Sea Salt

it's from the sea

>>7965943
>Is it even different from normal salt?

Yep. Normal salt is just sodium chloride. Sea salt contains other minerals than just sodium chloride so it tastes different.

You wonder that now? Sea salt at least is dirt cheap, whereas the shitty himalaya salt cost like what, 10$/250g?
The differences are so small you'll probably not even notice them, just get whatever salt they produce near to you, or if you don't care for that, get the cheapest you can find.

it tastes slightly different, definitely not better, but it sounds cooler so it gets used a lot

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it was originally salt water from the sea and they took the water out

basic science, actually

>>7965957
Support your local salt mines!

>>7965961
may sound stupid, but Germany has Bad Reichenhall, France produces a lot of sea salt and I'm sure Austria and Swiss got some stuff of their own as well. They are a little more expensive than the cheapest stuff from discounters, but 250g of salt last quite some time, so I might as well pay 1€ for it instead of 50ct.

I only use single origin free range bio kosher salt from pine myself
Something something mouthfeel

>>7965950

Also, remember that until about 20 years ago, tens of millions of tons of toxic waste was dumped in the seas EACH YEAR.

>>7966167

Why would that bother me?

Every time I go to some friend's house to eat they always go "here's some SEA salt if you need some". Big fucking deal, it's just salt. The only difference I notice is chomping on a huge chunk of salt.

>>7966167
What's your point?

>>7966167
I drink and smoke every day. Why on earth would this dissuade me from enjoying salt from the sea?

>>7966167
they still dump waste, but the sea is really big.

Enjoy your mineral deficiencies you cuck. I bet you're a circumcised non-jew american.

>>7965943
Vegetarians and vegans tend to use sea salt over normal salt because it got a lot of
iodine in it

>>7966261
it's the other way around

>>7965943
Sea salt has more flavor, you can use less of it compared to regular salt and you still taste more.

>>7966257
>I bet you're a circumcised non-jew american
What curious thing to say. I am intrigued by your thought process that arrived at this conclusion.

>>7966289
Yea my cousin told me that but he falls for a lot of marketing tricks

>>7966257
This is what autism looks like

alton brown berated someone on food network star for using the term sea salt because
"all salt is sea salt, there is no salt if there was not one a sea"

>>7966315
>halite
Alton Brown is clearly full of shit.

>>7965943
Flakes are pointless to put into anything it will dissolve into, might as well use granulated table salt.

Use sea salt flakes when you want a burst of saltiness from your food.

>skin of baked potatoes
>Sprinkled over meats
>sprinkeld over salads

>People eating non-iodized salt.

Enjoy your goiters.

>>7966323
halite is an evaporite, which means it's the result of an evaporated body of saltwater you dumbass.

>>7966393
Do people really do this?
I mean, mineral salt is one thing, but non-iodized salt is purely retarded.

Maybe it's good enough for salting meat to be cured or to de-ice the streets, but ISHYG don't regularly eat non-iodized salt.

>>7966408
Non-iodized salt is mostly needed for pickling. Iodine fucks up lactic bacteria.

>>7966393
>>7966408
Third worlders or time travelers from America in the 1920's?

>>7966408
>but non-iodized salt is purely retarded.

Depends on what you want it for.
For random everyday cooking? Sure, it's fine. That's what I use.

But it will fuck up certain things, like cured meats, pickling, or fermenting (like, say, sauerkraut). I also avoid it for sausage making.

>>7966393
Plenty of iodine in dairy, friend.

>>7966167
Yeah and there's tens of millions of tons of toxic gas being blown into the atmosphere too but I don't see any autistic threads about outdoor air vs bottled air

>>7965943
I only see this meme at Wendy's here. Maybe because I'm so far from the sea...

all salt in BR comes from the sea

>>7966408
>but non-iodized salt is purely retarded.
why? you think fish is "gross"? I bet you think putting vitamin C in flour is normal too and not retarded.

>>7965943
https://www.cooksillustrated.com/taste_tests/51-salt

Sea salt makes more sense on the long run.

