Asking here because we don’t really have a cooking community lol

I’ve tried my share of salt; Himalayan pink, Persian blue, even smoked salt which gives off a nice smoky smell

But they all taste the same. It’s salt.

Am I missing something or is their value solely predicated on the geographical origins + unique colors?

  • ReadFanon
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    11 months ago

    Iodized salt is proletarian salt. i.e. it’s what your diet probably needs unless you’re consuming a lot of seafood (or seaweed) on a regular basis.

    Morton salt can be really nice as a finishing salt for dishes where the texture and additional flavour pop is a feature, e.g. on something like salted cookies or a salad where you sprinkle salt on the top. (This can also apply to things like smoked salt but unless you are aficionado or you’ve got a dish where you want a smokey flavour to be isolated from the rest of the dish to provide feature and heterogeneity in flavours, it’s not really worth it and you’re likely to be better off using just using smoked paprika or liquid smoke instead.)

    Most other forms of salt are really just hype and marketing tbh except in the cases where you specifically require a size and shape of salt crystals for particular niche applications. The trace amount of minerals that you’ll get from “impure” salts are unlikely to contribute much to your nutritional needs unless you’re using copious amounts of salt.

    I don’t begrudge people who really dig their fancy salts at all however, don’t get me wrong. If it brings you joy then go hog wild on that stuff. But if you’re a pragmatic cook or you’re on a budget then there’s no reason why regular table salt (especially iodized salt) is perfectly fine to use.

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      11 months ago

      You pretty much confirmed all that I was thinking 😁

      Same with me, people are free to enjoy their Himalayan salt, it’s just that I don’t really get buying expensive salt when it’s effectively the same as table salt just because it has that “exotic” factor. Although you can get cheap Himalayan salt nowadays.