LaydeeBug (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-04-11 08:42 PM
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Longing for the perfect Salt...
Salt is soooooo super important. A fleur de sal, or grey sea salt, any of the dozens of varieties there are.
A few years ago, I went to an organic festival at our town's convention center. I had heard about it on Air America. While there, this women, who had been doubting the decision to attend with her salt, overheard me tell someone how I heard of the event and she hugged me and told me it restored her faith in her decision to travel all the way from California. She insisted on giving me a bag of her salt, and refused to take payment because she was so elated and looking for a "sign". Well, it was the BEST SALT IN THE WORLD, and *of *COURSE* the other half threw away the bag so I can't order more (aside: I wished she would have charged me because I would have had a record on my credit card)
So until I find my "California Perfect", what are you favorite kinds of salt? Brand names are appreciated?
Where do you order other spices from?
Warpy (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-06-11 11:48 AM
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5. Check out a big health food store if you have one.
I was looking for regular sea salt and all I could find was that fancy French stuff so I got a box. Well, the stuff cakes even out here in the desert so the box is now sealed in a jar with a couple of packs of dessicant.
To me, sodium chloride is sodium chloride. I stick to sea salt and Kosher mined salts because of the differences in texture and the fact that neither have anticaking ingredients, something you don't need out here in the desert unless the salt is full of lavender clay.
I will use up the lavender salt eventually (it takes me 10 years go through a pound of sea salt), but I won't like it.
kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-05-11 09:40 PM
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2. Well, aside from the box of Morton in the cupboard, and the box of
somebody's kosher salt in the other cupboard, and the jar of Trader Joe's coarse sea salt in a third cupboard, I am pretty much set.
I did have some Fleur de Sel de Camargue that I got in France 10 years ago, but that's long gone.
I enjoy other types when I have them, but am not fussy.
Callalily (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-06-11 06:47 AM
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3. Recently picked up some
Himalayan pink salt. It's great on fish!
beac (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-06-11 11:42 AM
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4. Another vote for pink Himalayan salt.
I get mine from The Spice Lab (http://shop.thespicelab.com ) I buy the coarse crystals and grind from my tabletop salt grinder (just like a pepper grinder.)
They have LOTS of other salts for sale and I'm hoping to treat myself to one of their "Sampler" packs if/when car repairs stop sucking up all our disposable income.
GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-08-11 03:51 PM
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6. I like the Hawaiian black lava salt.
You can buy it, and a lot of other varieties of salt at The Spice House, which is also a great place for spices.
http://www.thespicehouse.com/spices/hawaiian-black-and-...
Is there something wrong with Morton or store brand salt? :lmao:
Is there something wrong with Morton or store brand salt? :lmao:
Salt can be expressed in four letters, NaCl -- all other variants are 'salt' that contain other chemical compounds.
The only other difference are the size of the salt crystals - texture.
I fail to see the big deal here.
Is there something wrong with Morton or store brand salt? :lmao:
Iodized salt
"IDD is the single greatest cause of preventable mental retardation. Severe deficiencies cause cretinism, stillbirth and miscarriage. But even mild deficiency can significantly affect the learning ability of populations. Scientific evidence shows alarming effects of IDD. Even a moderate deficiency, especially in pregnant women and infants, lowers their intelligence by 10 to 15 IQ points, with incalculable damage to social and economic development of nations and communities. Today over 1 billion people in the world suffer from iodine deficiency, and 38 million babies born every year are not protected from brain damage due to IDD. These 38 millions, or nearly 30 percent of the world’s newborns, come from families that are the least educated, most isolated and economically disadvantaged. The mark of a civilized society is how well it takes care of its most vulnerable and deprived communities. If we continue to fail to reach these newborns, we will be consigning them to an inter-generational cycle of poverty and injustice."
-- Kul Gautam, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF, October 2007
http://www.saltinstitute.org/Uses-benefits/Salt-in-Food/Essential-nutrient/Iodized-salt
I did have some Fleur de Sel de Camargue that I got in France 10 years ago, but that's long gone.
Is there something wrong with Morton or store brand salt? :lmao:
I thought that's what everyone used, I actually felt stuck-up posting that I use sea salt too, LOL.
My, My, such na·ïve·té, "if you have to ask" :lmao: :lmao:
Say, anyone stop to wonder why salt is iodonized in the first place?
And here we have yet another answer for the question "Why are DUmmies the way they are?" :rotf:
Not in my book...or kitchen.
If the DUmmies want salt they should make their own. Get some pure sodium and chlorine, combine in a castiron skillet at high temperture, stir vigurously until.... hell, if they get to that last part they've done something wrong.
Warpy (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-06-11 11:48 AM
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5. Check out a big health food store if you have one.
I was looking for regular sea salt and all I could find was that fancy French stuff so I got a box. Well, the stuff cakes even out here in the desert so the box is now sealed in a jar with a couple of packs of dessicant.
Fleur de Sel de Camargue? Really?
Dropping into a conversation salt that you bought ten years ago because it came from France has got to be one of the most pretentious things I've ever heard of in my life.
Perfect salt...Absolutely. Must be fresh ground.
Hmm...
Might I suggest Mercury Fulminate or Lead Azide ?
Perhaps Lead Picrate ?
Make sure to grind it well before use !
OK, the last I checked the DUmmies were posting about how they could not afford rising food prices and they were all forced to cut back.
--oh and it was Bush's fault,
So here I'm reading they are purchasing gourmet pink salts and other luxury items...
either one is destitute or one is not...
I know that I used to enjoy several different Campbell's Soups, until they changed to their sea-salt recipes. Now they all taste like ass.If that's truly the case, you don't want to know where that sea salt has been.
If that's truly the case, you don't want to know where that sea salt has been.
beac (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-06-11 11:42 AM
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4. Another vote for pink Himalayan salt.
I get mine from The Spice Lab (http://shop.thespicelab.com ) I buy the coarse crystals and grind from my tabletop salt grinder (just like a pepper grinder.)
They have LOTS of other salts for sale and I'm hoping to treat myself to one of their "Sampler" packs if/when car repairs stop sucking up all our disposable income.
Your salt budget would eat into your disposable income? Are you kidding me? I must admit that from time to time I have indulged myself with an exotic salt--Lawry's seasoned salt, it really jazzes up the tater tots. Pretentious enough?
Check out Tony Chachere's Original Creole Seasoning - like the label says, it's Great on EVERYTHING!
More lies or misconceptions I was taught.
Salt that was Iodised was great for those living inland but if one lived on the sea coast there was no need.
Belief was that the salt air from the coast had iron in it.
Question, for those who cook with cast iron and also use iodised salt, are we getting too much iron in our diets??
More lies or misconceptions I was taught.
Salt that was Iodised was great for those living inland but if one lived on the sea coast there was no need.
Belief was that the salt air from the coast had iron in it.
Question, for those who cook with cast iron and also use iodised salt, are we getting too much iron in our diets??
Check out Tony Chachere's Original Creole Seasoning - like the label says, it's Great on EVERYTHING!The label is right. I put at least a dash of it on everything.
Tony Chachere's Original Creole Seasoning - like the label says, it's Great on EVERYTHING!I will expand my horizons and try it.