@brownbutterbakesleeds: salt is one of the most underrated ingredients in baking and i will die on this hill 🧂 because it’s (usually) not there to make your cookies salty, it’s there to make EVERYTHING taste more like itself. scientifically, salt enhances flavour perception, balances sweetness, helps reduce bitterness, and can even affect gluten development and structure in doughs. which is why a cookie without enough salt can taste weirdly flat even if it contains loads of chocolate, vanilla, brown butter, or caramel. and this is also why flaky salt on top of cookies works so well. those little bursts of salt make the sweet flavours taste even deeper and richer by contrast 🤎 also, recipes that say “salt optional” are incorrect and i shan’t be elaborating further 🫪 i’ve pinned a lil recipe in the comments where salt makes a big difference to the final flavour if you want to test the science yourself 🧈 #brownbutterbakes #bakingscienceexplained #salt #homebaking #startingabusiness

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