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 ...

1. Salt only makes food taste salty. 2. Different types of salt are interchangeable. 3. Adding salt to home-cooked food is a major source of dietary sodium. 4. Salt isn’t important in baking. 5. Salt ...

“Salt is easily the most important thing chefs keep in the kitchen,” says Robert Hartman, chef de cuisine at Saint Theo’s restaurant in New York City. It helps bring out the natural flavors in food, ...

Alongside pepper, salt is the most utilized — and useful — seasoning in the kitchen. The tiny white granules not only enhance flavor but can also mask any funky notes and bitterness in food. Sodium ...

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Have you been using salt wrong all your life? Are you marinating too long, thinking that it’s necessary for flavoring? Find out which cooking techniques are the subject of heated debates among ...

TikTok videos showing how to fry food in salt have gone viral, but this cooking method is far from new. Hot salt or hot sand frying has been used for centuries in Asia as a more affordable, convenient ...

Salt is a staple in almost every kitchen around the world, because the simple mineral just makes food taste better. If you’ve had the misfortune of tasting barbecue without salt, you understand.

A simple pinch of salt really can change the way your eggs cook. This age old kitchen habit actually hides a fascinating scientific mechanism. Here is why this classic grandmother’s trick is firmly ...