Sea salt vs. kosher salt.

On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 14:15:47 -0600 in rec.food.cooking, "Nunya
Bidnits" wrote,

I think "mud" is the perfect word for it. "Mud" means different
things to different people; to the contractors I used to know it
meant wet cement or mortar. In sea salt it means additional
substances carried by the sea water, of which the consumer and
probably the producer don't even know what substances there are. Sea
water also includes organic compounds in various stages of
decomposition. From time to time the health department closes the
beaches to swimmers because of those substances.
 
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David Harmon wrote:


So are you saying that's an industry/accepted descriptive term for
additional substances in sea salt, or just that it's what you would call it?
Contractor's terminology notwithstanding, in general, and I believe to most
people, they expect mud to contain earth, therefore decomposed organic
ingredients.

I don't think any company selling food products for human consumption is
doing so without any knowledge or analysis of what is in the product they
are selling.



That's a huge and rather illogical leap from there to presuming that the
same stuff is included in the products sold for human consumption which are
labeled "sea salt." But if you have some cites I'd be willing to look,
otherwise I'm frankly not buying the presumption that sea salt is sold
containing decomposing organic material or that the packagers don't know
what is in it.

Also organic compounds in forming rock are eventually washed free of actual
organic compounds and are replaced by minerals, sometimes even retaining the
shape of organisms, which is where you get fossils.

MartyB
 
Bryan wrote about Sycophant:


That's why she thinks Orlando has such a "beautiful soul". And why she
engages in the rather nauseating mating display with Pussy and Swallows.

Bob
 
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