{"id":38061,"date":"2019-03-26T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38061"},"modified":"2024-05-01T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T22:29:27","slug":"qotd-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/03\/26\/qotd-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My grandfather used to say this all the time, and it\u2019s true. Salt brings out the flavor of the food, full stop. There are a great variety of salts, but the reality is they\u2019re all the same mineral. Coloration in salt comes from the minerals near the salt as it forms. There\u2019s nothing inherently better about colored salts, but the marketers selling you that stuff will try to convince you otherwise. I\u2019ve seen pink salt promoted as an \u201calternative\u201d salt that doesn\u2019t cause blood pressure issues. That\u2019s a lie. My advice is to buy kosher salt or the chunkier white salt if you like the crunchiness. If you really like the mild flavoring of gray salt, that\u2019s fine, just know that it\u2019s sold at a higher cost for what comes down to the same thing as my box of salt I can get for a couple bucks. And one more thing: All salt is sea salt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Salt grinders are bullshit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not done with salt yet: Don\u2019t put your salt in a grinder. All you\u2019re doing is making your salt smaller than it was before. Unlike pepper, which is actually processed in the grinder, salt does not need to be ground and is not fresher after coming out of a grinder. It\u2019s just smaller. Use a shaker.<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin PenzeyMoog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/salt-grinders-are-bullshit-and-other-lessons-growi-253193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Salt grinders are bullshit, and other lessons from growing up in the spice trade&#8221;, <em>The A.V. Club<\/em><\/a>, 2017-04-06.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandfather used to say this all the time, and it\u2019s true. Salt brings out the flavor of the food, full stop. There are a great variety of salts, but the reality is they\u2019re all the same mineral. Coloration in salt comes from the minerals near the salt as it forms. There\u2019s nothing inherently better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,66,41],"tags":[347,1543],"class_list":["post-38061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health-science","category-quotations","tag-debunking","tag-salt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9TT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88778,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38061\/revisions\/88778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}