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diff --git a/src/salt.md b/src/salt.md deleted file mode 100644 index e35af4f..0000000 --- a/src/salt.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -# Table Salt vs. Kosher Salt - -Table salt is the salt on your table: teeny-tiny grains in a little shaker. - -Kosher salt is the salt that should be in your kitchen: large, thick grains. - -Some people new to cooking get confused on the difference and when to use one or the other. - -The long story short is you should always use kosher salt for cooking. -Table salt is much more intense and is only for brisk post-cooking flavoring at the table. -Kosher salt is more subtle, dissolves slower and thus releases its flavor slower. - -Note also that you should add a larger mass of kosher salt where you might only -add a pinch of table salt, since table salt is much stronger partially because -it dissolves so quickly. - -## Table salt is not lindy. - -Table salt has iodine and other additives. - -Its history is somewhat analogous to the addition of fluoride to municipal -water supplies. Nearly a hundred years ago, the U.S. government began working -with corporations to add iodine to salt ostensibly because they were concerned -about people having iodine deficiencies. - -A healthy diet including eggs, dairy and some seafood should get enough iodine -elsewhere to not need it in the form of table salt supplements, so don't feel -like to you need to use it. - -## Why is kosher salt called "kosher" salt? - -Hebrews and then Jews revile eating meat with any blood in it. Larger grain -salt was better for the process called "koshering" whereby meat is covered in -salt and the salt draws out the liquid blood. Note that table salt is not -non-kosher in Mosaic law either, it is simply not suited for this "koshering" -process because it simply dissolves into the meat. - -For one reason or another, this association caught on and we now call coarse -grain salt "kosher." Note that kosher salt is more or less the natural form of -salt, it is not, as one might imagine, some new innovation to comply with -Jewish dietary practice. |