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[Sappho]

I made this nice-sounding bean spread recipe I found on the internet. It calls for 2 tablespoons of soy sauce as the final ingredient. I tasted it after each addition and it was getting better and better. Then I added the soy sauce and now the whole thing just tastes like a big ol' bowl of soy sauce. I had a look at the bottle and realized that it's the "dark" soy sauce which is apparently super-strong.

So my question is, is there a way to rescue this dip? It was soooo good before I added that damn soy sauce. I tried adding some water and more bread crumbs - a LOT of water and bread crumbs actually, but I can't get rid of that super-salty taste and now all of the other flavors have been drowned out. I feel like maybe something like sour cream might help, it being a bean dip and all, but I'm afraid to touch it anymore. Is there any way to save this stuff? Or will I be flushing a whole bowl of dip down the toilet and searching the flat for something else to eat?

[Hitty40]

This. Make sure to scroll down to where it says 'Uses'.

[Sappho]

I have tasted Marmite and it tastes like awfulness. Also it is not available in my country. In any case, this would be the opposite of what I need. I need something to balance/eliminate some of the soy sauce taste in my dip.

[Lagslayer]

Make more dip to dilute the soy sauce already in it?

[Weary Exile]

http://www.food-faq.com/other/7761-general-3ci.html ?

[Pnx]

I have tasted Marmite and it tastes like awfulness. Also it is not available in my country. In any case, this would be the opposite of what I need. I need something to balance/eliminate some of the soy sauce taste in my dip.

I can't stand marmite, but I'm told it's all about what you mix it with.

I guess I can understand, I mean Branston & pickle tastes horrible on it's own, but I loooove branston & pickle and cheese sandwiches nom nom nom.

Mmmm...
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Oh right, so maybe you'd like it better when it's mixed with something?

[Dwarmin]

Yeah, an amount of sweet should counteract the bitterness...right?

I also read somewhere that potatoes can be used to soak up salt. If you don't mind adding potatoes to your dip.

[Sappho]

Damn, wish I had some ginger or honey. Would plain sugar help? I have both granulated and powdered.

I could add more beans or potatoes or something, but I feel like I've already probably wasted a lot of beans, it'd take a while to cook up some potatoes, I might just have to let this one go... Figures. I seem to have a talent for screwing up even the simplest of recipes. Always in creative ways though, so I should get points for that, right?

[Phmcw]

When in doubt, add cheese and bacon.

[Sappho]

I'm trying to feed a vegetarian, so that's out.

[Dwarmin]

Well, if you never tried, you would never learn anything. 

I think some sugar would help.

@Phmcw: Agreed. But I think Sappho might be a vegetarian, or he's just trying to make a vegetarian dish. *wild hunch*

Ninja edit @Sappho. Totally called it. 

[Phmcw]

I'm trying to feed a vegetarian, so that's out.

Hmmm... tofu? Something with taste to cover the soy sauce... and the fact you drowned the rest in water and bread crumb.

If I were you I'd add sauté tofu to the mix. Or another meat-like thing.

[Sappho]

My flatmate just came home and I asked him and he made a face and said "more beans," then laughed at me for not figuring this out myself. Then left again to go drinking with his friends before I could ask him if sugar would work.

He's a very good cook. If it's rescueable, he'll rescue it. But I've decided there's already too much dip and I don't want to add a whole second can of beans, even though they are very good beans and have a nice flavor, because there's no way in hell I'm going to eat all this dip myself and I doubt my flatmate will help, he usually refuses to eat my food because it is not very good. I don't want to waste more beans.

[Phmcw]

My flatmate just came home and I asked him and he made a face and said "more beans," then laughed at me for not figuring this out myself. Then left again to go drinking with his friends before I could ask him if sugar would work.

He's a very good cook. If it's rescueable, he'll rescue it. But I've decided there's already too much dip and I don't want to add a whole second can of beans, even though they are very good beans and have a nice flavor, because there's no way in hell I'm going to eat all this dip myself and I doubt my flatmate will help, he usually refuses to eat my food because it is not very good. I don't want to waste more beans.

What do you have at hand?

[Weary Exile]

Use the portion you already made as a rice topping, then act like this is what you meant to do all along.