Salt

Culinary Salt for Baking, Finishing, Garnish

Salt is known as one of the oldest ingredients known in the culinary arts. Professional chefs and bakers have long known its many, many uses in cooking, baking, confectionery, and preservation. From simple seasoning in savory dishes and marinades to providing a beautiful finishing touch on elevated desserts, culinary salt is so useful that it made up part of the pay for soldiers in ancient Rome, giving the world the word "salary." Sea salt, in particular, comes in a variety of colors, flavors, and textures, all with different applications in cooked dishes, baked goods, sauces, and food preservation. From visual appeal to fabulous crunchy or subtly dissolving textures, finishing salts enhance and elevate savory recipes as well as sweet confections and desserts. Flavored and infused salts incorporate subtle notes that add depth or brightness as needed. OliveNation offers a wide selection of culinary salts that allow home or professional bakers and chefs to ensure that their culinary creations have just the right touch for perfect seasoning, every time.

Difference Between Commercial Salt, Sea Salt & Finishing Salt

Cutting salt intake in diets is a perennial hot topic in the culinary world. As with almost all seasonings, a little goes a long way and moderate, mindful consumption of this naturally-occurring ingredient can help balance health benefits and flavor enhancement. Most reports do not make a distinction between natural sea salt and commercially produced seasoning salt, which accounts for most of the salt consumed today. Unfortunately, most commercial salt is refined and stripped of potassium, calcium, magnesium, and other minerals, while iodine compounds and various anti-caking compounds are added. Sea salts, on the other hand, retain all the natural compounds that make this versatile ingredient a fantastic flavor enhancer, food preserver, and part of a healthy diet.