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Nancy Young
 
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Default Rock salt -- sidewalk vs. stomach

Puester wrote:

> JB wrote:
> >
> > Can you use salt which is intended for an ice cream maker or to melt
> > snow and ice on the sidewalk in a salt mill?

>
> I wouldn't. You have no guarantee of purity and
> there may be other ice-melting chemicals added
> in addition to natural impurities.
>
> A box of kosher or other coarse salt is cheap.


Ditto, it's not food grade. Who knows what kind of dirty circumstances
is it packaged. Salt is cheap, why go there.

nancy