Nancy Young wrote:
> 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

I am a salt fanatic. And I have to think, back before there were food
police, salt was as much of a commodity as pepper and spices were. So if
someone ran across a mound of salt and dug some out and put it in their
pouch for trading later, they weren't concerned about 'grade'.

Having said that, when I was a teen my mom had a box of rock salt in the
cabinet in the garage; I don't know why. But she was very disturbed when
she discovered I'd eaten half of it. Yes, I eat salt by the handful. My
doctor tells me this is because I have low blood pressure and my body craves
sodium which I tend to avoid otherwise. Whatever. I just love the taste of
salt.

Jill