/ck/ - Food & Cooking

why?

>>12418250
It's healthier.

>>12418259
How so?

>>12418265
The pink

>>12418175
I use it to. There’s probably a few salt autists on here that will tell you there’s a better salt to use but w/e.

>>12418268
Explain further pls I wanna know

>>12418265
I heard it increases testosterone

BLACKED Hawaiian salt.

>>12418259
Its actually marginally unhealthy because its depleted of other electrolytes like magnesium, potassium, calcium, and iodide. The red is just iron oxide which is indigestable

This shit here...

>>12418265
It's Asian and Exotic!
This means good!!

>>12418265
Less iodine

maldon

>>12418852
>eating literal rust
4chan ruins everything for me.

>>12418175
>Salting food
why would anyone do that, it kills the flavor

> it using exclusively fleur de sel

>>12418852
So white salt is healthier?

>>12420587
well, black salt is responsible of 50% of sodium related heart attacks, while being only 13% of the salt used in america

>>12420630
I don't feel like that's true

>>12418175
>Literally advocating for mental retardation.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/315081.php
>Although pink Himalayan salt may naturally contain some iodine, it most likely contains less iodine than iodized salt. Therefore, those who have iodine deficiency or are at risk of deficiency may need to source iodine elsewhere if using pink salt instead of table salt.
http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/thyroidendemicgoiter.html
>Over 1/3 of world population live in iodine deficient area; 1.6 billion are at risk of iodine deficiency; 655 million have goiter
>inb4 you're covered by tap water:
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/iodine.pdf
>The mean concentration of total iodine in drinking-water in the USA is 4 µg/litre and the maximum concentration is 18 µg/litre.
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iodine-Consumer/
>How much iodine do I need?
>Adults - 150 mcg
>Am I getting enough iodine?
>Certain groups of people are more likely than others to have trouble getting enough iodine:
>People who do not use iodized salt.
>Adding iodine to salt is the most widely used strategy to control iodine deficiency.
>inb4 this is just some modern meme and not a problem ancient people had:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169859/
>Goiter has always been a disease of immense interest of the general population due to its widespread prevalence. It is one of the most common medical problems portrayed in ancient paintings.

>>12418175
For me, it' s reddit.

>>12420485
>literally depending on rust to carry oxygen to your cells
The hemocyanin master race will rise up soon.

>>12418852
>marginally
And what about the polluted oceans?

Step aside plebs.

>>12418175
Can you use that in baking as you would with normal sea salt?

>>12422561
Yes, of course.