Hey, cooking people. I'm back with a question I should already know the answer to but don't.?

Question

What's the difference between kosher salt and regular salt? I've heard of kosher pickles but kosher salt? Don't you just love me for coming up with all these amatuer questions? Anyway, are these two salts interchangable?

Answer 1

from a theorical point of view, kosher salt means something to those who care.

however, salt is salt.

kosher salt comes in much bigger crystals so you use exactly half as much.

Answer 2

as mentioned above at equal volumes kosher salt weighs about half of what table salt weighs but that's not why it's kosher.
It's kosher because it's pure salt with no additives . Jewish dietary law describing what is kosher, not kosher , and neither kosher nor non -kosher is pretty complicated stuff but one of it's guiding principles is that a food product be free of additives.
From a culinary point of view because it has no additives, kosher salt will not cause a clear soup or sauce to cloud up
In professional kitchens chefs always keep a small bowl kosher salt mixed with a little pepper on the line for seasoning food .
The standard method is to pick up a pinch of it with your fingers and season the food .
The large salt grains make it easier to judge the amount of salt

Answer 3

Kosher salt can be used in nearly all applications, but it is not generally recommended for baking with recipes that use small amounts of liquid (wet ingredients). If there is not enough liquid, the kosher salt will not dissolve sufficiently, and this can result in small bits of salt in the resulting product; in certain applications this is undesirable. In recipes where there is enough liquid to dissolve all the salt, table salt can be replaced by kosher salt, but the volume must be adjusted. Because kosher grains occupy more volume (for equal weight) the volume of kosher salt should be increased. Because kosher salt grains can vary in size considerably from one brand to another, it is recommended that one check the box for a conversion guideline, which is generally provided. If there is no guidance provided, twice as much kosher salt (by volume) to replace table salt serves as a rough estimate. Conversely, to replace kosher salt with table salt in a recipe, the required quantity of salt should be reduced by half. Another reliable technique is to use an equal weight; a gram of Kosher salt is equivalent to a gram of table salt.

Answer 4

the main difference from a cooking standpoint is that kosher salt is used to basically make foods juicier..its largersize basicall draws out the juices..where table salt is just to flavor the food...

Answer 5

yes