Today you can get all sorts of salt, garlic salt, chicken salt etc.

But, Himalayan Pink Rock salt!!!

A collegue at work put me onto this stuff and now my sons right into it. It can't be just everyday table salt and it's not salt unless it's Himulayan Salt.

I love the marketing on this:

Himalayan pink rock salt has a rich mineral content that includes over 84 minerals and trace elements with a range of health benefits. It was originally formed from marine fossil deposits over 250 million year ago during the Jurassic era.

Now, if only the dinosaurs new they eventually end up on our kitchen table to be consumed as food flavouring.... 250 million years ago..... I think most will prefer to be cremated.....

BTW, you think that 250million years in the ground you'd expect that it last longer than what the Best Before date 25/8/17.

Edited December 29, 201510 yr by Addicted to music

I used to enjoy Himalayan pink rock salt. A great seasoning. Nom nom nom! 

 

But now I gotta cut sodium from me diet (stupid heart!), so all I got is the memory, and I live vicariously through others' enjoyment of it.

 

--Geoff 

my kids have a science CD that they listen to which claims that salt has no taste, it just enhances flavour

my kids have a science CD that they listen to which claims that salt has no taste, it just enhances flavour

And causes heart disease....

we prefer the Murray River pink salt - it crumbles much more easily, and doesn't get transported half way across the world to get to our kitchen

 

 

Mike

my kids have a science CD that they listen to which claims that salt has no taste, it just enhances flavour

It doesn't but the other additives like minerals might have some taste.

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Nothing too wrong with salt without it we will die we just need to consume it in moderation

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Its (mostly) sodium chloride. It has a tendency to raise blood pressure.

 

I never add salt to cooking or put it on food, there is usually far too much hidden salt in the food we eat anyway.

 

But I do eat vegemite sometimes (I have no idea why I do that).

 

Himalayan pink rock salt has a rich mineral content that includes over 84 minerals and trace elements with a range of health benefits. It was originally formed from marine fossil deposits over 250 million year ago during the Jurassic era.

Now, if only the dinosaurs new they eventually end up on our kitchen table to be consumed as food flavouring.... 250 million years ago.... . I think most will prefer to be cremated.....

BTW, you think that 250million years in the ground you'd expect that it last longer than what the Best Before date 25/8/17.

 

Mineral contents would include dinosaur droppings, fruit bat "residue",  possible nuclear contamination from Chernobyl via underground seepage, and mountain goats signing their name in the snow giving it that 250 million year antique look.

 

It's obviously a ruse set up to make the future importing of illegal substances easier, I wouldn't touch it myself, and would take its claims with a pinch of SAXA.

 

Does your friend travel a lot to exotic places ? I would be wary if he ever wanted to mail you any.

Cooked sea food on blocks of HPS but don't use it as a normal salt, prefer the French stuff dried out of the ocean. Victor Churchill's use the HPS in a most decorative way whilst reducing humidity in their butchery.

I prefer rock salt myself. To classical salt or jazz salt, anyway...

Oh yeah, count me as a member of the Himalayan Rock Salt group....we get ours at Aldi....check it out in a store near you !

Ya know what's even better MSG infused salt Asians often use. Actual umami there

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BTW, you think that 250million years in the ground you'd expect that it last longer than what the Best Before date 25/8/17.

If you don't dig that salt out from where it has been it will be fine for years to come

If you pull it out of the ground/water/wherever and expose it to foreign elements it will have a limited shelf life.

Surely you understand this....?

Salt is salt......until we start messing with it and processing it and adding stuff to it.

If you think adding SAXA table salt to your cooking is the same as freshly ground sea/rock/himalayan salt.....good for you,

Don't say it

Don't say it

Don't say it.......

BLIIIIIIIIND TEEEEEEEEST!!!!!

Dammit

Edited December 30, 201510 yr by Dirty_vinylpusher

Its (mostly) sodium chloride. It has a tendency to raise blood pressure.

 

I never add salt to cooking or put it on food, there is usually far too much hidden salt in the food we eat anyway.

 

But I do eat vegemite sometimes (I have no idea why I do that).

The salt content of Vegemite has been slowly being reduced for many years so the consumers gets conditioned to it

.....

I love the marketing on this:

Himalayan pink rock salt has a rich mineral content that includes over 84 minerals and trace elements with a range of health benefits. It was originally formed from marine fossil deposits over 250 million year ago during the Jurassic era.

