Kitchen Secrets: How to Salt Foods Like a Chef
By: Sheri Wetherell
Published: July 5, 2014

You’d think something as easy as applying salt to a dish wouldn’t have a special technique, but in fact, in order to get just the right amount of seasoning - not too much, not too little - there is a best way.
In this latest episode of Foodista’s Kitchen Secrets, the Chef in the Hat Thierry Rautureau, owner of Luc and Loulay Kitchen + Bar in Seattle, gives us the inside scoop of how to salt your dishes. Hint: raise your arm higher! Watch this short video below and learn how to salt your dishes like a chef! Be sure to subscribe to Foodista's Kitchen Secrets video series for more helpful how-to tips!

Video Transcription
	So, when I put salt on a piece of fish, or any piece of meat for that matter, I'm always a little bit higher in the sky because I like to make sure my salt gets spread. I don't like to just go like this because that's too much salt in one area, and I'm afraid the rest is not going to get it. When you sprinkle from high above, you have a much better tendency to get the whole piece of salmon, to have a beautiful spread, evenly of salt.