/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Table salt because I'm not a hippy that falls for this bullshit.

>>9943470
I distill my tears, sweat, and semen for natural recycle of salt forming minerals.

iodized for that iodine supplement

>>9943477
seems like a lot of effort, but ok.

>Supplements You Trust

How fucking retarded does one have to be to fall for this shit

>>9943470
>Celtic sea salt
>Improves brain function
>Consumed exclusively throughout history by the Irish
This is a load of horseshit

>>9943470
>>9943474
table salt is fine for cooking, but if you are pickling or brining it's important to have pure salt

>>9943474
>table salt because i have the palate of a goat.

>>9943562
>he's mad his faggotry is being called out

>>9943536
Some of the best authors and poets that ever lived...

>>9943562
Pretentious bullshit isn't necessarily good. Cooking isn't exclusive to gullible people who believe the celtic salt horseshit. Just watch that Kitchen Nightmares UK episode where Gordon eats in an old black lady's business.

The Poor man's Trifecta.
All 100% salt with no additives.

>>9943651
Those are the exact salts I have. I used to have a big cube of Himalayan salt, but I never used it and eventually lost it.

Actually I have a chunky salt for pretzels I forgot about

>>9943651
the thumbnail looks like it should include a surgeon generals warning

>>9943470
jesus christ are there still adults that fall for this shit ?

>>9943616
>im racist
And you too have the palate of a goat.

Yes...himilayan/celtic/moon salt bs is just that...salt is salt.
Table salt however contains iodine. If you have compared iodized table salt against kosher or sea salt and cant tell the difference i feel bad for you.

>>9943651
For me, it's Maldon's. The premier salt.

>>9943616
Was that the episode... "Mama's Soul Food Kitchen," or some such?

>>9943693
>Table salt however contains iodine.
muh supertaster. You can't taste the iodine. You'll say you can, but everyone knows you're full of shit.

>>9943470
Tell me why I shouldn't just combine these two in a mixed jar and use them together for the ultimate #healthfood ?

Seething salt.

>>9943710
Nope. I can taste it.
I dont know that i taste the actual 'iodine' but i can most certainly tell if a dish has been prepared with iodized table salt. I guess youre blessed in a way...not ever being disappointed with poorly seasoned food.

>>9943730
>I guess youre blessed in a way
Yeah, i'm not deluded.

>>9943536
Imagine if they just had regular salt

>>9943488
Just like a good roast, but I'm not a lazy cunt

>>9943611
Were Americans. Yea we know

>>9943470
homemade salt because I have access to sodium and chlorine gas

I eat a quarter-pound of both, right before eating a big bowl of activated almonds

>>9943977
Mind explaining how you got access to that stuff and how you make it?

What's the deal with all those YouTube channels using kosher salt?

>>9943611
>>9943536

cool it with the anti-Irish sentiment.

>>9943616
>>9943709
>when he goes up to the kitchen with an empty plate and a satisfied grin like a child

comfiest episode desu

>>9944798
Take a fucking (((guess)))

>>9944806
t. Mullarney McDoodle

>>9943470
>be me
>hackerman
>hire 4 "career criminals", they're all fucking clowns
>hire them to shoot up some place and make table salt for me, tell them it's meth
>literally making chemically pure salt water with HCL and NAOH
>9/10 times they fuck it up
>somehow blows up the building too
It's hard to select the right salt, I tend to go easy on it though because I cook for older family members that have dietary restrictions, so I normally used salt substitutes (KCl)

Isn't the only ly difference between regular sea salt and kosher salt the size of the grain? Yet every chef/TV fucko calls for kosher salt... That's pretty odd right?

Himalayan salt is just more expensive salt. It doesn't fucking matter.

>>9943536
The Irish don't eat fish or seafood, that's why when the potato famin came they didn't just switch to fishing

>>9944920
>Yet every chef/TV fucko calls for kosher salt... That's pretty odd right?
No it's because if you change the grain size it fucks with the actual amount of salt. A tablespoon of kosher salt and a tablespoon of table salt are very different things.

>>9944927
Bullshit I went to the famine museum and the blight came along with big storms that destroyed the fishing fleet. The Irish eat fish, I did there and it was fresh and cheap.
The real cause of the famine is the Brits taking all the food remaining.

>>9945000
As soon as the harvest failed they sold all their boats, rods and nets to buy grain.

>big storms
Keep telling yourself that Seamus.

