Choose coarse kosher salt for more even seasoning
Use coarse kosher salt instead of fine table salt so you can distribute seasoning evenly and avoid concentrated salty spots.
Coarse grains are easier to pinch and scatter over food, giving you better control. Fine table salt tends to clump and concentrate in small areas, making it easier to oversalt parts of a dish.
The short version
- Coarse kosher salt is easier to spread evenly than fine table salt.
- Fine salt can concentrate and oversalt one area.
What goes wrong
Seasoning with very fine table salt and ending up with salty patches
Switch to coarse kosher salt for pinch seasoning and more even coverage.
Why it works
Larger crystals spread more predictably and dissolve a bit more slowly, reducing localized over-seasoning compared with very fine salt.
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