Salt grinders and "gourmet" salt are frivolous. Salt is salt. amirite?

Salt grinders are all about having the right size to have the salt function as needed for the application. Size does matter in how the salt will incorporate into the food

by Norawehner 11 hours ago

You heard it right here, fellas. SIZE MATTERS!

by Known_Assist 10 hours ago

Definitely wrote it that way on purpose

by Norawehner 10 hours ago

But what about the motion of the ocean? How does that affect flavor??

by Anonymous 10 hours ago

Depends how wet it is

by Norawehner 10 hours ago

And the boat of the lotion

by Anonymous 9 hours ago

😂

by Anonymous 9 hours ago

Which is why I really dislike it when restaurants offer salt grinders at the table instead of shakers. They're always set to grind WAY too coarse, and many of them don't have finer settings. My dinner isn't a pretzel or a caramel chocolate; it doesn't need huge, visible chunks of salt in it.

by darron40 9 hours ago

Mine does, but I'm well aware I am an anomaly in this regard.

by Anonymous 8 hours ago

Oh, man could I go for a salted caramel pretzel right now

by Anonymous 8 hours ago

Yeah which is why I buy salt pre-processed to the right size. Fine, kosher, and flake. I agree with OP the grinders are dumb

by Anonymous 8 hours ago

My gf and I make a lot of different stuff, so being able to buy coarse and get whatever we need is actually helpful. 90% of people who buy salt grinders will never even realize you can adjust it. It's one of those, "Dumb unless you actually need it" kind of kitchen tools.

by mohrshanna 8 hours ago

The reason grinders are not ideal is that it just doesn't beat salting by hand. You get way more control. Most chefs use something like diamond kosher which has the right size for basically any application of seasoning.

by Icy_Vermicelli_3714 8 hours ago

That's fair, that's what we use at work too I'm pretty sure. For us having the grinder is useful because it's one of those double sided ones, so it saves us space by keeping the salt and pepper together in one small footprint. We don't have a ton of counter space or I'd keep out a salt dish instead.

by mohrshanna 7 hours ago

Agreed, it's a stupid half-measure that is just over complicates what should be simple without even satisfactorily achieving the desires goal.

by Anonymous 7 hours ago

The reason I use a salt grinder is because you can vary the size of the grain depending on what you're using it on. I don't need to have fine, medium, coarse boxes, just one type.

by Anonymous 6 hours ago

Not true. There is a difference between kosher salt and table salt. If you use table in a recipe that calls for kosher, it will be too salty.

by Odd_Independent_8486 6 hours ago

Not if you weigh it instead of scooping.

by willie02 6 hours ago

If you are coating meat before cooking you kinda need the larger grain of a kosher salt. The moisture would make table salt run off and not be affective.

by Anonymous 6 hours ago

No. A pound is a pound. Surface area and volume don't factor in at all. It's when you use a volume based measurement like tablespoons that you will run into issues. Down voting me just shows you have no understanding of the differences between weight, mass, volume and density.

by Direct-Occasion 5 hours ago

what are you talking about? volume of each grain and surface area absolutely impact the distribution of the salt. put a one pound salt rock into your food and tell me it wouldn't taste different if you poured a pound of finely ground salt into it.

by ferne26 5 hours ago

Salt dissolve in water, Pepper disperse in water.

by Anonymous 5 hours ago

There's no difference. Cooking is basically chemistry, biology and thermal dynamics.

by Direct-Occasion 4 hours ago

I'm a chef. I know what I'm talking about here. Using weight or mass if you're into metric is not the same as using a volume based measurement. A cup of fine ground salt will absolutely be more salt than a cup of coarse salt. You can fit more into the same volume. An ounce of salt will be an ounce of salt. The volume will be different depending on the size of the grains.

by Direct-Occasion 4 hours ago

Sure. a pound is a pound and a cup of something can weigh more than another thing. We agree on that. Do different types of salt not behave differently?

by Necessary_Traffic 4 hours ago

No. Kosher and table salt are chemically the same thing, sodium chloride. Now if we are talking about curing salt then no, that would not be the same all. That's sodium nitrate.

by Direct-Occasion 3 hours ago

I'm not jewish so i don't use kosher salt

by Pearlie83 3 hours ago

It's not about being Jewish. Kosher salt has a larger crystal size. You can't replace the 2 of them cup for cup.

by Odd_Independent_8486 3 hours ago

(/s)

by Pearlie83 3 hours ago

No sarcasm. They are not interchangeable.

by Odd_Independent_8486 3 hours ago

Good lord dude, how do you miss a joke even when the /s is there?

by Pearlie83 2 hours ago

Yeah lots of people are dumb. People can just google why different salt matters ¯_(ツ)_/¯

by Pearlie83 2 hours ago

Damn you just keep going

by OkDetail9893 1 hour ago

final boss of missing jokes

by Anonymous 1 hour ago

Well no, it was very obviously a joke.

by Anonymous 1 hour ago

Nah it was obviously a joke man. Just let it go.

by Anonymous 1 hour ago

You can buy non-iodized table salt too, though. The important difference is the size of the chunks.

by Aggravating-Job-7360 1 hour ago

Not if you use less.

by Anonymous 1 hour ago

No, it still has a different effect.

by Famous_Record_6424 58 minutes ago

That was my point. Not all salt is the same.

by Odd_Independent_8486 41 minutes ago

flavor too! salts have different flavors depending upon where theyre cultivated

by Curious_One 11 minutes ago