what's the difference between table salt and cooking salt?

Answer 1

Cooking salt is usually coarser, and sometimes kosher.

Table salt is more refined, and usually iodized for nutritional value.

Answer 2

Cooking Salt Vs Table Salt

Answer 3

The size of the grain only, although you can also have salt flakes in both, at the table and for cooking.
Table salt refers to the fine salt in the salt pot at the table, but it's also used in the kitchens, on the other hand, coarse salt has become popular lately in salt mills placed at the tables too. Cooking salt can be fine, coarse or in flakes, it doesn't matter.

Answer 4

Table salt is more consistently even in grain size and texture. Cooking salt is more uneven, sometimes almost powdery and represents the "crumbs" of the refining and grading process. Theoretically it should therefore be a little cheaper to buy. Chemically they are exactly the same.

Answer 5

Someone said Cooking salt is the only1 for something
and table salt doesn't work

Answer 6

There is no culinary"Cooking Salt" many cooks prefer to use coarse sea, or kosher salt. Table Salt is a culinary term

Answer 7

Table salt is a lot more fine, whereas cooking salt maybe big sea-salt crystals.

Answer 8

table salt is more finely grounded; it is shaped in small cubes. Cooking salt is shaped in big flakes. Other than that nothing.

Answer 9

Absolutely nowt...salt is salt is salt, no matter whether it comes in expensive rocks, or crystallised by the sea, or sweated through your pores.

Don't pay any more for it than you need to...it is exactly the same stuff in different shapes!

Answer 10

sea salt