What’s on the Thai Balance poster
A 5-row table: Taste · From · Adjust with.
The four elements, adjusted to taste in almost every dish.
- Salty — Fish sauce, soy — Fish sauce
- Sour — Lime, tamarind — Lime juice
- Sweet — Palm sugar — Palm sugar
- Hot — Fresh and dried chilli — Chilli
- Aromatic — Lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime — Fresh paste
Galangal is not ginger and lime leaves are not lime zest. The substitutions are commonly suggested and genuinely change the dish.
Questions about the Thai Balance poster
- What’s on the Thai Balance poster?
- A 5-row table: Taste · From · Adjust with. The four elements, adjusted to taste in almost every dish. Salty — Fish sauce, soy — Fish sauce; Sour — Lime, tamarind — Lime juice; Sweet — Palm sugar — Palm sugar; Hot — Fresh and dried chilli — Chilli; Aromatic — Lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime — Fresh paste. Galangal is not ginger and lime leaves are not lime zest. The substitutions are commonly suggested and genuinely change the dish.
- Who is the Thai Balance poster for?
- Thai Balance belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning cuisines can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Thai Balance poster?
- Taste and adjust at the end. Every dish is balanced by tasting, not by measuring. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Thai Balance belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Thai Balance?
- Breads, Chinese Pantry and French Foundations sit alongside Thai Balance in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.BreadsChinese PantryFrench Foundations
- Is the Thai Balance poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Thai Balance downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Thai Balance poster print at?
- Thai Balance is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Thai Balance loses nothing.Printing guide
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