• Lucas
• 05 May, 2026
• • Flake Salt
  • Maldon Salt
  • Finishing Salt
  • Cooking Ingredients
  • Salt Types
  • Seasoning
  • Ingredient Basics

Is Using Expensive Flake Salt for Cooking a Waste of Money?

You’ve done it. The steak is perfect—a deep, mahogany crust, a beautiful medium-rare blush inside, rested just right. You grab your salt to give it that final, crucial seasoning. But your hand hovers between the big box of kosher salt and that fancy, smaller box of Maldon sea salt flakes, the one that cost you seven dollars. Does it really matter which one you use?