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Default Salt vs. salt

On 9/21/2016 4:04 PM, l not -l wrote:
> On 21-Sep-2016, KenK > wrote:
>
>> What's the difference in cooking beween kosher salt and common table salt?
>>
>> Grain size? Taste? Does it actually make a difference in recipes? (I've
>> never bought or tasted kosher salt.)

>
> I have both Morton's Coarse Table Salt and Morton's Iodized Table Salt in my
> pantry; the grain size is only one difference. According to the packages:
>
> Table salt ingredients: salt, calcium silicate (anti-caking agent),
> dextrose, potassium iodide
> Kosher salt ingredients: salt, yellow prussiate of soda


AKA Sodium ferrocyanide:-)