Buying Sea Salt? You Might Be a Sucker.

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No serious chef would ever claim that sea salt has a discernible taste from regular salt; it's the texture that matters. I have certain dishes where I will only use sea salt and other dishes where it doesn't matter.

The iodine issue is true, although you would have to go out of your way to get iodine deficiency living in any 1st world country.

Yeah, when you use sea salt, you're not using it everywhere, usually just at the end for presentation - otherwise it's just going to dissolve anyway, so there's no point in using it elsewhere.

And as you mentioned, getting enough iodine isn't that difficult, especially given the amount of salt in most of what we eat, and the ability to get enough with some yogurt, cheese, and eating fish regularly. Besides, if you think you aren't getting enough iodine, just start watching for a goiter! :)

Ted says:

You can buy 4 pounds of standard issue table salt for $5.37 on the internet. Alternatively, I've seen 4 ounces of sea salt for sale for $2.39. That's a markup of roughly 712%.

Sea salt is 5 pounds for $3, here: http://www.herbco.com/c-184-salt.aspx

It's not like salt is an expensive luxury item to begin with. What are you going to do with 4 pounds of salt? You shouldn't be consuming more than about half a gram of raw salt a day anyways.

The author states there is no metric of quality, "other than not mixed with dirt and glass shards", but then goes on to state that sea salt lacking iodine is a reason to choose one over the other. Does anyone else have an issue with that?

Um yeah, and telling other people how to live their lives makes you appear SO intelligent and mature!

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