Kosher Salt

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Kosher Salt

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Kosher salt crystals.

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Kosher doesn't seem a chemical concept but a religious one. The crystals shape suggests normal NaCl.
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Kosher salt

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The strange thing about salt is that it is not all the same, depending on the source. I have photographed dissolved and dried Kosher salt and it appears to set up differeently than ordinary table salt, possibly because it may be non-iodized. Gourmet cooking magazines occassionaly run features on exotic salts, some of which are red or even black, and I have read that pretzel salt is a variety of sea salt from Mexico. Makes me want to dig some out of the bottom of the pretzel bag and see what it looks like.

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Pau wrote:Kosher doesn't seem a chemical concept but a religious one. The crystals shape suggests normal NaCl.
It says "Kosher" on the container, so I have to defer to science... :wink:

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Re: Kosher salt

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Olympusman wrote:The strange thing about salt is that it is not all the same, depending on the source. I have photographed dissolved and dried Kosher salt and it appears to set up differeently than ordinary table salt, possibly because it may be non-iodized. Gourmet cooking magazines occassionaly run features on exotic salts, some of which are red or even black, and I have read that pretzel salt is a variety of sea salt from Mexico. Makes me want to dig some out of the bottom of the pretzel bag and see what it looks like.

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I'm a big fan of Alton Brown's "Good Eats" (despite my utter lack of cooking ability) and Kosher salt appears to be all he ever uses except for pickles.

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Michael Reese Much FRMS EMS Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

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