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Salt-Roasted Potatoes

By Claire Saffitz

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Photo of a bowl of saltroasted fingerling potatoes a crispy potato recipe where you bake the potatoes on a bed of salt.
Photo by Alex Lau

Remember those pink salt blocks everyone was searing steaks on for a minute? A bit of kosher salt performs a similar function: transmitting heat.

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