Salted Caramel, Smooth or Crunchy?

Published on Thursday, February 4, 2010, by CHOW Video Team / Edit Post

Salted Caramel, Smooth or Crunchy?

Nina Wanat, founder of and chocolatier at BonBonBar, says that the texture of your salted caramel is completely within your control. It just depends on when in the process you add the salt.

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  • I saw that episode too. The difference is that all the salt is on top of the caramels done Alton's way, and when stirred in at the last moment it distributes all through the candy, giving you a bit of crunch with each bite. It is important that table salt not be used for this purpose though. You have to use either sea salt or Kosher salt. I like the 'smoked' sea salt, it adds a VERY interesting...+READ

    I saw that episode too. The difference is that all the salt is on top of the caramels done Alton's way, and when stirred in at the last moment it distributes all through the candy, giving you a bit of crunch with each bite. It is important that table salt not be used for this purpose though. You have to use either sea salt or Kosher salt. I like the 'smoked' sea salt, it adds a VERY interesting flavour.-COLLAPSE

  • Good Eats has a new episode (as of early March 2010) where Alton describes salty-sweet foods. He shows how to make caramel and the salting technique he uses is to sprinkle salt after the caramel has been poured and has rested for a period of time.