Salt Fat Acid Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking is a 2017 cookbook written by American chef Samin Nosrat and illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton.

A reference book, the cookbook is focused on teaching techniques and structured around the four titular elements: Salt, Fat, Acid, and Heat.

Saveur described it as a "refreshing break from this contemporary formula" of "cleanly laid-out recipe facing an artful image of salad or toast".

Throughout the process, Nosrat would note which concepts were easier to convey visually and started to design diagrams to help explain them.

"[3] Rosner said that is the rare reference book which is meant to be read straight-through and which "flat-out teach[es] you, from the ground up, how to be a good cook.