It's getting near dinner time here and I have a hankering for some Halibut Fish and Chips. I am going to get an order to go.

At the last minute I realized that I am out of salt, but I can stop by the store to get some.

Because it is what I grew up with, I have always been partial to Morton salt -- "When it rains it pours".

But, before I go off and blow a bunch of cash on salt, I figured it would make sense to poll the BBS.

Salt: Just some crystalline white stuff or something I need to pay attention to???

I don't know the answer to your question except to say it's all up to you.

I buy this stuff.
http://www.realsalt.com/
http://www.internet-grocer.net/salt.htm

(I don't know internet-grocer.net. I just read their write-up and thought to link to it.)

I confess to evil-ness. I just thought I would post something about a very generic subsnce -- NaCl -- and see how long it took for the thread to trigger Godwin's law.

Sooo, is Morton now a wholly-owned subsidiary of some megacorp like Cargill or ADM?

I was just surprised at how quickly the discussion about cordless drills took off....

Jim

obviously, cordless drills != generic substance

I confess to using that Malden sea salt nowadays, which does indeed go for Dewalt-style prices when compared to standard Saxo. I think it's nicer, though I've not done double-blind tasting. (But if I'm adding salt to a dish, I'll pour out the salt onto my hand until it looks like the right amount, then cast it into the pan -- and afterwards I find I lick any stray crystals off my hand, which I'd never have bothered doing with Saxo.) I kid myself that sea salt, with a wider range of halides, is stronger (more saltiness per gram) than rock salt and so healthier because you use less -- but it could be all in my head.

Peter

It's very easy to find non-iodized table salt without paying an arm and a leg. Morton makes it, and it's the exact same price as the iodized stuff here.

I am also a fan of Malden, haven't gone as far as buying their "organic" sea salt yet. I struggle to understand how sea salt can be anything other than "organic".

I heard that the Morton company started as an offshoot of the Third Reich...