>The real cause of the famine is the Brits taking all the food remaining.
That was taxes, you can't avoid taxes.

when someone primarily uses anything but kosher salt I lose most of my respect for them

>>9945013
>Spotted the limey
Eire will soon be reunited and there's nothing you can do.
English were the worst colons everywhere they went, they even got kicked out of burgerland

>>9945199
>Eire will soon be reunited and there's nothing you can do.

Good, Nireland costs 125% what it makes each year. It's an economic black hole

>>9944927
>The Irish don't eat fish or seafood
AHAHAHA. Imagine being this ill-informed.

>>9945070
>This larger grained mined salt is better than this smaller grained mined salt
Why? when it dissolves it makes no difference.

>>9946295
Himalayan has a lower sodium content than standard table salt.

>>9943470
I toss both in my salt grinder because my wife thinks it looks pretty.

Give me the one that generates me the most (you)s op.

>>9946303
Himalayan is differentiated from kosher.

>>9944687
>Make chlorine gas with Bleach and acetic acid (CAREFULLY)
>Buy sodium off the internet
>Put sodium in beaker, add gas before plugging the container for safety
>After reaction you should have salt if measurements are correct
Wa la

>>9943470
why do liberals always believe such ridiculous health voodoo?

>>9946345
no rational thought, just feefees.

>>9946348
Just like our president, eh?

>>9944927
Its because the English who controlled Ireland got more money exporting the fish and sheep and cows so the locals were only left with cheap potatoes that weren't worth exporting

Ireland was a net exporter of food during the famine

>>9946351
True, Trump is much more of a liberal than a conservative. He is basically just a shitty populist who happens to be going senile

I maintain 5 varieties of salt and I feel like its for a good reason.

1- kosher salt. My go-to for nearly everything. Only draw back is in my area its a bit expensive.

2 - very course sea salt. I found a 5lb bag in an asian market for practically nothing. Used in applications where the huge crystals are not an issue like soups and pasta water.

3 - smoked sea salt. Rubs, sauces, seafood, anywhere id like to add smokiness without actual smoke.

4 - black and red volcanic salt. Its pretty...used on things like devilled eggs.

5 - pink himilayan salt. I have a rock lamp.

>>9946387
>2 - very course sea salt. I found a 5lb bag in an asian market for practically nothing. Used in applications where the huge crystals are not an issue like soups and pasta water.

You can't be this stupid can you? You dissolve large crystals in water thus negating any reason to buy large crystal salt?

>>9946387
>a rock lamp.
wtf is a rock lamp?

>>9946399
>herpy derp
You cant be this stupid can you?
I bought huge crystals because it was an incredible value.

>>9946488
Google is your friend

>>9946488

It's a small (himalayan) salt rock and they put a light inside of it. If you lick it you taste the salt.

Himalaya salt is just normal salt with some rust in it.

>>9946533
I mean what is the point? Is it just supposed to be a decoration? Does the salt serve some purpose?

>>9946571
10 years ago when i got mine...yes. just a pretty rock. It does look cool.

Now...they are being marketed as having some retarded medicinal value... air deionized or something ridiculous.

Its just a rock.

>>9946612
You say that, but I've sat in a therapeutic salt room with a friend of mine who has asthma, and it really helps people with lung issues. Salt rooms have been used around the world for a very long time, it's just the US that thinks it's something new and "hipster". Old salt mines are used for this purpose, as are rooms that are built using salt blocks for the walls, and have coarse, sand like salt crystals as the floor. Like an indoor salt beach, per se.
However one salt lamp isn't going to do much for you in that department. You'd need to get a salt diffuser and keep the door to that room closed, or have one in every room.

>>9946668
how does it work?

Why is it so fun to bully the Irish?

>>9946676
Basically it makes a very mist of salt in the air, and breathing it in helps open up your lungs, your sinuses, etc. More scientifically, salt emits negative ions, which in tiny amounts don't matter, but imagine being inside a salt mine or room made entirely of salt. Also, salt has antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and anti bacterial properties that work on your epithelial cells, which line your lungs.

>>9946707
>More scientifically, salt emits negative ions
by what process? Charge must be conserved, it can't just create charge, if it is putting negative ions into the air, it must be gaining a positive charge itself, which doesn't seem very chemically favorable

>>9946295
recipes, plus it's a standard size that just works well

>>9946707
lol fuck off with this bullshit
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3937102/
>From this review, recommendations for inclusion of halotherapy as a therapy for COPD cannot be made at this point

>>9946733
I'm not a scientist, and it's been way too long since I took my science coursework to remember everything, so I'm going to let other people explain that. But I do know it works, and the basics behind it, which I already stated. Humans have used salt room therapy for breathing issues for well over a thousand years. There's documentation going back to at least the 11th century.

