Sea salt vs. kosher salt.

"BigBadBubbas" wrote in message
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I think the reference to "trace impurities" refers to "trace minerals".
Pure salt is NaCl. Highly pure salt is Kosher NaCl[I think, though it
probably has something to do with the way it's produced]. Sea Salt is NaCl
mostly, with a tiny % of other salts.

We love sea salt in our home.

Kent
 
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:33:43 -0800, Kent wrote:


Pure and Highly Pure?!? Have you been taking lessons off of Marty
Sauk?

Isn't that like Pregnant and Highly Pregnant?

-sw
 
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"Kent" wrote:


Regular salt and kosher salt are both purified salt. Kosher salt is
produced in flakes, rather than granules. This makes it more suitable
for its intended purpose, which is koshering.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 03:23:37 -0500, TFM? wrote:


Heavy smoker? There Kathleen goes again implying that she knows me.
I smoke less than a pack of cigarettes a week, and have posted that
fact here several times over the last year or two. I inhale more
exhaust from cars than I do cigarette smoke, you dumb bitch. And I
still have far more taste than you.

Just because you saw me once 4 years ago doesn't exactly make you an
expert on my life, or that you "know me in person". Stop playing the
jilted lover and move on with your life without pretending you know
mine - because you don't know anything about me.

We can go for Round #3 here in the newsgroups again if you'd like.


And all that mayo souce.

-sw
 
On Mar 1, 2:57?am, Sqwertz wrote:
But she has such refined tastes in violin music. Electric violin
doing a rock music version of a Beethoven *tune* in a shopping mall is
like totally "awe inspiring," dude.

--Bryan
 
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[email protected] wrote:


Kosher salt is table salt, not iodized and is a special grind suitable for
Kosher processing. Otherwise it is ordinary table salt, pure sodium
chloride, which can be had in a variety of grinds.

Sea salt can likewise be had in any grind you like, but there is a variety
available in more exotic (i.e., costly) variations in addition to "generic"
sea salt. It has a somewhat more intense flavor than plain table salt due to
various other minerals found in it.

Sea salt is considered more healthful because its stronger taste supposedly
allows a person to use less and get the same or at least similar effect on
taste as pure table salt while consuming less sodium.

MartyB
 
On 3/1/2011 10:46 AM, Nunya Bidnits wrote:
Kosher salt is usually pure sodium chloride but Morton's certified
Kosher salt does contain a flowing agent, probably sodium silicate. I
rather doubt that sea salt gives a stronger salty taste than standard
salt but the various colored salts do taste a bit different, depending
on the type and amount of mud that is sold with them.

For myself, I use standard iodized salt for most purposes tho I sprinkle
Kosher salt on vegetables before grilling and use it as bed for high
temperature baked salmon (500F) because of its large particle size.

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James Silverton, Potomac

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On Feb 28, 6:01?pm, "BigBadBubbas" wrote:

It should say on the box.

One of the big industries in the South Bay was production of salt by
evaporating sea water. Most of the impurities were washed out of the
salt as part of the manufacturing process, but brines produced with
the salt were cloudy, not clear.
 
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James Silverton wrote:


Correct, I shouldn't have used the term "pure".


It's not mud. It contains additional minerals which were deposited out of
sea water along with the salt which are not eliminated through refining by
processors. Mud implies wet earth, which includes organic compounds in
various stages of decomposition.
 
James Silverton wrote:

I wonder if most products are so heavily salted they say it has sea salt
so they can use less and most folks just accept the claim without being
able to tell?


We use Lite Salt at the table. 50-50 potassium and sodium salt. It
partially makes up for the large amount of all sodium salt we get while
eating out.
 
On 3/1/2011 3:15 PM, Nunya Bidnits wrote:
I've seen evaporating ponds in Hawaii and, even if the liquid and salt
are colored, they just seem to be incorporating local powdered rock. I
guess that constitutes minerals.

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James Silverton, Potomac

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James Silverton wrote:

Pure dried seawater contains several salts
which are removed when making pure sodium
chloride, such as salts of potassium and bromine.
They contribute flavors generally described
as "metallic" or "off-flavor".
 
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