Cooking & Baking
Related: About this forumHimalayan pink salt...
not that easy to find in your usual places, I ran across some at Homegoods and tried it. Whatever's in that stuff, it does perk up the dish.
I'll pass on the whacko talk about vibrations in some strange sites I saw, but it does taste great and adds "something" to everything I put it in. I've been pretty much salt-free in my cooking for a while (there's more than enough in just about every can of soup or bag of takeout) but this stuff has me changing my habits.
Anybody have any special uses for it?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Melting yellow snow?
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)But, we don't have yellow snow in Florida.
CurtEastPoint
(18,664 posts)egold2604
(369 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)But tastes remarkably like salt. I got some in granulated form, and when my youngest son discovered that the color comes from iron oxide, he started referring to it as "rusty salt".
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Your son is correct, it is salt with iron rust in it.
It's 90%+ Sodium Chloride, with <10% other stuff. Any "health" claims are just marketing BS.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Other than its looks, there's nothing special about it.
My youngest son gave me a mortar and pestle made from pink salt for Christmas. It actually does a nice job for making pesto (although I will probably stick with the food processor), salting it quite nicely.
beac
(9,992 posts)I think it costs about $2.
As for special uses, I like it on popcorn and agree with PP that it makes a nice finishing salt on fish or vegetables.
csziggy
(34,138 posts)A year or two ago I got a box of a dozen salts from around the world. One was the Himalayan pink salt, the rest were from different parts of the world.
I haven't figured out a reason to open the box much less any of the jars. I should re-gift it but don't know anyone that would think it was worth anything.
SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)Is so a waiter can act snooty while telling you that someone had to scale Mt Everest to get your special salt.
Bjornsdotter
(6,123 posts)We have a few different types of salt but we do like this one.