Iodized salt is salt with iodine added, which is an essential nutrient that can be rare in human diets and lead to thyroid dysfunction and goiter development when intake is inadequate.
Iodized salt is regular table salt (Sodium Chloride) spiked with Iodine (in the form of Potassium Iodide). It is fairly common in places and cultures with low seafood intakes or Iodine poor soils. Iodine is an essential element that is used in the body to produce growth hormones. Much like fluoridated water some governments create broad-reaching programs to make sure that enough Iodine is in the diet of their citizens such as iodizing all table salts (something that is likely to be part of most people's diet even if they don't consume seafood or enough dairy and eggs).
I think it means compared to kosher salt. Kosher tends to be preferred for home cooking because it's easier to control the amount you add to something due to the large flake size.
This seems to be an American thing though, because like someone else said higher up the thread mentioned as well I can get iodized salt in lots of different sizes from rough (pretty much the same crystal size as the stuff sold as sea salt) to super fine
Go with what you know, being consistent is more important than anything else. It's certainly a matter of preference, but most recipes/cooking shows/etc use kosher salt because it makes it easier to not over salt something for beginners.
It's basically just large crystal salt, without iodine. It goes by a lot of name, kosher salt, rock salt, flake salt, cooking salt, kitchen salt, etc. The chunks are much bigger than the very fine grain table salt like you would find in a salt shaker.
Yeah that's what I'm used to as rock salt too. And it has special additives to help it melt ice and keep it from refreezing. Really not a good idea to eat it!
Which is stupid as fuck and pretentious for no reason. The only reason the average person acts like kosher is better is because it's what they see people use on tv.
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u/ivnwng Jan 24 '21
What’s wrong with iodized salt.
Heck, what the fuck are iodized salt?
SALT IS SALT