Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt,48 Ounce (Pack of 2)

OMG, I hate that Diamond Crystal changed their salt and I can no longer find this in stores. Some say the change is just the packaging but many of us Ina Recipe cooks feel differently- so here I am buying salt online. If that’s what it takes to get this particular salt then that’s what I’m going to do, forever. It DOES make a difference!

This is "THE" Kosher Salt, as recommended by multiple cooking sites. New box, same goodness.

Not Cheap but good salt.

They cancelled my order because they were out of stock. It wasn’t stated that it was out of order when I placed an order. Otherwise, it would have been great. I love this korsher salt.

I have recently gotten into home cooking and have been going deep on Instagram and YouTube for recipes. Every single chef and recipe developer always picks Diamond Crystal as their go to salt for most things in the kitchen.There’s a reason everybody recommends this, and it’s because it’s just the best. Fluffy enough to control and not over salt, and just down right beautiful. Highly recommend.

This stuff is the best. Kosher salt is just salt with no addives (e.g., Morton has added iodine - which is not needed if you eat a balanced diet - and anti-caking agents).Be aware there are two types of kosher salt: coarse and flake. This type here is flake. What’s the diff? The coarse stuff (which is often in supermarkets) are very large crystals. Added to wet recipes (e.g., soups/sauces) either type is fine. As a finishing salt you definitely want the smaller flake type. Why? Coarse crystals are crunchy and are unevenly spaced on your food which leaves some parts of your food saltier than others. This type of salt is rolled into flakes. Advantage? Flakes stick to food better and won’t fall off (really good on meat). Also, the flakes are smaller than standard salt. That means that if a recipe calls for one teaspoon of regular salt you will need two teaspoons of this kosher type because the flakes take up more space than stansard salt, so it’s sort of fluffier. So put in double the amount of this in recipes. Culinarily, this means that you can get more even coverage on your food and will not fall off or roll leaving you with inconsistent coverage. Another advantage is because it’s half as salty volume-wise it’s easier to control your salt level on your food and harder to accidentally over-salt your food. Thus, if you want a light amount of salt it’s easier to add just a little to help taste, but easier to have less salt if you’re trying to limit salt in your diet. This also means that beceause you need twice as much as regular salt you can more evenly cover your food. Regular and coarse salts, for example, when put on steaks prior to grilling will fall off leaving you with uneven coverage. This flake kosher salt - being flatter - will adhere better to the moisture on the surface of meat like a magnet.

Thomas Keller raves, in his books, about Diamond Crystal Kosher salt.Chefs in general prefer a kosher-style salt. If you do, yourself, keep Kosher, then note that not all "kosher-style" salts are actually certified Kosher, but Diamond Crystal is.Kosher-style salt measures by volume (i.e. in teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, etc.) about 20% less than typical (e.g. Morton's) table salt. The reason for this is simply that the coarser, "chunkier," irregular, larger pieces don't pack as tightly as the fine and uniform bits in table-style salt do. The result is that if you are making professional-style recipes using table-style salt, then you are adding about 20% too much salt. This really affects flavor.Kosher-style salt is not iodinized. This means a purer salt flavor. It also doesn't give you iodine, a vital nutrient. Most of us now eat a diet that has iodine in it.Kosher-style salt does not include additives to prevent clumping and assure that, "when it rains, it pours." So you may experience clumps... which will be easy to break up. Leaving out the anti-clumping, free-flow additives just gives a cleaner, purer salt flavor.The one thing to be aware of is that this salt is intended for use in professional kitchens. It comes in a big box with no little spout to pour in easily into a small container. In a domestic kitchen, this big box is going to stored in your pantry and you will need some sort of "salt cellar" container to use it from.

Kosher salt is bigger fluffier lighter grains than table salt so it looks like you use a lot more. By weight, though, table salt and kosher salt are just the same saltiness. You can not pick up table salt between thumb and fingers and artistically sprinkle it on the food you're cooking though. Kosher salt brings theatricality to your cooking. You go through a box pretty quickly though. A three pound box of table salt would be tiny compared to these three pound boxes of kosher salt. I save money by buying two three pound boxes at a time and the extra one would keep forever so in a few months I just open the next. Win. Win. Win.

Love this salt, its the best.

Very big boxes!

I was expecting it to be more flaky, but it works very well for pickling.

Meh. No difference between this and regular salt except the price. I won't buy again. Its just a fad

Good for salting joints of meat.