Is Your Salt Too Bouncy? Check the Brand
iamond Crystal has long been our favorite brand of kosher salt, not because of its flavor, but because of the way it feels. Diamond Crystal has fragile, hollow, concave grains formed through evaporation, while its main commercial rival, Morton Coarse Kosher Salt, has dense, flat flakes created with rollers. Diamond Crystal’s structure not only makes it easier to pinch, break up, and distribute evenly but also it adheres to food more readily. When showered onto a piece of meat, more of the heavy, dense Morton flakes bounce off the meat than the