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What brand of Kosher salt do you use when testing recipes?
Historically, we developed our recipes with Diamond Crystal, but we switched to Morton in 2021. We believe this makes it harder to accidentally oversalt if using Morton. If you're using Diamond Crystal kosher salt you'll want to use 2 teaspoons of Diamond Crystal for each teaspoon of Morton's called for in our recipes. That's because Morton's is smaller and denser than Diamond Crystal and, therefore, 1 teaspoon contains 5 grams to the 3 grams in a teaspoon of Diamond Crystal. For more details on our conversion, you can read the article here.
At this point, all of the recipes on the website have been converted to Morton's coarse kosher. Any recipes in material printed since March/April 2021 have been developed using Morton's coarse kosher salt. If you have cookbooks or physical copies of the magazines that you cook from directly that were printed prior to that date, you will need to make the conversion from Diamond Crystal to Morton's coarse kosher.
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Hi Patricia -
Historically, we developed our recipes with Diamond Crystal, but we switched to Morton in 2021. We believe this makes it harder to accidentally oversalt if using Morton. If you're using Diamond Crystal kosher salt you'll want to use 2 teaspoons of Diamond Crystal for each teaspoon of Morton's called for in our recipes. That's because Morton's is smaller and denser than Diamond Crystal and, therefore, 1 teaspoon contains 5 grams to the 3 grams in a teaspoon of Diamond Crystal. For more details on our conversion, you can read the article here.
Best,
The Milk Street Cooking Team
So we should adjust accordingly depending upon the when the recipe was written?
Hi Cheryl -
At this point, all of the recipes on the website have been converted to Morton's coarse kosher. Any recipes in material printed since March/April 2021 have been developed using Morton's coarse kosher salt. If you have cookbooks or physical copies of the magazines that you cook from directly that were printed prior to that date, you will need to make the conversion from Diamond Crystal to Morton's coarse kosher.
Hope that helps!
Best,
The Milk Street Cooking Team