Comments on: Salt — Really Handy and Important Stuff

By: dlm

dlm — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:25:19 +0000

leaving salt out (as I did) can leave you low in iodine and cause problems with your thyroid!!

By: Recipe Thursday: Homemade Chinese Turkey/Chicken Meatballs

Recipe Thursday: Homemade Chinese Turkey/Chicken Meatballs — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:01:37 +0000

[...] 1/2 tsp pepper (he specifies white pepper, we didn’t have it) 1/2 tsp salt (it’s important, remember? ) 2 TB cornstarch 1 TB soy sauce (or more if you like) 2 egg whites (we left these out since we [...]

By: E.C.

E.C. — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:25:27 +0000

Have you ever given sea salt a try? My ex-boyfriend sold me on the idea. It seems weird, but in some things without lots of seasoning, like when I stir fry veggies with a bit of garlic and some salt, it really does add interesting nuance. Sea salt cost slightly more, but when you calculate it on a per serving basis it adds less than a cent to the cost of the dish.

By: Aaron Stroud

Aaron Stroud — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:43:55 +0000

Salt is extremely important at my house. We get our water from a well that is full of very, very metallic water. The water contains so much iron and magnesium that are dog won’t even drink the water!

So we have a heavy duty water softener system that uses salt to clean the filtering media. We go through a 40 lb bag of salt every week. Fortunately, the salt only costs ~$4.50 at Walmart!

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:26:05 +0000

I shall call you Queen Lear.

By: Becca

Becca — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:24:01 +0000

That reminds me of this book that our honors college had contemplated switching to as the “let the freshman suffer” summer reading book. It’s called Salt: A World History. Honestly, at 498 pages it would have been a better choice than what they DID make us read (Europe: A History at 1392 pages) and we could have skipped the whole “people having sex with bulls” meandering.

Anyway, it came to mind. I heard it was a good read.

By: Alice

Alice — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:18:37 +0000

I’ve left salt out of the bread machine a couple of times — it’s horrible!

I had been given to understand that Roman soldiers were actually paid with salt rather than coin…is that incorrect?

By: deepali

deepali — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:24:45 +0000

I rarely use salt, and don’t really miss it.

By: StackingPennies

StackingPennies — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:55:47 +0000

I was wondering the same thing! I don’t use a lot of salt, but when I leave it out of recipes that it goes in, it is very noticeable

By: Becky@FamilyandFinances

Becky@FamilyandFinances — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:22:15 +0000

Lol! That happens I hate when I forget ingredients!