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Recipes and notes

How to cook with flakes, fine and smoked salt, and what is happening on the pans this month.

A seared rib steak on a black board with small heaps of coarse salt in each corner

Kitchen guide

How to salt a steak, and when

Forty-five minutes ahead with fine salt, a crush of flakes as it rests. The two-salt method our chef customers use, and why the timing matters.

28 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
A scored country loaf on a wooden board with a small dish of white salt beside it

Recipe

A weekend sourdough that shows off the salt

A country loaf with 2% fine sea salt in the dough and flakes pressed into the crust. The recipe the bakery down the road uses on Saturdays.

14 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Dried red chillies spilling from a glass jar beside clear crystals of coarse salt

Recipe

Chilli salt in ten minutes

Dried chillies, a dry pan and a jar of coarse salt. A house seasoning for eggs, grilled corn and the rim of a Bloody Mary.

30 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Rectangular salt pans seen from above, their brine tinted pale pink between earth banks

Notes from the marsh

Why the pans turn pink in August

Every summer someone rings to ask if the marsh is polluted. It is the opposite — a pink pan is the surest sign the salt is nearly ready.

12 Jul 2026 · 5 min read