AllenOK
Executive Chef
Many years ago, I developed what I thought was a sensitivity to salt. Therefore, when I first started cooking, I rarely salted anything. Man, my food was bland!
After I moved out on my own, and started buying/reading various cookbooks, I read a little blurb about the three main kinds of salt (back then, early 90's), table/iodized, Kosher, and canning/pickling salt. Obviously, Table salt has iodine added, which is the easiest way for the general population to get iodine, a necessary mineral. Kosher salt is pure salt, in large crystals that easily dissolve on the surface of food, and was originally used to draw the blood out of meat products to render them kosher. Canning/pickling salt is chemically pure salt, used in canning and/or pickling, as it won't cloud up the brine.
For some oddball reason, I decided to get a package of Canning/pickling salt, as it's much cheaper than Kosher. After using it to season my food a few times, I realized that I didn't really have a sensitivity to salt, but to iodine.
Nowadays, I only buy the Canning/pickling salt. I never got into using Kosher salt, or any of the sea salts. We have a container of Iodized table salt, as PeppA bought it, but we hardly ever use it.
After I moved out on my own, and started buying/reading various cookbooks, I read a little blurb about the three main kinds of salt (back then, early 90's), table/iodized, Kosher, and canning/pickling salt. Obviously, Table salt has iodine added, which is the easiest way for the general population to get iodine, a necessary mineral. Kosher salt is pure salt, in large crystals that easily dissolve on the surface of food, and was originally used to draw the blood out of meat products to render them kosher. Canning/pickling salt is chemically pure salt, used in canning and/or pickling, as it won't cloud up the brine.
For some oddball reason, I decided to get a package of Canning/pickling salt, as it's much cheaper than Kosher. After using it to season my food a few times, I realized that I didn't really have a sensitivity to salt, but to iodine.
Nowadays, I only buy the Canning/pickling salt. I never got into using Kosher salt, or any of the sea salts. We have a container of Iodized table salt, as PeppA bought it, but we hardly ever use it.