>>9943470
The himalaya one because it doesn't have plastic in it

My mother who suffers from hypertension dumps this pink salt shit all over everything and claims that she read that it actually lowers blood pressure

She usually ends up in the hospital a couple times per year when she hits dangerously high 230/120 blood pressure partially thanks to some fucking quack naturo/homeopath guru bulls hit that she listens to instead of an actual doctor

>>9946758
It's not bullshit, but keep only believing what big medicine wants you to believe.
I completely believe in science and scientific method, but I also believe that, like most big money industries, the western medical industry has an agenda against therapies that they don't benefit from.
Also,
>mentions only one of numerous lung diseases

>>9946797
>>9946775
If you can't show that it works in a clinical trial, there's no reason to believe that it does. The science behind it is bullshit peddled completely by people like you who don't understand fully how it works, but know just enough to think they aren't being swindled. You're fucking retarded.

>>9946807
Ok, then why does the wellness center (where they do physical therapy and have a gym and swimming facilities) attached to my hospital have a salt room and a salt tank in it?
You do you, but leave others people alone.

>>9943470
>regulates water content throughout your body
kek, literally all salts do that

>>9946775
Humans have done a lot of thing that actually do nothing, or even rather harmful things for health for thousands of year. The fact that something is traditional or used to be done in no way suggests something is good, most of the time it implies the exact opposite

Next time someone sells you some product that "balances your humors" or some shit, please consider the fact that you are being scammed

>>9946752
>he doesn't weigh his salt
If you don't weigh your salt then Morton kosher salt is best as it has a constant volume to weight ratio.

>>9946345
>meanwhile conservatives say vaccines cause autism
it's not just liberals, everyone is retarded

>>9947013
um, the anti-vax crowd is overwhelmingly liberal. Generally California liberal arts educated women

>>9946825
Same reason mine offers acupuncture, some people are dumb enough to think it works even though there is zero evidence and it doesn't actually hurt them so it's easier to let them placebo themselves if they make a fuss. Same reason they have a chapel for that matter, or are you under the impression that God spends his time curing the sniffles?

>>9947013
No conservatives say soy turns men into women. They're even more retarded.

>>9947331
I don't think 4chan memes qualify as "conservative"

>>9947331

That's not inaccurate, though.

>Not buying one of these bags every year
>Not only can you eat it but you can also use it during the winter to prevent ice on your driveway

>>9947533
hmmm

>>9947564
Thats just the government wanting to stop you from enjoying delicious flavors.

>>9943470

NACL IS NACL????? SAME SHIT

>>9947839
A small percent of these is not NaCl, but other salts. Pretty much the same thing though. You won't notice the difference in a dish

>>9947214
There is evidence that acupuncture works, though.
Also, the chapel is in the hospital, near surgeries and icu, for obvious reasons. That's not remotely the same as therapy centers. Your logic is flawed.

>>9946857
>overcorrecting this much
Your generalizing and and using hokey terms to try and validate your opinion, not facts. Your personal beliefs are not facts.

>>9948108
My opinion that things for which there is no evidence should not be believed?

Literally any time anyone cites that people did something before modern medicine rather than cite an actual scientific mechanism by which something works, you should be very suspicious.
Even 150 years ago the field of medicine was a complete joke filled mostly with quackery

>>9948218
You not looking for evidence doesn't mean evidence doesn't exist. I don't go looking for rattlesnakes, but they still exist.
Also, this isn't a "folk remedy" in the manner you seem to think it is. It's been an established treatment for hundreds of years, and continues to be, in countries who haven't been brainwashed, apparently.

>>9948325
I looked it up as a result of this thread, I couldn't find any studies claiming benefit, the idea that modern doctors and people are all brainwashed, and it was actually old timey folk who knew the real truth is fucking horseshit

I mean if it makes you feel better, go for it, but its almost certainly just a placebo effect

>>9948325
You won't convince a pirate pharma/medfag from the land of corporate pillaging that thousands of year old treatments have benefits unless they, their industry, do confirmation studies costing millions of dollars which they'll never do because they can't profit from it. So you get the same tiresome shpiel that "anything but our latin speaking secret club, religous cult is fake news." The medfag pirates, at least in 'murrica, have no interest in health or well being, just how much they can suck out of you.

