Kosher Salt?

Susan Sanders-Kinzel
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September 25, 20020 found this helpful

Kosher salt is salt inspected and blessed by a Rabbi. It is non iodized and generally thought to be best for pickling.

Babette

July 4, 20070 found this helpful

kosher dissolve faster than table salt, this way when you salt your food you get the salty taste right away, with table salt it takes a while to dissolve and you may keep adding salt then it's too salty

Chayil

January 4, 20090 found this helpful

Kosher salt can be any of several things.

Babbie is correct when she mentions the chemical properties of the product packaged as Kosher Salt. It is also more coarse than table salt, and for this reason makes a good abrasive when cleaning. Different salts have subtly different flavors as well; my favorites are sea salt and kosher (pickling) salt, which is called kosher salt because it's used when making kosher dill pickles.

ThriftyFun is, forgive me, mistaken. Making something kosher -- a factory, a kitchen, or a food -- doesn't involve blessing anything. Kosher means "fit, proper, legal." So what is Kosher? When asked, we smile politely and set the record straight.

If you're curious, kitchensavvy.typepad.com/.../what_makes_salt.html has some information about kosher salt. I found it accurate.

Chayil

January 4, 20090 found this helpful

Babbie got kosher salt and table salt exactly backwards. I apologize for saying otherwise. Kosher salt is used for kashering meat (making kosher-slaughtered meat fit to eat by removing the blood from it) precisely because it does NOT dissolve as quickly as regular table salt.