Apartment Therapy Tagged: salt

Bee House Saltbox

We are on the hunt for a good salt container. Our current jar of salt from Trader Joe's is impossibly difficult to use; the salt sticks and clumps in the tiny opening. We've oversalted omelets and oat...

Ingredient Spotlight: Salt Cod

Called baccala in Italy, bacalao in Spain, and klippfisk in Scandinavia, salt cod has been a cooking staple in world cuisines for hundreds of years. Here in the United States, if you didn't grow up ea...

Storing Staples: Are Your Salt and Pepper Out in the Open?

While we're talking about leaving things out on the counter, here's another ingredient that sits on ours: Kosher salt and pepper in little dishes next to the stovetop. This is one of the first things ...

Quick Tip: Salt As You Go

Most recipes don't mention adding salt until near the very end, but you'll get better flavor in you finished dish if you salt as you go. Why? How? What? Read on!...

Online Store Review: Didi Davis Foods

We stumbled upon Didi Davis and her line of artisan sugar blends, salts, oils, and other condiments when she appeared at the Copley Square farmer's market at the tail end of the season a few years bac...

Food Science: Salting to Taste

Salt to taste. Such a simple and innocent instruction! We've read those words a million times over the years without thinking anything of it. But lately we started wondering what this really means. ...

Food Science: How Does Brining Work?

We've talked about how much we love brining lean cuts of meat to infuse extra moisture and flavor before cooking. This technique is widely used in traditional Scandinavian cuisine and has definitely...

Straight Up: How to Rim a Cocktail Glass for Margaritas - and More

It's a beautiful warm day, perfect for the cooling tang of a Margarita. You have everything you need to make a top-shelf, hand-crafted drink: fresh limes for juicing, Cointreau, a good quality “silv...

Good Question: What's the Best Pepper Mill?

A question of pepper mills, from reader Robyn: I am perplexed by the assortment of different pepper mills out there. I am a fairly serious cook and my peppermill gets a workout (I have a terribly j...

Pantry Basics: Five Essential Ingredients for Baking

Like pans and prep tools there is a dizzying array of baking ingredients available. Even a small grocery store will offer at least five kinds of flour, four kinds of sugar and lots of other things t...

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