>>9948653
If pharmaceutical companies should be held to that standard why shouldn't your quackery?


Seriously though, I can't tell if your post is serious or meant to be parody of liberal health beliefs

>>9948097
>There is evidence that acupuncture works, though.
Post it.

>Also, the chapel is in the hospital, near surgeries and icu, for obvious reasons. That's not remotely the same as therapy centers. Your logic is flawed.
The term used was "wellness center" which offers spa services, so it's actually even worse.

>>9948694
He just wants the good old days of 30% child mortality back

>>9948766
Seriously, so many people misunderstand how shitty the past was to a huge degree. Pretty much everything is way the fuck better than at any point in history thanks to science and capitalism

>>9943470
I like himalayan salt. It looks very cute too.

>>9948766
He's larping as a mystic.
next he'll tell us that astrology is correct and that the earth is flat.

>>9948842
don't forget that vaccines are bad and GMO foods give you cancer or some shit

>>9948694
>parody of liberal health beliefs
>i'm proud of the fact the WHO ranks the US healthcare system 37th in the world, 2 positions above Cuba at 39th, lol.
I can't tell if you're trying to parody US cuckservative banana republic healthcare or serious, but whatever, pirate. Don't you have a downpayment on your Vail condo to make with the senior's life savings you've sucked away?

>>9943474
have fun with the anti caking agent and sugar, dumbfuck.

>>9949019
the WHO ranks the US low for cost reasons, not quality of outcomes.
Also this has nothing to do with America, its not like any of the higher rated ones believe in fucking salt rooms, they all have real doctors with real educations too

>>9943536
implying celts = irish

>>9949053
>the US low for cost reasons
How dare they embarass you for making enough money to buy a swiss chalet by literally keeping people on life support so you can steal their life savings, right?
>they judge me too harshly. I'm acshually like really smart and a stable genius

>>9949332
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>>9949332
This has literally nothing to do with what the other guy was arguing against? Not believing in bullshit is not the same as sucking the American health care systems cock.

>>9949331
Celtic almost always is used to refer to Irish in modern terminology. Unless you are speaking of ancient Celtic peoples, but surely the phrase "celtic salt" implies it is coming from Ireland, not a different region where celtic people used to inhabit

>>9949332
regardless of whether that is a problem. It has nothing to do with American doctors being "brainwashed" against literally fake medicines

like your comment has literally nothing to do with our topic

>>9943474
I agree that OP's pic is bullshit, but when I first tried himalayan salt it tasted...for a lack of a better description...saltier than table salt. I think it works better than table salt.

>>9950317
>saltier than table salt
Anyone who says that ultimately tasted a higher quantity of one type of salt compared to another.

>>9948704
The wellness center attached to my hospital is where all the physical therapy takes place, plus a gym, 6 lane lap pool, and therapy pool. There's no "spa". You're an ignoramus.

>>9948604
>salt has a placebo effect

I fucking dare you to ask a qualified doctor, you goddamn idiot.

>>9947214
you do realize that it isn't ten years ago and there is evidence of acupuncture helping people with nerve pain right? Just because we don't understand HOW it works doesn't mean it DOESN'T work, grandpa

>>9943470
LOL

Alkalize your body by drinking caustic soda

>>9948806
Yes, mighty capitalism! Great in theory, but like most great ideas, it's been shamefully abused by certain groups of people to detrimental effect.
I'm not anti-capitalism, but it's not the holy grail of economic systems, that's for fucking sure, and things are going to get much worse.

>>9948806
>Thanks to capitalism
Here we go....

>>9950472
>Great in theory
Great in practice

>>9946796
If you can give her some useful advice tell her to eat raw garlic - preferably finely grated

The NO released by it should help her blood flow, might alleviate hypertension ( although really she needs a beta blocker from the sounds of it)

>>9944850
>payday

>>9943470
I actually bought some PHS because the grocery store I went to was full of artisanal New Zealand solar sea salt shit and similar fuckery, and the cheapest crap on the shelves was PHS. Turns out they bury the plain old table salt in a completely separate part of the store. Anyway, I dissolved some in some water to cook some cauliflower in it, and ended up with a bunch of pink sand in the bottom of the pot.

Stupidest shit ever. Who the fuck wants to eat sand with their food?

