Let's talk about salt!

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I'd love to hear anyone's opinion (especially a real chef's) on the potential dangers of blanket advice to lower our salt consumption.
Whilst it's obviously a good idea for some, there are plenty of us who could suffer.

Check out this site for loads more interesting stuff on this subject:

http://www.saltsense.co.uk/

― Marcel G, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

I've never given one thought to my sodium consumption, but I don't have hypertension... Saladitos & V8 all the way.

― andy --, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Viral marketing by the salt manufactuer's association. Now ILE has seen everything.

"Are you a salty sweater?" - classic!

Is it a companion site to noncesence.co.uk?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

i started a thread about (against) salt once, but i've since changed my mind.

― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

apparently one can rub it on oneself

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.saltsense.co.uk/images/pic_senior01.jpg

"Salt and the Elderly"

― andy -, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Salt is seriously the next gourmet craze. Honey salt, mesquite salt. Real salt should be so subtle yet magical that you can substitute it for sugar.

― Klaus Darko (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

I got paid $150 for a 1-hour survey group by Morton's salt. Salt is salt, man. But, sea salt has a saltier taste which is better in my opinion because I really like salt.

― Fearless, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Good salt doesn't taste "salty".

― Klaus Darko (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

I eat WAY too much salt

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Right, it taste more "peppery."

― Fearless, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

both howling misnomers.

― Klaus Darko (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

The Portuguese have taken salty to a whole level, god bless 'em.

― andy --, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing is worse than those people who don't cook with enough salt and don't put it on the table either, so if you're in a non-assertive mood you just have to suffer through the tasteless meal because you don't want to ask for salt and make it obvious that you think their food SUCKS. Sometimes I ask anyway. I say I've got extra salt cravings because I sweated a lot that day. A lie.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Sel Gris de Guerande. The most salty marine tasting salt there is . I could eat it by the spoon load.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

I totally thought this would be about winter. And salt stains on your boots. Or car ruination. Or how sometimes instead of using salt they use gravel and then you track it everywhere and it somehow ends up in your couch even. And how that sucks.

I use sea salt - greek and free-flowing, it says.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B0006FS4TI/ref=dp_product-image-only_0/103-1381845-5257405?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=3370831&s=gourmet-food

― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

why does it work only sometimes?

― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's all about that big rock of salt the Tabasco people own.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006FS4TI.01-A2G8TELXIDVO04._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

I just bought a box of that last week!

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

it's in crystals but you don't need a grinder for it, this Maldon stuff; you can crumble it between your fingers so you never add too much...beautiful.

― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

the old standby at maison du rosen

http://www.mortonsalt.com/images/products/1203_Kosher_Salt.gif

― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

x-post -- So that means it's just been dried into flake form or...?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

yeah it's in snowflake-y crystals that are delicate enough to crush between fingers.

― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't really answer your question did i, ned? my guess is that its chemical make up allows it to dry in snowflake-y crystals when other salts would need extra chemical help to achieve this...

― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

Try it on chocolate cake.

Seriously.

― Klaus Darko (nordicskilla), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

i can see that working.

― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

Cottage cheese is better without it.

SALT STANDS IN THE WAY OF SUGAR.

― youn, Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

Toasts with chocolate, sea salt, and olive oil - stunningly good stuff.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

Because of ILE I am now eating a salt-rich meal.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

Read all about it on the garlic thread AND CRY SALTY TEARS BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT ME AT THIS MOMENT IN HISTORY!!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.memorygongs.com/bendercook.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

I have heard this is an interesting book.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0142001619.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
I might like to read it, or better yet, have it read to me.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that book is on my to-be-read list, too. He also wrote one on cod that I want to read.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

I noticed that - I wasn't quite sure of the significance of cod. I wondered if he was like a one-trick pony, and his next book would be like "Oregano: The herb that changed the world's attitude toward hand tools."

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, he did the Basques, too. (Although, now that I think about it, they are related to the cod book.)

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

i love salt so much. right now i'm eating chips with malt vinegar and a load of crushed rock salt.

i don't believe that salt causes hypertension unless you're already predisposesed to it, since i eat at least 4x as much salt as a 'normal' person, and every time i get my blood pressure checked (every six months, due to the pill), it's always on the low side of healthy.

oh man, i love salt. maldon on the table, some fancy pink stuff in the grinder, and yeah, it goes well with everything. rococo milk chocolate bars with salt rock so hard. as do the sea salt and caramel macaroons from lauduree, paris (and now harrods). mmm.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://media.telemarket.fr/imgprod/3EB7D53C6F7C0354E1000000AC110A15.jpg

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

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