Salt is one of the most common condiments in life, the world is big, there is nothing strange, usually we usually eat iodized salt, but do you know, edible salt is actually a very wide variety of types, this article will provide you with the types of salt.
Refined Salt
Refined salt is the most commonly used salt in everyday cooking, not in terms of its fineness, but in the sense that it has been refined and purified. It may be sea salt, well salt, lake salt, or most likely - rock salt. In fact about 40% of the salt people eat on their tables today comes from rock salt mined from salt mines and 30% from well salt made from underground brine or salt lakes. Through chemical processing, refined salt contains more than 99.5% sodium chloride, while most other mineral elements, both beneficial and harmful, are eliminated.
Large Grain Sea Salt
Sea salts are not as heavily processed as refined table salt, so they retain more of their trace elements. Sea salt is divided into coarse, fine and flake salt. Depending on the origin and the minerals contained within, sea salt varies in color from white, pink, black, gray and mixed colors. Purely extracted sea salt has a delicate flavor with a subtle sweetness when tasted carefully. In addition to flavoring, large grain sea salt can also be used for salting.
Smoked Sea Salt
Smoked sea salt is a processed salt that has a very strong style. The salt is smoked over charcoal, so foods prepared with it tend to have a smoky aroma, which adds a lovely smoky aroma to plain tofu and eggs, and goes well with fried and smoked dishes.
Flake salt
The salt is naturally pure, loose and instantly soluble, with a white color and clear taste, full of the flavor of the sea air. It can be used with grilled or fried foods. It melts slightly at high temperatures and has a fine sound and light graininess when bitten.
Bamboo Salt
Bamboo salt is made from natural sea salt rich in minerals, placed in three-year-old green bamboo, sealed with natural loess at both ends, and refined by calcination at 1000℃~1500℃ using pine trees as fuel. Bamboo salt has a clean and pure taste and is suitable for all kinds of cooking.
Lemon Salt
In addition to refined salt and sea salt, there are some special flavored salts available in supermarkets, such as vanilla salt, pepper salt and lemon salt. These salts are all processed salts and have different uses just like different flavors of vinegar. Lemon salt has a very beautiful color and a fresh lemon flavor. Just a little bit can make the fishy taste of seafood disappear and the freshness improve, and it is a good choice for salads.
Kombu Salt
This is a kind of processed salt from Japan, which is made by adding ground kombu (a kind of seafood similar to kelp) powder to the fine sea salt, and it smells like the sea, and it is very unique when you add some seasoning to the soup.
Hawaiian black lava salt
A natural mineral salt formed because of volcanic activity, this salt mixed with volcanic ash has a unique smoky and mineral taste. The black lava salt from Hawaii is even blacker, containing traces of activated carbon and volcanic rock. Black volcanic salt has a soft charcoal aftertaste that has the effect of mellowing out impurities in the dish.
Himalayan Pink Mineral Salt
Natural mineral salt from the Himalayas has an attractive pink color, containing calcium, magnesium, potassium, copper and iron, and has the same appearance as rose crystal, but when ground into powder, the taste is pure and unadulterated, and the saltiness is particularly mild. It is the best match for seafood and meat. A little sprinkling on the prickly body adds to the flavor.
