Kosher salt
Kosher salt or kitchen salt
Etymology
Coarse edible salt is a kitchen staple, but its name varies widely in various cultures and countries. The term kosher salt gained common usage in the United States and refers to its use in the Jewish religious practice of
Usage
General cooking
Due to the lack of metallic or off-tasting additives such as iodine,
Brining or kashering meat
The coarse-grained salt is used to create a
Cleaning
Due to its grain size, the salt is also used as an abrasive cleaner for cookware such as cast iron skillets. Mixed with oil, it retains its abrasiveness but can be easily dissolved with water after cleaning, unlike cleansers based on pumice or calcium carbonate, which can leave a gritty residue if not thoroughly rinsed away.[14]
Manufacturing
Rather than cubic crystals, kosher salt has a flat plate-like shape and for some brands may also have a hollow pyramidal shape.
See also
- Pickling salt – Fine-grained salt used for manufacturing pickles
- Korean brining salt – Coarse salt
- Pickling – Procedure of preserving food in brine or vinegar
- Curing (food preservation) – Food preservation and flavouring processes based on drawing moisture out of the food by osmosis
- Kosher foods – Foods conforming to Jewish dietary law
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