Posted on 10/17/2013 10:26:24 AM PDT by GraceG
I am looking to replace the salt shaker in my house with a "Salt Grinder" type salt shaker and would like any freeper suggestions on what brands or types of sea salt may be the best as well as any warnings on what I may want to avoid.
Here is are some of the per-requisites that i would like with my salt grinder.
1. The Sea salt Must contain Iodine 2. The Sea salt Must contain Selenium 3. The Sea Salt MUST be free of any heavy metals or toxic metals.
I have heard good things about Himalayan sea salt and other "pink sea salt"
Just wondering if any fellow freepers have any suggestions or have done the research.
daffy is right...sodium is sodium but salt is not salt. Most of the salts you buy are refined to the point of being worthless, except for alittle taste. Good salt is GREAT and loaded with other minerals. Good salt emulates your bloodmakeup
I use Morton’s coarse grain kosher. I’m lost trying to season with fine grain now!
You can buy iodine in a bottle & swipe it on your skin directly. It will be absorbed if you are deficient.
If everyone drank the proper amount of water everyday, there would be no need for dirty ocean salt.
William Bounds Gourmet Sea Salt is a good value for your grinder. You get the trace elements of the ocean you're looking for. Use iodized salt for your cooking ingredients or for raising the temperature of boiling liquids.
If you must grind sea salt around the stove there are several grinders with bases that capture and measure the salt, but they're pretty utilitarian for the table. And, the higher humidity around the stove plays havoc with the grinder. If you decide to grind pepper also, the ceramic mills will do both salt and pepper while the metal mills should be reserved for pepper because of the potential of corrosion.
mortar and pestle works okay for me
Below is a spectral analysis of Himalyan pink salt as it is typically found. The list shows all the trace minerals, electrolytes, and elements contained in Himalayan salt. Himalayan salt is a rock salt popular among health food advocates who seek it for the nutritional value of its fairly abundant trace minerals.
http://www.atthemeadow.com/shop/Resources/Minerals-in-Pink-Himalayan-Salt
Oops sorry, it isn’t kosher. Maybe it used to be. Mediterranean Sea Salt.
I see what you did there! When it comes to clever humor, you are worth your salt.
The salt was deposited there back when those hills were underwater....Must have something to do with global WORMING.
The reason I use CrystalDiamond is because I actually prefer its flavor and the way it absorbs into my recipes.
Kosher salt isn’t so much fine grain as flat grain. The flake of this style salt improves ‘melting’ or absorbing into your recipe. Using it to season meats and fish (as little as a good pinch well distributed) prior to cooking really hits the spot
That’s okay. Kosher really refers to the grain sizing and shape rather than anything else....usually implies a flaked salt
We use Celtic Grey in our house
Table Salt - yuk
Sodium ferrocyanide, also known as yellow prussiate of soda, is sometimes added to salt as an anticaking agent. The additive is considered safe for human consumption.[35][36] Such anti-caking agents have been added since at least 1911 when magnesium carbonate was first added to salt to make it flow more freely.[37] The safety of sodium ferrocyanide as a food additive was found to be provisionally acceptable by the Committee on Toxicity in 1988.[35] Other anticaking agents sometimes used include tricalcium phosphate, calcium or magnesium carbonates, fatty acid salts (acid salts), magnesium oxide, silicon dioxide, calcium silicate, sodium aluminosilicate and calcium aluminosilicate. Both the European Union and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permitted the use of aluminium in the latter two compounds.[38]
Almost all salt you buy is sea salt. They mine it from areas which are old sea beds.
The mortons generic salt is just highly processed.
Selenium... it is possible to OD on selenium. For selenium eat no more than 3 Brazil Nuts per day as a snack.
I like OXO good grips. They aren’t very expensive and have a ceramic mechanism.
Found some Himalayan Recycled Yak Salt. They force feed the yaks foie gras, collect the yak pies, dry them in a pollution free natural grass hut,then hand ground by monks with their bare knuckles in the palms of their hands who then sell it to Morton Salt. Then it is used to prevent workers from slipping on their work floor as they color sub Lake Erie salt with a dash of red color #27, bottled and shipped to gourmet stores around the world.
Below is a spectral analysis of Himalyan pink salt as it is typically found. The list shows all the trace minerals, electrolytes, and elements contained in Himalayan salt. Himalayan salt is a rock salt popular among health food advocates who seek it for the nutritional value of its fairly abundant trace minerals.
http://www.atthemeadow.com/shop/Resources/Minerals-in-Pink-Himalayan-Salt
I need more Tellurium and Praseodynium in my diet so thanks for the spectral analysis.
Found some Himalayan Recycled Yak Salt. They force feed the yaks foie gras, collect the yak pies, dry them in a pollution free natural grass hut,then hand ground by monks with their bare knuckles in the palms of their hands who then sell it to Morton Salt. Then it is used to prevent workers from slipping on their work floor as they color sub Lake Erie salt with a dash of red color #27, bottled and shipped to gourmet stores around the world.
LOL
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