Everyday Systems

If I am cooking and need to taste what I'm making (i.e. a sauce to see if it needs something) wouldn't that be considered a snack.

I suppose I can just trust that it will be fine and I suppose I can cook batches of items on S days!

I know I'm being very picky but I want to do this properly and I don't want any tastes while cooking to lead me down a path of more and more tastes until it's a snack.

Thx

I do taste, but I have some rules about it:

You must use a teaspoon to taste, not a larger spoon, and the teaspoon does not go back in the pot after it has been in your mouth. One taste per teaspoon only. If you have to get a fresh spoon for each taste, that makes it harder to keep taking more and more tastes, as well as being more sanitary.

Tasting is only legitimate if you don't know what the item is going to taste like before you taste it. If you already know what it's going to taste like, it's snacking, not tasting. That means no eating bits of cheese (or other ingredients) while you're cooking, unless it is a kind of cheese you don't normally cook with. That also means that, unless you've made some adjustment to the seasoning of a dish since your last taste, you can't have another.

Licking the bowl is snacking, and as such is only allowed on S days.

I taste nearly everything I cook because no matter how simple it is, no matter how standard the ingredients, no matter how carefully you measure or if you don't measure, dishes turn out different every time. But a taste is just that -- a taste. It's not a bowlful or a plateful or even a spoonful.