Imagine a kitchen without salt and you’ll probably end up with some seriously bland hypothetical food. Salt is an epic essential, key for cooking techniques such as brining, curing, and preserving.

With so many new options on the market, shopping for salt isn’t quite what it used to be. Grocery store aisles are filled with so many varieties, from pink salt to flaky finishing salt and everything ...

“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, ...

Celtic sea salt, Kala Namak, smoked salts, and low-sodium alternatives. Each type of salt has a distinct mineral profile, flavour, culinary uses, and potential health impact. Understanding the ...

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So, you thought salt was salt, right? Well, all salt is still sodium chloride, but salt comes from different sources in the world and have different textures and subtleties of flavor. There are three ...

I’ve been a Maldon flaky salt evangelist ever since I started following Wishbone Kitchen’s Meredith Hayden on TikTok, sprinkling it with reverence over everything from pan-seared steak to sliced ...

Celtic salt is sea salt. It’s also called “sel gris” or “gray salt” because of its gray color, which comes from the extra minerals: magnesium, calcium, potassium, zinc, and iron. A grain of Celtic ...

When people think of foods related to type 2 diabetes, they often think of sugar (even though the evidence for that is still not clear). Now, a new study from the US points the finger at salt. The ...