When and How Do You Salt Your Food While Cooking?

[Renn]

I've been taught to salt all the way through the cooking process, from beginning to end to acheive a "depth of salt" rather than say waiting until the end to salt dishes. Of course this sounds like a recipe for overly salty food, but really, it helps to achieve a more precise final salinity, along with brightening components individually. For you photographers/post-processing folks out there, it's like adjusting the saturation on individual color channels rather than the overall saturation.

[Chris Amirault]

Agree with you, Renn. Salting throughout the process also means better distribution of salt and much less chance of unwanted salty pockets or surfaces.