Sometimes I wonder about peoples choices. I see "sea salt" used a lot in advertising and recipies. Sodium chloride is salt. It is just a chemical combination. I know people who will swear by the use of "sea salt". Most salt is sea salt. What we dig up from under ground is sea salt from an old sea that evaporated.

It does the job just fine and I'll bet if you did a blind test, people couldn't tell the difference. Is there a difference? Well, yes, but not the salt part. The salt we dig up is from a prebiotic era of earths history. That means it was before life got a good hold and flourished. Sea salt is recently recovered salt form todays oceans. Regular salt is mostly sodium chloride while sea salt is sodium chloride with lots of stuff in it. Sewage, bilge water, sea gull droppings, antibiotic resistant bacteria and so on.

 

I like "sea salt" because it seems to be in bigger chunks. Taste is the same though

 

I try not to use salt. So much sodium in everything already.

 

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to me it seems like you "need" more of the sea salt to get the same results
probably because of the bigger grains

BTW if most people followed food production from start to finish we would all be pretty skinny LOL

Years ago I delivered cattle to a processing plant
I needed to use the phone and that meant a trip threw the entire place to get to the lunch room
I got to see up close , kill line and gutting just to name a few of the proccesses
I suspect they figured I would be horrified LOL
I grew up in the country and have seen guys eat a sandwich in the middle of a barn as well as farm butchering

 

I use mainly kosher salt where it comes from I have no idea.

 

all salt comes from the ground. kosher is just a diff in the way its processed.
hell i work for Pepsi and we have kosher Pepsi in 2l.

yeah, no one wants to see how their food was transported from farm to the table.

 

Me too. I wish I would have watched my salt intake when I was a younger man.

 

i love salt....probably too much. but the thing with kosher salt as compared to table salt is that you have to use a little more kosher salt to get the desired amount. kosher salt has more uniform crystals and are larger. they also call it chefs salt or cooking salt because of the whole "add a pinch" thing.
if you go out and find a really good "salt shop" you will find some things in there that you wouldnt believe. there are quite a few different flavors and colors of salt. it amazing.
but its just my .02

 

Shhh, don't be killing my love for Sea Salt and Kosher Salt!

 

I personally like sea salt better.
But table salt, containing iodine, helps maintain a healthy thyroid. Of course, in moderation. But both contain the same amount of sodium, one is just less processed (sea salt)