Now, if only the dinosaurs new they eventually end up on our kitchen table to be consumed as food flavouring.... 250 million years ago...

 

Spin is entertaining but

 

"Himalayan Rock Salt" isnt from the actual Himalayas - its mined on the Punjab plain by the Pakistan Government which then takes the profits

 

It  "contains negligible amounts of Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium, Sulfates and moisture, with Iron, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, Chromium and Lead as trace elements.^[25][26"

 

thats about eight trace minerals rather then the claimed 84

 

unfortunately  includes lead which makes the claimed health benefits look suspect

 

It was created hundreds of millions of years before the Jurassic period began, before even the forerunners to dinosaurs crawled out of the sea so is guaranteed dinosaur free. However the mine got flooded a few years back which might explain some of those added "trace minerals".

 

It was discovered by Alexandra the Great's horses. Luckily for them no Public Health researchers had told them salt is bad for you so the horse's licked the salt rocks and recovered their strength. Sodium in salt is vital for nerve function.

 

 

In contrast to the pretty pick salt  aussie table salt is lead free and has the wonderful natural trace element called iodine added so you dont grow a goiter.

Hey but its pinky pretty cutey

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Himalayan rock salt has its uses. First point: from a nutritional perspective it is no different to normal salt.

Next point: its only use is as a garnish, where you might want the pink appearance and the salty crunch of whole flakes. If you use it to flavour your soup, or risotto, or any application where it is dissolved, you may as well use normal salt. It's cheaper. 

Today you can get all sorts of salt, garlic salt, chicken salt etc.

But, Himalayan Pink Rock salt!!!

A collegue at work put me onto this stuff and now my sons right into it. It can't be just everyday table salt and it's not salt unless it's Himulayan Salt.

I love the marketing on this:

Himalayan pink rock salt has a rich mineral content that includes over 84 minerals and trace elements with a range of health benefits. It was originally formed from marine fossil deposits over 250 million year ago during the Jurassic era.

Now, if only the dinosaurs new they eventually end up on our kitchen table to be consumed as food flavouring.... 250 million years ago.... . I think most will prefer to be cremated.....

BTW, you think that 250million years in the ground you'd expect that it last longer than what the Best Before date 25/8/17.

 

 

I bet you they dont spell out what those "health benefits" are... would have the therapeutic goods administration all over them like a rash before they knew it.

 

the only health benefits or should we say effects I know salt cause is higher blood pressure and heart disease.

 

and less consumed of the stuff the better no matter whether its from the himalayans or wherever.

 

yeah whats with the best before does salt go off hehe

Himalayan rock salt has its uses. First point: from a nutritional perspective it is no different to normal salt.

Next point: its only use is as a garnish, where you might want the pink appearance and the salty crunch of whole flakes. If you use it to flavour your soup, or risotto, or any application where it is dissolved, you may as well use normal salt. It's cheaper. 

 

Well, actually, it's not....by a long way.

SAXA sea salt flakes are around $7 for 100gms.

River Murray pink salt is around $4 per 100g.

Himalayan Rock is around $3 per 100g.

At least in my neck of the woods it is......

I bet you they dont spell out what those "health benefits" are... would have the therapeutic goods administration all over them like a rash before they knew it.

 

the only health benefits or should we say effects I know salt cause is higher blood pressure and heart disease.

 

and less consumed of the stuff the better no matter whether its from the himalayans or wherever.

 

yeah whats with the best before does salt go off hehe

 

Check a bottle of water.

Got the same.

Himalayan rock salt has its uses. First point: from a nutritional perspective it is no different to normal salt.

Next point: its only use is as a garnish, where you might want the pink appearance and the salty crunch of whole flakes. If you use it to flavour your soup, or risotto, or any application where it is dissolved, you may as well use normal salt. It's cheaper.

Define "normal salt"

Homebrand table salt?

SAXA table salt?

Salt flakes?

Rock salt?

Do you prefer powdered black pepper or grinding your own?

Mmmmm?

 

yeah whats with the best before does salt go off hehe

Leave some in the pantry for 4 years and see how it goes

Check a bottle of water.

Got the same.

problem with bottled water is the bottle and the bugs that potentially could grow in stagnant water its been either ozonated or chlorinated but effects of that dont last for ever. not sure anything grows in salt