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Original poster

anyone that uses table salt in food is lacking in taste

238 replies

dhdjdbrjrkbr · 05/02/2015 17:47

IMO the only place for table salt is in salt dough or to dye. Was just round a friends and she was seasoning a "home made" soup and poured a load in. I did my best not to raise my eyebrows but seriously even a bit of bog standard Maldon is cheap enough.

I have 6 different salts in the house, and to me table salt is not for food, no depth of flavour or hints and tones, just pure sodium!

OP posts:
EasyToEatTiger · 05/02/2015 21:14

Can you tell the difference between Lincoln Himalayan and Uncle Jimmys? Taste matters...Grin

EdSheeran · 05/02/2015 21:21

Salt will raise your blood pressure and kill you as a result of a heart attack and/or a stroke.

DoJo · 05/02/2015 21:22

I don't honestly believe s that someone can't tell the difference between pink h s and TS?!

What a sheltered life you must have led.

BIWI · 05/02/2015 21:26

This thread, of all the others that you have started, has finally convinced me that you are definitely aiming to provoke people.

ilovesooty · 05/02/2015 21:30

Just the same under her previous username BIWI.

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dhdjdbrjrkbr · 05/02/2015 21:37

I think that's a fair generalisation of bb, as fair as generisations can be.

I'm not phobic against them, just annoyed with a broken system that is skewed towards them. If the system was unfairly helping the young while pensioners were suffering I would always defend the ones in need.

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SukieTuesday · 05/02/2015 21:38

I just open the kitchen window of my converted fisherman's cottage and allow the sea breeze to fill the room, infusing my cooking with that authentic salty tang.

Bolshybookworm · 05/02/2015 21:45

We have a big tub of pure sodium chloride in the lab. A friend saw a lecturer trek all the way from the canteen to the lab, take a scoop of the lab salt and return to the canteen to put it on his chips. Now that really is eyebrow raising.

vinegarandbrownpaper · 05/02/2015 21:48

All salt is eyebrow raising if eaten in the right way.

ScotsWhaHae · 05/02/2015 21:48

I remember salt and vinegar flavoured salt. Think it was from farmfoods. Well posh.

bigbluestars · 05/02/2015 21:49

Why didn't the lecturer use salt from the canteen? Was he showing off?

Aristar ethanol was my favourite lab tipple.

Camolips · 05/02/2015 21:50

I'm curious about the use of inverted commas. What's a "home made" soup?

momb · 05/02/2015 21:53

Processed sodium chloride is easy for my body to absorb and use.
I always worry with fancy sea salt that it must be more work for my liver to metabolise all the fish poo/oyster guts in it.

vinegarandbrownpaper · 05/02/2015 21:54

I hough to say though that I am a bit snobby about table salt and it seems sharper and more drying to me. I suspect that's just my imagination, running away with me.
I have groovy portuguese sea salt in a puff-puff table bottle with pictures of fish on it. Its only 50p dudes.. 50p

Norland · 05/02/2015 21:57

This will help OP

www.actiononsalt.org.uk/news/surveys/2011/gourmet%20salts/59309.html

The best salt is human salt. After a 90-minute stint on the running machine, wearing a bin liner, you'll find your socks are a bit damp. Put them in a dehumidifer and brush the salt off from the inside. Hey presto, instant, recycled healthy human salt.

vinegarandbrownpaper · 05/02/2015 21:59

As a thought though, if you have no cuts.. could you sit in salt up to your neck and not sting?

Bodicea · 05/02/2015 21:59

Wow I consider myself enlightened. I am off to buy myself some proper salt tommorrow. Any suggestions for a beginner in the head world of salt?

vinegarandbrownpaper · 05/02/2015 22:01

Human salt is better made from tears fact fans. It has the mammary of failed relationships and shattered dreams in it rather than pheromones, smugness, and essence of forgettable sex-in-the-gym fantasies

egnahc · 05/02/2015 22:02

We make our own salt. I import water from mountain Dhaulagiri In Nepal. We then send it for a natural evaporation process which is chemical free.

Bolshybookworm · 05/02/2015 22:02

Who knows, bigbluestars! Friend said that the lecturer in question was generally a very odd man. She'd also seen her boss use the lab salt when having lunch at her desk, but that was because she couldn't be arsed to walk to the canteen. Ditto using the lab Marvel for her coffee.

I'm always a bit wary of lab ethanol- doesn't it contain traces of methanol? Had a lecturer who used to make punch with ether Grin

vinegarandbrownpaper · 05/02/2015 22:02

For info Boody.. a bath of salt should cost about £30

vinegarandbrownpaper · 05/02/2015 22:04

It gets bad if you are chewing dissection rats seasoned with lab salt

PacificDogwood · 05/02/2015 22:05

My salt is made from unicorn tears.

egnahc · 05/02/2015 22:08

PacificDogwood

My natural evaporation technique includes drying the salt on the fur of giant pandas.

PacificDogwood · 05/02/2015 22:09

Ah! Of course. Kudos.

I still win

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