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

Don't forget that salt is used as a preservative, as not many organisms can live in salty conditions.

Define "normal salt"

Homebrand table salt?

SAXA table salt?

Salt flakes?

Rock salt?

Do you prefer powdered black pepper or grinding your own?

Mmmmm?

 

"Normal" salt is ordinary granulated table salt. I usually buy Saxa. 

I normally stock about 4-5 types of salt in my kitchen. The Saxa granulated table salt, "cooking" crystal salt (useful for things like salt baked chicken ... also very inexpensive, so it's good for making brines), and a few types of garnishing salts. Right now, I have Fleur de Sel (a French salt harvested from dried river beds, has a nice crunch and looks pretty), charcoal salt (when I want flakes of black salt), and the above Himalayan pink salt flakes. 

Pepper is a different story. A lot of pepper flavour comes from volatiles, so it is advantageous to grind it fresh. Salt, not so much. 

Try bamboo-roasted salt and report back...

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Pink Himalayan sea salt was introduced to me by an e-mail correspondent who questioned the claim that it contained “84 trace minerals that promote health and well being.†I questioned it too, so I did a little research.

Mike Adams, the infamous Health Ranger, explains that Himalayan Pink Crystal Salt contains the full complement of minerals and trace elements “just like Mother Earth intended.†It is an unrefined, unprocessed raw salt mined by hand from salt caves that formed 250 million years ago as ocean salt settled into geologic pockets. It is stone-ground, which apparently doesn’t count as “processing.†Table salt is bad stuff, you see, since it was processed to remove all the good stuff and then they had to replace the iodine because people who ate it started to get goiters. Oh, and incidentally he sells the good stuff on his website and even offers a discount.

I found a website that reports the results of a spectral analysis of Himalayan salt. I think this is where the claim comes from. Even if this analysis is accurate, it is meaningless for health and if anything is worrisome. The amount of minerals in it is too minuscule to make any difference, and we already get plenty of the same trace minerals from other foods. They claim that two double-blind studies were done, but no such studies are listed in PubMed. There is no evidence published in peer-reviewed journals that replacing white salt with pink salt makes a shred of difference or leads to any improvement in health.

If you read down the list of minerals, you will notice that it includes a number of radioactive substances like radium, uranium, and polonium. It also includes substances that act as poisons, like thallium. I wouldn’t be worried, since the amounts are so small; but if anyone believes the trace amounts of “good†minerals in Himalayan sea salt are good for you, why not believe the trace amounts of poisons and radioactive elements are bad for you?

The claim that pink Himalayan salt contains 84 trace minerals may be true, but the claim that it “promotes health and wellness†is false until proven otherwise by legitimate clinical studies. While waiting for evidence, I’d just as soon my salt didn’t contain uranium.

 

From this link

From this link

 

 

the last I looked, it didn’t seem to glow in the dark....  

Coal is relatively high in radioactives and I see no particular problem in cooking with that, either. Each to their own.

We use salt when cooking these.

Comes free in the river water

(The salt and crabs, JD not so much)

From this link

That's the one showing that between 3-6g of salt a day is best for you. Less than 3g a day, or more than 6g a day, significantly increases your risk of dying or having a heart attack. Unfortunately, with so many prepackaged products having salt already included, working out how much you can sprinkle on top becomes a bit of a problem.

 

Except when you're doing your own cooking from scratch...so salt on mashed potatoes is fine!

Speaking of the dead sea, that's a crazy place.

I lived in Israel for a while, and had a pretty nasty cut on my hand.

As I was working in the Kibbutz kitchen as a dish pig, it never really healed over, due to constantly being wet and so on.

Went swimming (bobbing) in the dead sea and it healed up completely in 2 days.

(It did sting a bit at the time)

Also covered myself in the dead sea mud and felt a lot younger immediately.

And then it dried and I felt like a crumbling gingerbread man

Yep, sticking any wound in the ocean anywhere (well, maybe not Bondi, haha!) will accelerate the healing process, for some reason.

Anytime I have had stiches or cuts etc, off to the beach. Have heard no end of warnings about doing it but it has worked 100% of the time with no negative effects.

It killed my uncle though. He got one of those salt water borne bugs (Vibrio vulniicus) in his blood through a cut in brackish water at a boat ramp, canna remember if it was Evans Head or Ballina, he was dead a few days later. Chances are miniscule but it happens. He had numerous existing health issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrio_vulnificus

I digress. Salt. I love it. Plain on hot chips. Not that chicken crap.

Edited December 31, 201510 yr by Darren69

Yep, sticking any wound in the ocean anywhere (well, maybe not Bondi, haha!) will accelerate the healing process, for some reason.

Anytime I have had stiches or cuts etc, off to the beach. Have heard no end of warnings about doing it but it has worked 100% of the time with no negative effects.

It killed my uncle though. He got one of those salt water borne bugs (Vibrio vulniicus) in his blood through a cut in brackish water at a boat ramp, canna remember if it was Evans Head or Ballina, he was dead a few days later. Chances are miniscule but it happens. He had numerous existing health issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrio_vulnificus

I digress. Salt. I love it. Plain on hot chips. Not that chicken crap.

 

sh!te ! thats very sad to read. I had nothing remotely similar but with brackish water myself ended up with some lumps one under the left boob and one under the arm...apparently a normal body immune system response to to these kind of things but sent my doctor into overdrive sending me off for x rays and ultrasound to make sure it wasnt cancer !!! fortunately wasnt and the lumps disagreed in good time...

Salt.

I love it.

Plain on hot chips.

Not that chicken crap.

People put chicken crap on chips?

Know what's real good with chips? Maccas soft ice cream. Mmmmm

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Know what's real good with chips? Maccas soft ice cream. Mmmmm

Know what's good with everything?

Beer!

I like the Murray River salt best, the wife likes the Himalayan salt more. We also use this stuff (more for medicinal reasons as opposed to flavour. Its exceptionally strong):

 

People put chicken crap on chips?

How else do you boast that immune system on salmonella...

the hidden killer....

 

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/the-hidden-killer--youre-eating-it-20151222-gltbmk.html

the hidden killer....

 

....along with sugar, fat, gluten, etc etc etc etc

....along with sugar, fat, gluten, etc etc etc etc

 

gluten is no killer....its more those that believe it is ...theyre the kill joys...wife bought these chocolate cookies...now most chocolate cookies I tend to know when they are on the premises and they are soon devoured...not these things ...she can have them...I told her theyre kind of thing I would have loved to have as a kid....to use in my catapult hehe...she pointed to the gluten free it says on the pack..say no more....  

Things labelled killers like salt and sugar are actually a vital part of our diet, we just eat far too much of them given how removed from the food chain a first world country tends to be.

 

It's really difficult to cut down on them unless you only eat home cooked food prepared from raw ingredients - I'd love to have the time to do that don't have it when I'm working.

gluten is no killer

I know, it was a bit tongue in cheek

That said, I know a number of people who feel a lot better since going wheat/gluten free and/or paleo (my partner being one of them).

A lot of people seem to do it just "because" however and there's a lot of hipster **** attached to it, which is unfortunate.

Personally I don't mind most of the gluten free products.

It's not like vegan soy bacon or anything like that.

That said, I've been to the "Paleo cafe" in town, which was a very disappointing and overpriced experience....

Things labelled killers like salt and sugar are actually a vital part of our diet.

Of course, there's plenty of books and studies where people have completely cut them out of their diets, and feel sooooooo much better.

we just eat far too much of them

Yeah, everything in moderation, as always.

....or so I'm told

Edited January 2, 201610 yr by Dirty_vinylpusher