Salted homemade chocolate chip cookies?

2012? Something like that. It came with salted butter caramel being so huge. You're supposed to use large flaked maldon salt, not table salt. Yeah, plus the popularity of pink salt, people think it looks cute.

Eww...salt on chocolate chip cookies? I'm with you on this one. I really can't explain why except it's just another food fad gone amuck.

People are GROSS

Hm...I started seeing salted caramels a few years ago. I can see a teeny amount of additional salt being yummy. Would love to try smoked salt cookies.

As for the salt in the recipe, it IS necessary for a proper balance. It keeps the cookies from being too sweet.

i don't know when, but salt brings out the sweetness of the chocolate, similar to sea salt ice cream. it's really quite good if not over done, especially with bigger chunks of salt

I blame Himalayan pink salt for this trend. Froufrou fancy salts morphed into salted caramel and suddenly everyone's adding crunchy salt to desserts.

There's a time and place for feeling the crunchy salt on your food but ffs, not every food, not every day.

It started about five years ago. It's a matter of opinion whether they're ruined or not. In my opinion, the salt makes them taste better. There's no right or wrong way to make them.

the whole sweet/salty thing has gone nuts...I have tasted expensive "salted" caramels that tasted just like the unsalted ones...

I prefer my sweet salty fix to be had by eating peanuts and candy corn together. In the fall, during Halloween time..then I am over it.