What's the difference between kosher and non-kosher salt?!
What's the difference between kosher and non-kosher salt?
Answers: Well it's very different from what you think, Kosher salt ( well almost all salt is kosher ) but what it does is it's a blood extractor from meats and it helps preserve meats. Also it much more courser ( bigger ) in grain size.
I use Kosher salt to brine meats, and for general cooking ( regular salt has iodine so you can not use it for brining ).
Also, kosher salt taste better since it does not have that metal taste of iodine. kosher just means that it was blessed by a rabbi..... i don't think that there is any difference in the taste I also wondered about this. i heard that "kosher" meant it had been blessed by a Rabbi but then i checked online and it seems the texture is different as well. i watch a lot of cooking shows and they do a close up of it, its big bigger then normal iodized salt (table salt) I'm not Jewish but I have many good friends who are.
They once told me like this. "Anything with a Kosher label on it, has been blessed ,or a prayer is said by a Rabbi " to bless
the food. That's the best simple way to explain it. Kosher salt is coarser than regular table salt, but not as coarse as sea salt. Table salt is fine for adding after food is cooked, but I prefer kosher when cooking. The flavor is just better.
Careful not to confuse Kosher salt (texture) with kosher salt (religion).
In terms of religion, it's any salt prepared in the factory under kosher requirements. Look on the label for the fine print "K" indicating it's kosher. This can apply to Kosher (coarse) salts, sea salt, table salt, etc. There is no real difference in the taste, but the texture of kosher salt is somewhat coarser than table salt. It's not nearly as coarse as rock salt, but the grains are several times the size of the grains of normal table salt. It also has no additives of any kind to keep it free-flowing, unlike table salt. In that way it's more like canning salt. Kosher salt is often used for pickling. A kosher product is something that has not been exposed to pork at all(or other impurities) I work for a transportation company that hauls tankers (we haul chemicals and food grade products) and every few months a Rabbi comes by and blesses our trailers. Actually he is blessing the cleaning process of the trailers, but we have dedicated trailers for anything that is kosher. It's a jewish thing, I really don't understand...lol. Hope I helped. Basically Kosher just means "clean" That a Rabbi has come into the warehouse and inspected it and blessed the food and has dubbed it to be Kosher. as i see it kosher has been blessed by the rabii and non kosher is not
there isnt really a difference in taste to me
it also seems like the kosher is slightly coarser then the nonkosher
hope this helped