Any chef or confident cook will tell you that knowing how to season with salt is as crucial as any other technique you will learn. You may have already mastered many cooking techniques, but if your food isn’t seasoned properly with salt, it won’t matter – the flavors will be bland and unappealing.

This is particularly important when preparing whole foods on a plant-based diet. When you cook whole foods from scratch, salt and other seasonings are essential to make food come to life. When you don’t depend on packaged and processed food, it’s essential to be able to use quality salt properly to achieve proper flavor development. And learning how to season properly, from the beginning, will help ensure that your cooking is delicious.

In this lesson, you will learn about the types of salt which are commonly used during the cooking process and how salt affects food. You will also learn how to season with salt and when to salt food during the cooking process, so you can bring out the best flavor in your food.