"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> Nancy Young wrote:
> > Puester wrote:
> >
> >> JB wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Can you use salt which is intended for an ice cream maker or to melt
> >>> snow and ice on the sidewalk in a salt mill?
> >>
> >> I wouldn't. You have no guarantee of purity and
> >> there may be other ice-melting chemicals added
> >> in addition to natural impurities.
> >>
> >> A box of kosher or other coarse salt is cheap.
> >
> > Ditto, it's not food grade. Who knows what kind of dirty
> > circumstances is it packaged. Salt is cheap, why go there.
> >
> > nancy
>
> I am a salt fanatic. And I have to think, back before there were food
> police, salt was as much of a commodity as pepper and spices were. So if
> someone ran across a mound of salt and dug some out and put it in their
> pouch for trading later, they weren't concerned about 'grade'.
>
> Having said that, when I was a teen my mom had a box of rock salt in the
> cabinet in the garage; I don't know why. But she was very disturbed when
> she discovered I'd eaten half of it. Yes, I eat salt by the handful. My
> doctor tells me this is because I have low blood pressure and my body
craves
> sodium which I tend to avoid otherwise. Whatever. I just love the taste
of
> salt.
>
> Jill

I used to use a lot of salt, so did my husband. In fact, he salted things I
wouldn't even salt...like spaghetti for instance. So much, it looked like
snowfall... ;-)
Then I got into spices and herbs and I cut back on salt because, to me, it
covered the other flavors too much. Now I hardly use it. I use it in the
cooking water for pasta and potatoes, and on some veggies like corn.
Especially corn on the cob! I can't imagine it without salt!
The reason I responded though was because before my last pregnancy, when I
used to use alot of salt, I also had low blood pressure...it never occured
to me it may be connected! It was interesting to learn that, so thanks!

kimberly

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