Comments on: Sea Salt, No Iodine Please…

By: erick

erick — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:20:23 +0000

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By: baljit

baljit — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:44:13 +0000

ACTUALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK A QUESTION REGARDING MY CONFUSION ON WHICH SALT TO USE.I AM A STRICT VEGETARIAN AND CANT TAKE ANY SEA FOOD NOR ANY MEAT.I HAVE A THYROID PROBLEM, IF I WOULD USE THE SEA SALT THEN HOW ABOUT THE IODINE THAT I NEED FOR MY PROBLEM?

By: foodfarer

foodfarer — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:48:53 +0000

I did a feature a long time ago on goiter–seems to be more prevalent among people who are far from the sea ie sources of iodine-rich seafood (not necessarily iodized salt). We went to the Mountain Province where we saw many people in the remote parts who had goiter. A lot of doctors in Baguio have become such experts at removing the growths. They work so fast because they’ve performed those operations several times already.

By: CecileJ

CecileJ — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:13:51 +0000

MM, remember I asked you in a previous post why sea salt and you answered cos iodized has a smell (of iodine)? well, you are right! The latest bag that I bought does give off a strong iodine odor whenever I open the salt container. Reminds me of Betadine! Eeeuuuwww. Should secure some sea salt soon! :-)

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:38:06 +0000

Joy, that reminded me of a time when i was still in high school and was making “Tang” and i could not understand why it was salty, i kept on adding sugar to it and it keeps getting saltier ;-)

By: joy

joy — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:24:09 +0000

Hi MM, I am from Cagayan way up north, our salt is made the same way as Ilocos salt.
It’s salt crystals are halfway between the size of fine iodized salt like Mortons and the sea salts commonly sold in Manila. You could even say it was like the size of sugar crystals, as one of my cousins visting from Manila found out…
He mistakenly added salt instead of sugar in his coffee, and spewed out the first sip he had of the concoction. =)

By: eej

eej — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:28:43 +0000

That’s a LOT of salt, MM! How long will it take you to use up the entire 10 kilos? I’m wondering since in our family of 3, it takes us over a year (14 months to be exact)to use up a regular box of 26 oz. Morton Iodized salt. I have a habit of writing down dates on the lid of the container when it is first opened.

By: Apicio

Apicio — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:37:30 +0000

I shall not dismiss your appreciation of the nuances in taste of variously sourced sodium chloride as dainty epicurianism as long as you do not write-off my obsessed quest for my coffee holy grail as sheer giddy lunacy.

I heard once (actually from my mother) that Ilocos bagoong cannot be made with anything other than Ilocos salt.

By: The Cooking Ninja

The Cooking Ninja — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:13:03 +0000

Where we live, we have some areas nearby where they make salt from the natural sea. :)

By: Teresa

Teresa — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:54:58 +0000

Yes marketman, Ilocos salt is lovely salt indeed, so white with a characteristic coarseness to it’s own. You suddenly reminded me that i’ve ran out of it myself. I am wondering if ilocos salt is sold in any of the weekend markets – Salcedo, FTI, etc. Otherwise i have to wait for our next trip up North.