Only if adding salt was somehow forbidden, would push the boundaries of known human experience, or playfully exciting in some way. I do think the Chefs on Planet Green's Future Food are hackers in their own way: http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tv/future-food/meet-chefs.h... - a while ago I saw them cook food with liquid nitrogen and preparing numerous dishes using nothing but road-side weeds spiked with miracle fruit.