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Like kosher salt....

Agree with you on the bacon though!

I certainly can't speak for all chefs worldwide, but I can say with reasonable certainty that the chefs of the western world are largely in agreement about kosher salt being the One True Cooking Salt.

Why you've got a bug up your butt about it, I am just not sure.

Then there are those of us who prefer cooking without salt at all!

By the western world I assume you mean the US. The rest of the western world hasn't even heard of it and don't actually use it.

I actually don't have any bug about it, if I need salt to cook with, I don't give a rat's arse what I use. Any salt will do. That includes Kosher, Maldon, sea-salt and table salt.

I think you've adequately made my point for me.

And you have adequately made my point for me

what's kosher salt?

It's not made from dried pigs tears like most salt.

how do they make pigs cry?

They make them watch Australian sporting events.

ah, you mean cry with joy as we crush the hobbits

That's one interpretation, but like most things, preconceived notions can alter perspective.

yeah, bubbles are bad

Thank you for admitting you are literally Sauron.

Is this kosher?

I just love the need to write the ingredients list

Probably not. I don't know how Kosher salt got its name (anyone?) but it is invariably salt from saline evaporation, with whatever minerals were in that saline. It won't have added iodine or anti-caking agents, unlike table salt which will - usually table salt is from rock salt.

Anyone else here remember buying a large block of rock salt, and grinding it down yourself? I had great fun as a kid doing that.

The "kosher" in kosher salt doesn't really have anything to do with actually being kosher, and it is not certified as such. But virtually any salt would probably be capable of meeting the basic parameters of being kosher, if it were produced under rabbinical supervision.

It is called "kosher" salt because it is used in the koshering of meat.

And, as it happens, people who cook for a living swear by it and have done so for several decades now.

One brand in particular is the universal choice within the US: Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt, primarily due to its consistent flake texture and the lack of any anti-caking agents or iodine.

(I just checked my box of Diamond Crystal and it is in fact certified as kosher).

It could be worse, I could be an Aussie journo and hence worthy of shooting.

Two words.
Toreador Pants.

Isn't that technically six words?

Yeah but Australians can't count past 5.

I beg to differ - Australian men can count to 21 (think about it).

At least we can pronounce six

At least we have six.

This thread is cheering me up today. Perhaps I should post that in the other thread.

Again with the mushrooms: Little penises sticking out of the ground!

Why such hating on mushrooms? What did they ever do to you?

Now, beets, I understand.

Mushrooms are one of the greatest culinary ingredients that grace this earth.

Nothing wrong with mushrooms. They are great, but onions are the essential bit in ALL cooking.

FTFY.

Due to my staple breakfast food Mackerel no longer on the list of sustainable fish, I have switched to Herring, which instead of being an expected compromise is in fact a culinary upgrade.

My condolences

Hot take: gold is tacky*. Gold-plated things are tacky. Large gold jewelry is tacky. Gold teeth are really tacky.

Small jewelry (example: gold wedding bands) are completely reasonable and unobjectionable.

I'll go farther: people who adore gold for anything besides a store of value or scientific / industrial purposes are not to be trusted. These people are effectively shouting "Look at me! I have no taste!" to the whole world.

*Translation for the Brits: naff.

Sketchy gold Android "smart" phones are eminently tacky.

iPhones with fake diamonds on the case are worse

Agreed that's also tacky. "Better" or "worse" are kind of pointless degrees of minutiae at that point.

I just had to go and check that our spelling of jewellery is indeed different.

Big gold jewelry makes me think of these guys.



Or BMW drivers.