Now I Know!

[barry1010]

I've seen a lot of recipes using kosher salt and just found out it is rock salt.

Does every one know this?

[wolf63]

I use rock salt but only because I like it s texture.

I saw an advert for vegan bed linen earlier!

[Canary42]

No, I didn't.

[Hazlinny]

Have never noticed Kosher salt mentioned in recipes but good to know. I use Rock Salt most of the time.

[wolf63]

Ah, its not actually kosher.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_salt

[rockyracoon]

I didn't know that, but I never take any notice of a recipe and just use sea salt, or table salt, which I always have.

[douglas9401]

I found out on here a while back, when it was still a question and answer site.

[barry1010]

I only use table salt and occasionally rock salt which appears by magic in my kitchen cupboards. I don't buy it so it must be the salt gnome

[-SharonA-]

I've got some pink rock salt.

[pastafreak]

Were they American recipes by any chance?

[barry1010]

Yes, American recipes. It was the term that puzzled me, I couldn't think of any reason for Jews to need special salt

[DTCwordfan]

the only kosher salt is that dessicated by Moses when he parted the Red Sea....and even he said 'Holy Moses'........

[pastafreak]

From thekitchn...

//....How Kosher Salt Got Its Name

Any salt can be kosher if it’s produced under kosher supervision, but it’s not because of Jewish dietary guidelines that kosher salt got its name. In fact, something labeled “kosher salt” can actually not be kosher at all!

Kosher salt’s original purpose was really to kosher meat, meaning to remove the blood from meat, so it’s really koshering salt. Certain salt companies labeled the boxes of this coarse salt kosher salt rather than koshering salt, and the name stuck....//

[Prudie]

Apart from throwing it on chips (and normal Saxa was fine for that) I've never really bothered much with salt but this year we got some pink Himalayan rock salt and OMG it makes everything taste amazing, almost as though it's got MSG or something that amplifies flavours added. I'm quite converted.