>>9948806
So much this. I have a weird genetic problem with my liver that makes about 10% of medications (more like 50% of the stuff that's commonly used) simply not work. Takes about two months from starting to take the drugs to when they become completely useless. All of you fucking shitstains who think life is better with quackery should trade livers with me and see what life is like when the best-working antidepressants, blood pressure CCB medications, and even basic antibiotics are all unavailable to you.

Fortunately, CRISPR/CAS9 means that in five to ten years I will likely be able to engage in self-mutilation of my liver to nuke the everliving shit out of the DNA that codes for the overproduction of certain enzymes. Hell, I could probably even do it today if I want to risk it, but I'm willing to wait a little longer so that the lab-rat geniuses can get the details worked out.

It ain't the Indian designated-shitting-streets mystics who came up with that. Nor was it the ching-chong sukiyaki kung-fu motherfuckers who figured out how to stab needles into people's eyeballs.

Hail science, and hail the capitalism that makes it possible.

>>9951360
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/609904/uh-oh-crispr-might-not-work-in-people/

what you're essentially doing is banking your future on winning the lottery
you don't know what's going to happen, early investors have a lot of incentive to hype the shit out of untested technology, and oh btw. most of those drug trials that will check for this sort of thing will happen in shitting-street countries where there aren't any regulations to protect people from mad scientists. so you should probably be a little nicer to those people for being guinea pigs.

>>9947035
I'm from Palo Alto, one of the most librul arts barista prius organic bubbles in all of California, and the only antivaxer I know is my redneck cousin (male) in flyover land

>>9943470
Nothing will ever be saltier than this.

>>9943651
>Kosher
I am not a fucking jew.

>>9951418
I stopped playing this game like 2 years ago and I still have nightmares about it on a semi-regular basis.
Just the other night I was struggling to fall asleep after being suddenly hit by the memory of how I lost a placement match the one time I tried to play ranked with a friend.
That game is not good for your mental, physical or financial health and everyone should stay away from it.

>>9951468
>>9951418
whenever I see someone posting something incredibly dumb on leddit and I check their post history, "league of legends" always seems to feature prominently in their interests. I assumed it was a game but beyond that I have no idea what it is. what's special about it?

>>9945199
Bullshit the Dutch and Spanish were worse at keeping colonies

>>9951479
It's popular, free and not particularly complicated to pick up. Lots of kids play it in their spare time.
The main reason I stopped is the realization that it was at least as stressful as it was fun and a strong feeling that I had "aged out" of the community. I wouldn't be surprised if the average player is between 14-17 years old.
It's just not something an adult that cares about their mental health should bother with, you've never experienced frustration until you've played a MOBA.

>>9951468
Remove 'financial health' from that description and it'd fit DOTA as well (if you don't buy any cosmetics, that is).

>>9951489
I honestly think competitive gaming it one of the worst things you can do to yourself. People shouldn't be putting themselves through that much stress unless there is a war going on.

>>9946612
My mum bought one, it 'removes positive eons [sic] from the air'.
I studied chemistry at college and she still trusted an amazon product description over me when I told her it was bullshit.
Looks nice, though.

>>9951507
When you're 16 years old and full of energy in need of an outlet you could potentially do worse. Past 22 or so you're beginning to seriously push the limits of your sanity. For the most part I agree, when you step back and realize you're investing all of your mental energy into a video game you don't even find fun anymore it's time to stop.

>>9951507
ANYTHING becomes toxic if you approach it with that kind of hypercompetitive, sociopathic mindset.

>>9943474
>he likes refined salt without minerals

Impurities aren't always bad, anon. Why would you say no to better tasting, healthier options? Would you say molasses is 'worse' than HFCS?

>>9943470
>Regulates water content
>Builds immunity
>Helps absorb food particles
>Improves brain function
Its fucking salt. Thats what an appropriate daily intake of salt does. Im surprised these snake oil salesmen didnt include cardiovascular health because thats one of the biggest advantages of proper sodium intake.

>>9943474
>le mother jones contrarian
eating carcinogenic boxed food to own the hipsters animal style

For me it's potassium chloride,the best tablesalt.

>>9943470
Can I see the studies that show these salts have special effects like the ones listed that normal table salt doesn't provide?

>>9945258
Have you ever considered that the subsidization of Northern Ireland might have something to do with that? I'm not saying that it's nessarily true in this case, but oftentimes it's been found that complete economic independence breeds efficiency in a way that economic codependency doesn't.

>>9949029
>There's impurities in table salt

Move to a real country with real food safety laws.

>>9952624
>there's
Learn English.

>>9952638
>there's
>contraction of there is
Maybe take your own advice faggot.