I read a lot of recipes online and a lot of them from the US ask for kosher salt. I see the need for Jews to use only kosher ingredients including salt. What I don’t know is why non Jewish people would specifically use kosher salt. Isn’t salt just salt?

  • vintageballs@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    Great video by Adam Ragusea about it:

    https://youtu.be/yKdk1HSxSEY

    In essence, it’s mostly an American thing that is historically based. Chefs in the past needed large-grained salts and kosher salt was the most widely-available salt of this type. It being kosher is an unimportant secondary property.

    • gitamar@feddit.deOP
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      11 months ago

      Thank you! It never occurred to me that it’s only describing the grain size and not the Jewish diet.