No salt thanks
⚪ Last updated 2016⚠️ Install Order · 6 steps
Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 3.7% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #6 of 24 Items and Objects - World mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Tired of having to need some precious salt pile in order to roast your meat in the wilderness? Time has come to learn how to cook without added salt! Healthier and cheaper! Although you can still add some salt on your food later…
This mod adds a salt-free version of each vanilla cooking recipes, less efficient in terms of effects but cheaper, and it also adds another recipe to salt those bland meals and turn them into vanilla meals later.
This mod add salt-free recipes from:
VANILLA RECIPES
- []Beef, chicken, goat, horker, horse, mammoth, pheasant, rabbit, venison and salmon roasting []Cabbage-potato and tomato soup brewing []Apple cabbage, beef and venison stew cooking
DLC RECIPES
- []Boar roasting []Chicken dumpling cooking []Cabbage stew cooking
- []USSEP is required, it fixes a lot of various bugs and adds the boar meat roasting []Any version of Skyrim SE should work properly as Bethesda is not going to change Skyrim SE cooking recipes anytime soon anyway.
MANUAL INSTALLATION
- []Download the mod archive []Extract NoSaltThanks.esp in your “… /Skyrim Special Edition/Data” folder. []Activate it in your load order. []Sell as Lake Front property []???? []Enjoy!
- []Download the mod via NMM []Install the mod in NMM []Activate it in your load order []Enjoy!
No salt thanks removes the salt requirement from all vanilla and DLC cooking recipes in Skyrim Special Edition, adding salt-free versions that are cheaper but less effective, plus a recipe to salt them back. Requires USSEP. A quality-of-life mod for survival players who hate hunting for salt piles.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- No more hunting for salt piles just to cook basic meat—huge QoL win for survival playthroughs
- Community-trusted with 469 endorsements and over 12k downloads, so it's been tested by plenty of players
- Covers all the important recipes, including DLC ones, so you're not left with gaps
⚠️ Cons
- Salt-free meals are less effective than their salted counterparts, so you're trading convenience for weaker buffs
- Requires USSEP, so if you don't have that patch installed, you'll need to grab it first
- Last updated in 2016, so it might have compatibility issues with newer mods that alter cooking recipes
For Skyrim SE players who are tired of salt being a bottleneck in survival or roleplay playthroughs. If you're a completionist chef who wants to cook everything without grinding for salt, this is a must-have. Skip if you want cooking to stay challenging or if you don't use USSEP.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure USSEP is installed and loaded before this mod, since it's a hard requirement.
- If you're using a mod manager like Vortex or MO2, just drop the ESP into your load order—no special setup needed.
- The salt-back recipe lets you convert your bland meals into vanilla ones later, so don't worry about losing out on effects permanently.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- Helldragger
- Version
- 1.1.1
- Downloads
- 12,550
- Endorsements
- 469
- Category
- Items and Objects - World
- Created
- 11/11/2016
- Updated
- 11/13/2016
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