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> Nancy Young wrote:
> > Puester wrote:
> >
> >> JB wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Can you use salt which is intended for an ice cream maker or to melt snow and ice on the
> >>> sidewalk in a salt mill?
> >>
> >> I wouldn't. You have no guarantee of purity and there may be other ice-melting chemicals added
> >> in addition to natural impurities.
> >>
> >> A box of kosher or other coarse salt is cheap.
> >
> > Ditto, it's not food grade. Who knows what kind of dirty circumstances is it packaged. Salt is
> > cheap, why go there.
> >
> > nancy
>
> I am a salt fanatic. And I have to think, back before there were food police, salt was as much of
> a commodity as pepper and spices were. So if someone ran across a mound of salt and dug some out
> and put it in their pouch for trading later, they weren't concerned about 'grade'.
>
> Having said that, when I was a teen my mom had a box of rock salt in the cabinet in the garage; I
> don't know why. But she was very disturbed when she discovered I'd eaten half of it. Yes, I eat
> salt by the handful. My doctor tells me this is because I have low blood pressure and my body
craves
> sodium which I tend to avoid otherwise. Whatever. I just love the taste
of
> salt.
>
> Jill
I used to use a lot of salt, so did my husband. In fact, he salted things I wouldn't even
salt...like spaghetti for instance. So much, it looked like snowfall... ;-) Then I got into spices
and herbs and I cut back on salt because, to me, it covered the other flavors too much. Now I hardly
use it. I use it in the cooking water for pasta and potatoes, and on some veggies like corn.
Especially corn on the cob! I can't imagine it without salt! The reason I responded though was
because before my last pregnancy, when I used to use alot of salt, I also had low blood
pressure...it never occured to me it may be connected! It was interesting to learn that, so thanks!
kimberly