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Pink Himalayan Salt is not terrible (1 Viewer)

Doctor Detroit

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I recently saw an episode of cops where they caught this known drug user and he said the packet in his wallet was not meth, but pink Himalayan Salt.

He was telling the truth. :lmao:

The guy totally sold me on this stuff so I tried it and it's quite amazing.  In your face Sea Salt! 

 
Is it actually chemically much different than the normal salt you buy in that big round blue container?  I thought salt was salt and the only real difference was the coarseness/size of grain.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
Anyone have one of those salt lamps that are supposed to make you healthy?
Wtf is with these things?  They even sell them at the grocery store.  The few people that I have talked to notice no health benefits, or anything.  It's basically just an Amber lamps.

 
Kanil said:
Is it actually chemically much different than the normal salt you buy in that big round blue container?  I thought salt was salt and the only real difference was the coarseness/size of grain.
What gives Himalayan salt its pink color are trace amounts of micronutrient metals such as iron and chromium. I emphasize "trace" because the amounts are so tiny as to be far from nutritionally beneficial. For all intents and purposes, it's still "salt" and the grain size accounts for the differences in experience people have with it.

 
It's always nice to have a good presentation/finishing salt.  I still haven't found a need to season with anything but kosher salt, but I use the Maldon flakes to finish a steak or something.  It's just presentation, but it's something a complete clutz like me can do to make it look good.  

Don't really understand the slabs except as a presentation piece for fancy meals.  To the extent they market them with copy like "now your food can be infused with delicious salty flavor," I'm always like "did we suddenly collectively forget how to season our food?"

 
What gives Himalayan salt its pink color are trace amounts of micronutrient metals such as iron and chromium. I emphasize "trace" because the amounts are so tiny as to be far from nutritionally beneficial. For all intents and purposes, it's still "salt" and the grain size accounts for the differences in experience people have with it.
Thanks.  I probably should have just looked that up.  :(

 
I've done a side by side on two steaks, one with the pink stuff and the other with very coarse sea salt. Couldn't taste a difference. That being said, I have a ton of the pink stuff. I find it at Marshall/TJ Maxx all the time for a couple buck cheaper than I can buy the sea salt at the grocery store so I buy it. Sure, it's better than table salt, but I don't find it any better than coarse sea salt. 

 

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