/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.20243489]

What's the best salt out there? Obviously plain salt is plain salt, but I mainly mean the regional sea salts where there's local minerals mixed into it too. Are any of them actually good or is it all a meme?

[Anonymous No.20243650]

>>20243489
>local minerals

[Anonymous No.20243839]

>>20243650
Yeah stuff like Tavira salt, or Cornish sea salt. Does it actually taste different, is it worth trying?

[Anonymous No.20243847]

Fancy salts are a huge waste of money.

[Anonymous No.20243851]

I prefer iodized salt. Iodine is essential, and the sodium chloride is otherwise pure.
For all I know, there could be feces in those fancy salts. Sea salt is also just as mysterious, although it most likely comes from desalination plants. Or nuclear reactors. Who knows?

[Anonymous No.20243882]

>>20243839
I use Maldon daily and also to pre-season my seafood dishes before cooking, and put it in/on my ice creams, sweet whipped creams, and desserts. It has a balanced flavor, and not acutely salty on the pallet before dissolving into subtler flavors. A few months back I bought Jacobsen salt. It wasn't as good, and I found it to be too strongly salty for my pallet.

[Anonymous No.20243899]

>>20243489
Why would I tell you?
You clearly don't know what you're doing when it comes to salt, and I'm not about to have a bunch of good salt wasted by someone without the skill.

[Anonymous No.20243903]

>>20243899
>Why would I tell you?
>You clearly don't know what you're doing when it comes to salt, and I'm not about to have a bunch of good salt wasted by someone without the skill.
So in other words, you also have no clue.

[Anonymous No.20243911]

>>20243899
Share your salty secrets or this gets messy

[Anonymous No.20243915]

>>20243911
Woah take it easy!

[Anonymous No.20243921]

>>20243915
DO IT! THE SALT! TELL ME THE BEST KINDS RIGHT NOW! RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

[Anonymous No.20243923]

>>20243921
iodized table salt

[Anonymous No.20243931]

>>20243923
>iodized table salt
The second best salt is Garlic Salt, although minced garlic with iodized salt added to it works also. Third is Lawry's Seasoned Soap (good for seasoning cast iron pans).
I don't really see much value in paying extra for "dirty" and impure salts. At least iodine has a use.

[Anonymous No.20243935]

>>20243839
>100 year old salt
no thanks, I prefer mine fresh

[Anonymous No.20243949]

>>20243851
>there could be feces in those fancy salts
Anon, industrialized salt is made through pumping brine into vast shallow open-air pools.

There's shit in it. There's shit in all salts. I'm sorry to break it to you.

[Anonymous No.20243954]

>>20243489
Diamond or Maldon if you are pretentious

[Anonymous No.20243956]

>>20243949
>There's shit in it. There's shit in all salts. I'm sorry to break it to you.
Hahaha... that has to be an AI generated image. There's no way that is true.
Salt is manufactured by mixing pure sodium with pure chlorine. Everyone knows this.

[Anonymous No.20243961]

>>20243489
The pink Himalayan salt seems to have a little etang, but it's probably psychosomatic.

[Anonymous No.20243971]

>>20243935
>prefer mine fresh
Enjoy your microplastics anon.

[Anonymous No.20244013]

>>20243931
ayo das rite craKKA wippipo don season dey food o wash dey meats usually but you aight

[Anonymous No.20244093]

>>20244013
this poster likes tonguing nikocados asshole nice and deep

[Anonymous No.20244102]

>>20243489
If you can tell the difference, wow.

Maximum doubt. Try blind test

[Anonymous No.20244103]

Look i hate jews but it's Diamond Crystal Kosher

[Anonymous No.20244107]

Unless you get salt that came out of a mine, it's contaminated with micro plastics.

[Anonymous No.20244440]

>>20243949
there's shit everywhere, we are constantly breathing and eating shit, the bacteria in and on us are shitting and farting until we turn to dust, which gets mixed in with shit. this is a world of shit and bones, we cannot escape it

[Anonymous No.20244451]

>>20243489
The cute one with the little retarded girl dropping all her salt.