>>7965950

The salt itself used in table salt (vacuum salt) is the purest salt you are going to get except for lab-grade, on the other hand the anti-caking agents are often a bit questionable.

For some obscure reason nowadays the preferred anti-caking agent is a cyanide salt, the second most popular an aluminium salt. It's like they want to poison us.

>>7966665
get diamond crystal and you don't have to worry about the anti-caking shit. Only that shitty morton's "When it rains it pours" salt uses the anti-caking shit for marketing purposes.

>>7966665
what the fuck

inb4 "muh low bioavailability"

That shit get mixed with citrates and a buzzilion of other organic molecules, they go through high temperature environments etc.

>>7966684

Only the Kosher variety, everything else still has anti-caking agents.

>>7966729
no

>>7966737

Then why is it that when I visit the Diamond Crystal website that only the "Kosher" and "Canning" salts are advertised as additive-free?

>>7966756
you changed your original statement, for one

>>7966729
The seasalt is also additive free. The specialty salts do have additives. But really for cooking you wouldn't use anything other than kosher (for seasoning), pickling (for brines) and seasalt (for brines/finishing)

>>7966764
>you changed your original statement, for one

I didn't change any statement at all, anon. I have made three posts so far in this thread:
>>7965950
>>7966175
>>7966756

...and this will make my fourth post.

>>7966774

>>7966729
>only kosher

>>7966756
kosher and canning

>>7966784

That's nice. >>7966729 wasn't me. Thus, I clearly couldn't have changed my statement because I never made a statement in the first place.

There's more than one of us who realizes that the assertion that Diamond Crystal brand is uniquely free of anticaking agents is absurd.

>>7966790
The two main salt brands are mortons and diamond crystal. Only diamond crystal doesn't use additives.

>>7966784

No ID's here, that wasn't him.

>>7966294
Shut the fuck up you cumdumpster faggot!

>>7966798

Yes, I understand your claim perfectly well. I disagree with it. I think that most of Diamond Crystal's salt does indeed include anticaking agents. This makes sense given that Diamond Crystal only advertises their specialty products as being additive-free. The implication is that most of the product line (i.e. normal table salt) contains anti-caking agents just like everyone else does.

If you happen to have a photo of the ingredients list on a container of plain diamond crystal salt that shows no anti-caking agent then I will gladly stand corrected.

>>7965943
>Tfw you live in a country without salt mines
>Sea salt is just salt
>Mineral salt that is the meme

Ow yeah, they clearly are so different

>>7966807
Ahh i see.You consider kosher salt a specialty salt. That is where the communication broke down.

>>7966765

The sea salt has Magnesium carbonate, but I don't really care much about a bit of magnesium.

Point taken about the canning salt, that's pure too.

>>7966829
>You consider kosher salt a specialty salt.

Yes. And so does everyone else. That's why it's called "Kosher" salt instead of just "salt".

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>>7966835
So special!

>>7965950
If I understand what you call "normal salt" is salt from a mine right? So it have a lot of other minerals too, the same as any sea salt...what you are saying is 100% geologically impossible to happen

>>7966846

Whole label, please. No crop.

>>7966899
>If I understand what you call "normal salt" is salt from a mine right?

Perhaps that was its original origin, but it was most likely refined before it was sold.

When I say "normal salt" I mean what is sold in supermarkets and found on tables worldwide. I suppose you might call it "table salt"?

It's origins are most commonly mining. Some of it comes from the sea. It's then refined before being packaged, so the other minerals have been stripped out. It typically has anticaking agents and iodine added. It's not as if the salt comes straight out of the mine and onto your plate. Surely that would be obvious simply by looking at it. It's far too clean and the crystals are much too uniform for it to have come straight out of the ground.

Specialty salts like PHS are "straight out of the mine" though. You can clearly see the different color.

>>7966899

The most common minerals are taken out, it's >99.9% pure.

