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[Pilori]

I just moved to Dublin from California and I'm having the hardest time finding kosher salt in any store here. So far all I have been able to find is fine grain table salt or really coarse sea salt.

I found it on Amazon UK, but I'd rather not have to pay in pounds or have to pay for that shipping cost/duty if there is any. Does anyone know where I could find kosher salt in Dublin or an Irish suppliers website to mail order it from?

[Harters]

I suspect you may need to find a company importing American goods. Kosher salt is not generally available in the UK and I suspect the same will apply to other European countries.

[olicollett]

Err, isn't it just table salt?

[Harters]

No - apparently it's a larger grain than table salt and smaller than sea salt. And doesnt have iodine in it - which, Google tells me, is present in some American table salts. I have no idea whether Irish (or UK) table salt contains iodine, or whether it matters.

[olicollett]

No - apparently it's a larger grain than table salt and smaller than sea salt. And doesnt have iodine in it - which, Google tells me, is present in some American table salts. I have no idea whether Irish (or UK) table salt contains iodine, or whether it matters.

Fair enough, not sure what difference iodine would make either, other than helping prevent idoine-131 absorption after exposure to a nuclear meltdown?

[FrogPrincesse]

Try Maldon salt. It seems fairly similar and should be available.

[rotuts]

remember this: All Salt comes from the sea. in UK and Ireland there is probably no need for the addition of iodine to salt, as you are all close enough to the sea to get enough I as you breathe.

If you were in Chicago, Ill USA that might be different which is why USA add iodine to salt which you can get without. It a little bit harsh.

Stunning Goiter in CHI ( UofC Hospital et al ) before the GOV. did this ( there last good idea ..)

unless you are going to do true Koshering, stick with the cheaperstuff and understand the weights of each and volume is different.

[jorach]

remember this: All Salt comes from the sea. in UK and Ireland there is probably no need for the addition of iodine to salt, as you are all close enough to the sea to get enough I as you breathe.

Huh?

[Harters]

remember this: All Salt comes from the sea.

Perhaps some 200 million years ago. But, nowadays, most British salt comes from mines a few miles from me.

http://en.wikipedia....alt_in_Cheshire

[Pilori]

I'm looking for a textual equivalent and grain size which is something between table salt and sea salt. The table salt here is ultra fine. I'll keep an eye out for maldon salt.

[liuzhou]

remember this: All Salt comes from the sea.

No, it doesn't.

[Harters]

I'll keep an eye out for maldon salt.

Maldon is sea salt

[rotuts]

the salt in mines came from the sea just a long time ago.

[liuzhou]

the salt in mines came from the sea just a long time ago.

Maybe. But all salt still didn't come from the sea.

But whatever, it doesn't help the original poster to locate what (s)he wants.

If refined salt is too small grained and sea salt is too large grained, why not go for sea salt and crush it down a bit. That is what so-called "kosher salt" is anyway.

Edited by liuzhou, 15 September 2012 - 05:46 AM.

[naguere]

the salt in mines came from the sea just a long time ago.

So true.... that it is true.:

The Maldon Salt company has the answer :)

http://www.maldonsal...Comes From.html

Edited by naguere, 15 September 2012 - 05:54 AM.

[rotuts]

I agree with you about crushing larger grains to get the size you want. Just dont use that for soup.!

my point about the sea was just to remind some that "Sea Salt" is currently over fluffed, etc. Texture on the other had just before eating, is not.