# Making quickbread. Forgot the salt.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-quickbread-forgot-the-salt/800840
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 5, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-quickbread-forgot-the-salt/800840 "2017-11-05T23:05:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-quickbread-forgot-the-salt/800840/1 "2017-11-05T23:05:21Z")
I’m making a Cranberry-Orange quickbread and it’s been in the oven for 15 minutes now. Just realized I forgot to add the 1/4 teaspoon of salt. :smack: Is the salt essential?
Will the bread turn out at least okay, if not delicious?
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-quickbread-forgot-the-salt/800840/2 "2017-11-05T23:06:54Z")
It should be fine. It may rise a little more than expected, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
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### Author:  [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-quickbread-forgot-the-salt/800840/3 "2017-11-05T23:16:28Z")
Thanks. That puts my mind at ease.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-quickbread-forgot-the-salt/800840/4 "2017-11-06T00:00:22Z")
Salt is important in yeast breads because it controls the growth of the yeast. In quickbreads, which rely on baking soda and baking powder for leavening, salt is there mainly for flavor.
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### Author:  [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-quickbread-forgot-the-salt/800840/5 "2017-11-06T00:01:14Z")
Are you going to serve it buttered? Maybe a sprinkle of flaky salt on the butter?
I make no-knead bread quite often, and forgot the salt once. It tasted like sadness.
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### Author:  [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-quickbread-forgot-the-salt/800840/6 "2017-11-06T01:31:23Z")
Well, it’s finished now and it did rise more than usual. Tastes pretty good too. But next time I’ll remember the salt.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-quickbread-forgot-the-salt/800840/7 "2017-11-06T01:37:15Z")
> [@araminty](#):
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> Are you going to serve it buttered? Maybe a sprinkle of flaky salt on the butter?
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> I make no-knead bread quite often, and forgot the salt once. It tasted like sadness.
I’ve made bread many, many times, and I’ve one or twice forgotten the salt. My experience was as yours. It went straight into the garbage. Looked beautiful, tasted like nothing. Adding the salt after the fact did not help. Looks like the OP was fine with it, but it didn’t work out in my cases.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-quickbread-forgot-the-salt/800840/8 "2017-11-06T04:21:31Z")
Salt is important to the flavor of most breads, but I think this was a sweet bread, in which case the salt wouldn’t be as important.