Table Salt & Cooking Salt?

Question

Can anyone tell me-What is the difference between Cooking Salt and Table Salt?
My Mom always cooked with cooking salt. So what's the difference?
Any answers appreciated

Answer 1

found this website and thought of you...

http://www.saltinstitute.org/4.html

Answer 2

Cooking salt is generally just for cooking and has not been through the same process as table salt which is more refined

Answer 3

I've never heard of "Cooking salt". Table salt has iodine in it. They put iodine in table salt several decades ago to help prevent hypothyrodism. A lot of people don't use it to cook because it has a different taste. I would assume that the cooking salt was either sea salt or kosher salt. Neither have iodine. Kosher salt is popular to cook with because it is flaky and disolves quickly.

Answer 4

Cooking salt is usually pure salt crystals whereas table salt has an added ingredient - anti-caking agents to prevent it from clumping in humid conditions and blocking the salt cellar.

Answer 5

table salt is a finer grade of salt than cooking salt so that is can be put in to salt sellers easily .

Answer 6

Table Salt is finer like iodise, cooking is more likely rock salt ^_^

Answer 7

Table salt has something added to make it free flowing, cooking salt doesn't and can stick together in the damp

Answer 8

Personally, I use Kosher salt for cooking and gray salt and sea salt at table...

Answer 9

I am thinking it may have to do with the iodine - in that table salt has iodine and cooking salt may not?

Answer 10

Sea salt from the great oceans of the world. Try it.

Answer 11

I dont know, it's like bacon and cooking bacon? I thought you had to cook raw bacon anyway!