>>7966915

That is the complete ingredient list.
You have no idea what kosher salt is do you? I'll help you..it's salt that is larger grained than table salt. If you want a small grained table salt with no additives then fill you salt shaker with pickling salt or blitz kosher salt to a finer grain. But the idea that you need to salt your food at the table would imply to me that you can't cook.

>>7966835
Kosher salt is an exception to that rule because of how common it is. It's the default salt in a lot of households.

All salts taste the same in the final product of a dish. It's just sodium in the end. It doesn't really matter what you use. Kosher gets better distribution because of the size.

>>7967009
In the States perhaps.
I have certainly never seen it in any shop.
Actually, I've have never heard anyone from Europe or Australia even say the words 'Kosher' and 'salt' in the same sentence.

Larger, flakier crystals.

>>7966505
That might sell well in the US if marketed properly.

>>7968467
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOV1e1sjmmY

Just like the good 'ol days right after 9-11!

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>>7965943
These people are /fa/ as fuck

>>7968944
just like homeless people, worn out clothes + strange random combinations sometimes results in an interesting result

>>7967048
In French it's just "gros sel" (big salt).

>>7967048
>>7966820

These apply here too.

In Greece almost all salt is sea salt (obviously) and the word "kosher" is never used.
I didn't even know what it meant before looking up american recipes for meat curing.
We have "table salt" (probably meaning mineral salt) and memealayan pink salt, but no jew salt or dick chopping here.

I live by the sea and as an experiment tried to make some salt by letting sea water evaporate on the sun. It was probably full of vestiges of other stuff but it was pretty good.

Anyway, all salt over here is sea salt as far as I know. You have the fancy fleur de sel and himalayan salt and stuff like that but those are the memes.

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who /filthy meme salt/ here?

>>7965950
normal salt usually contains iodine too, because the government knows best.

>>7969089
the government is really cute

always looking out for us

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>>7969075
>coarse
>UNREFINED
>CELTIC SEA

>>7969089
Without iodine all the midwest cucks would have goiters the size of baseballs.

You're welcome.

>>7969120
>midwest cucks
I trust you're aware that most of the mined salt in the USA comes from the midwest, right?
Morton's Salt, with salt mines all through Ohio, Indiana, UNDER lake Erie and the world largest salt plant is in Michigan

Ignorant "elitist" Coasties BTFO

>>7965943
> meme
I am sick and tired of this word.
It's 2009's "epic," but, like, it's actually detrimental.
If nobody anywhere talked about sea salt but, but everyone every where; through hear-say and "that's what my aunt cooked with," were using sea salt due to some shit that started generations ago, then it would be a meme.
Preferences =/= memes
Fads =/= memes
Media molded cultural trends =/= memes
Things that annoy you =/= memes

Holy fucking shit I hate that word.

>>7969189
Most of their food comes from the heartland.
They act like it all comes for overseas or the ocean.

>>7969213
you need to calm the meme down and take a big meme breath.

>>7969213
>Holy fucking shit I hate that word.
That's because your probably not saying it right.

>them
>theme

>mem
>meme

OK now that that's sorted, let's talk salt!

>>7969213
Meme just means "thing I don't like" today.

>>7969213
>complains about memes
>actually meme-posts while doing it

>>7969213
>=/=
Nice memeposting, faggot.

>>7969213
> =/=

!= master race

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yes it contains essential minerals that are healthy for your body

table salt is stripped of all nutrients

the same reason why honey is healthier than white sugar

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also how old are you OP 2 years old?

sea salt has been around for the entire time the earth has been here

its not new

>>7970541

We're not fish, we have not evolved for the mineral distribution in sea water. Or for added salt in our food for that matter.

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>>7970567
all food has sodium
if you happen to eat foods low in sodium its perfectly fine to add a little unprocessed sea salt to your diet

the distribution doesnt matter its about avoiding the deficiency's which are prevented if you have the trace minerals

IF you are going to add salt to your diet its way better to use sea salt or pink himalayan

>>7970567

We haven't "Evolved" to use the internet either, yet that doesn't seem to be stopping you.