Salt in Spain...

Baldbloke

Baldbloke

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5 or 6 years ago me and my other half went to Spain. Canaries. Cooked a little food in our apartment. We bought some local ingredients. One of which was salt. We liked this local(?) salt so much we bought two 1Kg bags of the stuff (paid around 60 cents a kg, if i recall) and brought it back with us in our hand luggage.

It was fun taking it through customs but the spanish customs officer who saw it when our bags were scanned took our word for it that it was just salt. Phew! :)

Anyways, we've ran out of the stuff. No plans to go back to Spain currently. Well, not just to get more salt, that is. Amazon does some Spanish sounding salt. Flor de sal, Sal de Coco but around a tenner a kilogram? I think not.

Have you a favourite salt?
 
I just use Saxa sea salt for both cooking and seasoning food.

Have yet to try the Himalayan stuff to see what all the fuss is about.

I mean it’s all just sodium chloride at the end of the day!
 
Philtor said:
I just use Saxa sea salt for both cooking and seasoning food.

Have yet to try the Himalayan stuff to see what all the fuss is about.

I mean it’s all just sodium chloride at the end of the day!
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Yes, but my sodium chloride is pink! :p
 
Bought a big bag of Himalayan a few years ago. Didn't use it all and it went out of date, despite it being formed thousands of years ago. I now use it to throw on the garden path when it's icey or snowy.

To answer the question, just Saxo fine salt for cooking and any flakey salt on things that need a good salting on the plate, like potatoes, eggs, tomatoes etc. If feeling flush, some Maldon, otherwise that Cornish Sea salt.
 
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Philtor said:
I just use Saxa sea salt for both cooking and seasoning food.

Have yet to try the Himalayan stuff to see what all the fuss is about.

I mean it’s all just sodium chloride at the end of the day!
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I notice quite a difference between Atlantic and Maldon.
 
COYS said:
Bought a big bag of Himalayan a few years ago. Didn't use it all and it went out of date, despite it being formed thousands of years ago. I now use it to throw on the garden path when it's icey or snowy.

To answer the question, just Saxo fine salt for cooking and any flakey salt on things that need a good salting on the plate, like potatoes, eggs, tomatoes etc. If feeling flush, some Maldon, otherwise that Cornish Sea salt.
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I've got a three quarters full plastic bottle of Saxa salt 36 years old, nothing wrong with it.

I just use it when cooking vegetables and use HPink for the rest.

Not sure salt ever goes out of date.
 
Nantwich supplied salt from roman times through the middle ages. 'Wich' means just that and we have a salt water swimming baths. Cheshire salt was renowned for its purity and taste but now only Northwich produces salt, I believe. Brine surveys are a requirement if you buy a house around here and the local academy is called Brine Leas.

Just for information, Nantwich resident. ;)
 
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used to buy French
1 "Le Guerandais Coarse Sea Salt In Bag 1 Kg (Pack of 3)"
Grocery; £8.65
good for grinding onto (plated) meals;

more recently bought B&M spice emporium coarse sea salt.
Thought the himalyan stuff was renown to have bits of stone , my NHS dentist would like that
 
Least favourite salt is Kosher Salt, the only reason being when you're watching a youtube of a recipe and they throw a literal handful of the stuff into the dish, and you're somehow supposed to work out how much that translates to the normal salt everyone actually has. Who invented kosher salt in the first place?
 
jpaul said:
used to buy French
1 "Le Guerandais Coarse Sea Salt In Bag 1 Kg (Pack of 3)"
Grocery; £8.65
good for grinding onto (plated) meals;

more recently bought B&M spice emporium coarse sea salt.
Thought the himalyan stuff was renown to have bits of stone , my NHS dentist would like that
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We brought a lot home when we visited Noirmoutier-en-l'Îlepeninsula
 
Baldbloke said:
It was fun taking it through customs but the spanish customs officer who saw it when our bags were scanned took our word for it that it was just salt. Phew! :)
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I went through customs with everything to make a birthday cake apart from the liquids in my hand luggage, including a dinner plate sized sieve because I know where I was going didn't have one.

They never even closely inspected the sugar or flower, no tests on it at all.

The guy just opened my bag and had a quick glance.

I bet they thought I was a really well paid baker or something getting flown out to Switzerland for some millionaires birthday :D

I probably had a one way ticket at the time as well to make it even more dodgy
 
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