A bowl of Maldon sea salt, aka finishing salt, rests in a bed of spilled Maldon salt - Quanthem/Getty Images There are many common varieties of salt, from the table to blends, like garlic salt, and ...

For an ingredient with such a small footprint, there is a whole lot of ground to cover when it comes to salt. How much to use? What type? Should you even use salt at all? Just as important as whether ...

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Cooking steak on a solid salt rock turns seasoning into the cooking surface itself. The method introduces extreme heat ...

In the kitchen, salt is taste, texture and technique. Salt enhances the flavor of food, can change the consistency of food and is used in culinary applications such as brining. Salt is indispensable ...

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Walk into any grocery store or gourmet shop and the variety of salts can be dizzying. Colorful paper boxes, large plastic tubs, palm-sized glass jars, even transportable tins for single servings of ...

It’s a pair like no other. Salt and pepper are so essential to cooking that one of the chefs even joked that culinary school is about paying big money to learn how to use them. I’ve always been pretty ...

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Salting vegetables before cooking them is a great way to draw out water, making for a better texture and more condensed flavor. This step is often done with vegetables with high moisture content, like ...