Salting is harder than blackjacking
I am not a great fan of card games. Blackjack, for instance, is one of that games I only know from the movies. As long as I understood it you take one card and your opponent another (of course) one. Then you can choose to take other cards up to the point you think you have more points than opponent but not exceeding twenty-one. If you exceed twenty-one, you're out.
So if you take a seven you have seven points. Then you take a nine and you’ll have sixteen. At this point you assess the probability of your opponent stop and stand with less than sixteen versus the probability of taking a card higher than five and exceeding the twenty-one deadly limit. It is like salting your food. After you take a card you cannot give it back; after salting your food you cannot take it back.
But I think salting is harder. Firstly, you don’t have a card with a value greater than twenty-one in the pack, so you have the opportunity to choose if you'll take another one or not. When salting you may overdose right away in your first hand and ruin everything before having a chance of trying it and noticing that something is wrong. Besides, in the game you have your friends to gently remember you that it is your turn to take a card, while in the kitchen I’m usually alone and sometimes forget to salt the food. Additionally, you must consider that other ingredients are previously salted as deceptive cards with hidden potential for destruction, so it is better to check how salted your food is after all ingredients are in place before putting more salt on it.
Still another problem is each person's individual perception of taste. You’re there happily boasting your twenty-one with your salting cards but your guest thinks you have only fifteen. Or twenty-five. Then your chips are gone.
So if you take a seven you have seven points. Then you take a nine and you’ll have sixteen. At this point you assess the probability of your opponent stop and stand with less than sixteen versus the probability of taking a card higher than five and exceeding the twenty-one deadly limit. It is like salting your food. After you take a card you cannot give it back; after salting your food you cannot take it back.
But I think salting is harder. Firstly, you don’t have a card with a value greater than twenty-one in the pack, so you have the opportunity to choose if you'll take another one or not. When salting you may overdose right away in your first hand and ruin everything before having a chance of trying it and noticing that something is wrong. Besides, in the game you have your friends to gently remember you that it is your turn to take a card, while in the kitchen I’m usually alone and sometimes forget to salt the food. Additionally, you must consider that other ingredients are previously salted as deceptive cards with hidden potential for destruction, so it is better to check how salted your food is after all ingredients are in place before putting more salt on it.
Still another problem is each person's individual perception of taste. You’re there happily boasting your twenty-one with your salting cards but your guest thinks you have only fifteen. Or twenty-five. Then your chips are gone.
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