Help the frantic chef scold his new assistant by choosing the correct word to complete the sentence.

"You completely ruined the soup! You added way too _______ salt to the broth!"

The correct answer is much.

"Salt" is an uncountable noun. When we want to say there is an excessive amount of an uncountable noun, we use the phrase "too much." "Many" is only used for plural countable nouns (like "apples" or "spoons"), and "a lot" would need the preposition "of" to connect to "salt" (though we don't say "too a lot of").