Everything You Ever Need to Know about Salt

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[sodpoodle]

American salt manufacturers began iodizing salt in the 1920's, in cooperation with the government, after people in some parts of the country were found to be suffering from goiter, an enlargement of the thyroid gland caused by an easily-preventable iodine deficiency. People require less than 225 micrograms of iodine a day. Seafood as well as sea salt contains iodine naturally and the supplement is unnecessary if there are sufficient quantities of either in one's diet. Note: Natural sea salt is a healthy replacement for ordinary table salt.

[GreenHornet]

Salt is one of the five major food groups: Salt, grease, bacon, steak, and beer.

I put enough salt on my french fries and popcorn to make it look like it's covered with powdered sugar.

I remember being told that I had a long lost brother. When I was a child, my grandfather once gave me a half an amulet. You don't have the other half, do you?

("Blue" Lancer, "Green" Hornet - coincidence?)

[dmz]

To convert plain flour into self-raising flour, add two teaspoons of baking powder to each cup of plain flour. Adding one teaspoon of cream of tartar and half a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda to one cup of plain flour gives the same result.

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Know your Ingredients - the substitutions section of my dog eared, falling apart copy of the joy of cooking.

My wife was hoping to make chocolate icing a couple of weeks back, but we had used all of our unsweetened baking chocolate during the holidays and had not restocked.

Enter the joy of cooking - butter + sugar + unsweetened cocoa, and voila, a lovely chocolate icing.

[far sider]

The best gift I ever received.

[dmz]

What?!?!?!?!?

No cumin?

[SJSAMPLE]

Well played, Sir.

[sodpoodle]

Yup - there is a website for that. i.e. mace = nutmeg.

I’ll look for it.

here ‘tis

http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Common-Ingredient-Substitutions/Detail.aspx

[piroque]

Salt is one of the five major food groups: Salt, grease, bacon, steak, and beer.

you sure you've got that in the right order,,,, don't forget the eggs

[Red_Devil 232]

Salt is not needed to make baked goods like breads rise. It is needed to at least give it taste. I have forgotten to add salt to my home made bread and they just do fine until you eat a slice!

[Roos_Girl]

Thanks for the info!

I hadn’t bothered to figure out why they were putting sugar in the salt, just switched to various types of sea salt and other salts. Am right now experimenting with Himalayan pink.

[Arrowhead1952]

That is similar to our BBQ rub, except we make sbout a pint each time.

2 cups salt
1 cup black pepper
1/2 cup paprika
1/4 cup onion salt

Cover meat with a generous amount and leave in cooler with ice overnight.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Salt in necesary to get yeast bread to rise.

Um-isn’t salt an absolute necessity for making baked goods rise properly?

Actually, yeast feeds on sugar or a similar ingredient such as molasses or honey and the bread rises with the gas produced. Salt is an inhibitor that prevents the baked good from rising too much.

[Campion]

And in case of nuclear fallout, give your children iodine immediately to prevent their bodies from absorbing the similar-in-molecular-structure strontium.

Not quite. You administer non-radioactive iodine to push out the radioactive iodine-131, and keep it from being absorbed into the thyroid gland, where it tends to cause cancer. (The excess iodine is just eliminated by the kidneys instead.)

[dmz]

I’ve got some smoked asian sea salt that is absolutely killer (in a good way).

[NormsRevenge]

Salt and

Sliced tomaters!

[MilspecRob]

I have been hospitalized twice for Hyponatremia (Low Blood
Sodium Level) that almost killed me. My morning and afternoon break drink is a tablespoon of powered chicken stock granules with a Lipton chicken noodle cup of soup.

[sodpoodle]

Judge Napolitano coming up on Fox - to discuss this New York ban.

I love the judge;)

[greatplains]

We did that when I was a kid - just a wee sprinkle of it, and on cantaloupe too. Later in life, people thought I was nuts. Now it’s a guilty pleasure - which is dumb on my part, since I don’t have any health problems that restrict salt.

[TADSLOS]

But, stay off MY corner or I’m going to have to ‘salt rub’ you out...

LOL! We need to discuss "territories". You bring your people. I'll bring mine. No heat. Bring salt for the meal. ;~)

[Global2010]

The source of the article is a kosher and sea salt company up here in the PNW.

I bought there taster kit first which is a very nice gift too btw as it comes in a bamboowood/glass box with all the little glass/cork jars of sea/kosher salts.

I fell in love with.
And bought 5lb bags of:

Smoked Oak Chardonnay Sea salt

Alder Smoked

Coconut and Lime

Durango Smoked

The alder is in a grinder the others I put in parmeson type glass shakers (like the ole fashion type you can get now at the dollar store).

The Durango makes a great topper on my morning Virgin Mary and on or in other meat recipes.

Alder for chicken/pork

Chardonnay Oak on what I eat mostly in my diet which is raw veggie salads.

Coconut Lime on my asian or other fish dishes but not limited to.

The himalayan pink is nice.

I like the charchoal (cant think of the exact name) Sicilian ( I think) Black but spenday.

There was one meant for egg dishes (I am not an egg person) and yuk it tastes like Eggs.

[Global2010]

This is the Sampler Gift Box I bought before making my first round of 5lb bags.