[Anonymous No.20244457]

>>20244451
shitty brat, spilling all the salt!

[Anonymous No.20244555]

>>20243971
No one is ever going to take your microplastic blood concentration and say "Ah it's quite low, I bet this guy was eating aged salt"

[Anonymous No.20244594]

>>20243961
How much of this stuff is left? Surely, it will not last forever. I expect the price to increase manifold in the latter days of remaining supply. Ofc, by then, perhaps meme salts will go out of vogue.

[Anonymous No.20244631]

>>20243489
Noniodized salt. If you eat a varied diet you'll get plenty of iodine from other sources and your salt won't have the strange taste iodized salt gives. You want ideally a coarse salt, and you want to get an idea of how much salt is in a pinch of your salt so you don't have to measure while cooking.

[Anonymous No.20246440]

>>20243489
This is good and cheap, any french grey sea salt is of the gods. "fleur de sel" if you wanna get fancy

[Anonymous No.20246466]

>>20246440
>honhonhon oui oui americans, buy our gross salt, it's le gourmet!

[Anonymous No.20246560]

>>20246466
go eat another poptart

[Anonymous No.20247695]

I am pretty sure that, scientifically, there is no difference to any of these salts.

But I am equally sure that science is a load of demoralizing, devaluing, material-deterministic hogwash and that the human experience is as, if not more, important to our continued survival and growth. And I'm not even just talking about "the placebo effect". I believe that every unique thing we do on this earth and every novel experience we have creates modes of perspective and emotional state, that enable new and vibrant living thought patterns that contribute to the range of further experience and ideas we're capable of attaining in the future. "Science" has lost its luster; adhering to only what can be discovered in a carefully controlled peer reviewed study filters the perceptions of humanity into a grey goo of clinical meaninglessness. I believe it is necessary, even paramount to re-embrace creative and magical thinking, not necessarily because they are "true" but because the more diversity of thought that exists, the safer the overall "gene pool" of ideas remains and the more likely that unique and novel groundbreaking solutions and discoveries will be discovered by people who haven't been indoctrinated to think only in one box. And even something as seemingly insignificant and trivial as enjoying different types of salt may be part of that way of experiencing the world.

[Anonymous No.20247698]

>>20247695

I don't mean that everyone should believe X instead of Y, quite the opposite, it's actually to our benefit if we all believe many different things (where appropriate- certain cultural traditional standards are important in small enough closed systems), and that some of our ideas succeed and some of them fail. The last thing science should be doing is trying to force everyone into the same box of "one and only truth". It's brought us very far out of the realms of disease and darkness, I don't deny that- save only that we've reached a tipping point, we've conquered most of our old biological foes now and we need to realize, for our own future, that it's possible to take even a good idea too far and lose something in the process of aligning ourselves to it unquestioningly.

tldr try the salt, it's good

[Anonymous No.20247707]

>>20247695
same tbqh

[Anonymous No.20247719]

Obviously Jukyeom is the best salt, if you just use sodium chloride please just don't salt your food at all, you're just eating a pale imitation of flavor

[Anonymous No.20247726]

>>20243949
do you think the salt industry gets most of its salt from salt flats and evaporation? the vast majority is mined

[Anonymous No.20247731]

>>20247695
>I am pretty sure that, scientifically, there is no difference to any of these salts
>shows image of salt with a different color
are you fucking stupid? do you think colors are some metaphysical force precluded from "science"? yeah if you don't understand science at all and just use it as a buzzword I suppose it'd be demoralizing
minerals have taste, especially in raw in-processed forms that might appear in salt. there is NO QUESTION that wild salts taste different from processed fine salt, the discussion that's worth having is whether that is a noticable, worthwhile, or even desirable difference(it isn't, spend your money elsewhere)

[Anonymous No.20248029]

>>20247731
grey sea salt is way better than processed, you have to taste for yourself

[Anonymous No.20248525]

I just want the Aqua Laguna salt from One Piece.