

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