Kosher Salt In Chiang Mai

[Lobin]

I am trying to buy some kosher salt, have checked Rimping but to no avail. Anyone know where to get some?

[Member]

Why Is Kosher Salt Called "Kosher" Salt?

According to Morton Satin of the Salt Institute, the industry's trade association, the name stems from the salt's original use: to draw blood out of meat so that it meets the dietary rules set by Jewish law. (The Bible sanctions against ingesting blood and commands the use of salt to draw out the blood.) While table salt's fine grains would disintegrate if slathered on a side of beef—potentially making for one very salty brisket—kosher salt's larger crystals wouldn't all dissolve. "Both the blood and salt wash off," says Satin. The process is sometimes called koshering.

Kosher salt, like most mass-produced salts, does also happen to be kosher—that's to say, it contains no additives and has been certified as kosher by a rabbi or an authorized organization. (To debunk one common myth, kosher foods do not receive a rabbi's blessing.) Sometimes small producers don't bother having their products certified. Salts that have been certified kosher are marked as such with a circled K or U on the label.

Kosher salt has a coarse texture, which makes it easier to gauge and control how much you're using. That makes it more popular with chefs than table salt. Some say it has a cleaner taste than table salt. And those large crystals sure do perch up well on a margarita glass.

But bakers beware: Kosher salt weighs at least 26 percent less by volume than table salt. That means if you use a 1/4 teaspoon of kosher salt in a recipe calling for 1/4 teaspoon of table salt, you're adding too little. And different brands of kosher salt have different-size flakes, says Susan Reid, editor of The Baking Sheet newsletter from King Arthur Flour. That makes it hard to come up with an absolute rule of thumb for substituting kosher salt for table salt in recipes. Reid recommends this method: When a recipe calls for a teaspoon of table salt (or 1/4 or 1/2, etc.), use a rounded teaspoon (or 1/4 or 1/2, etc.) of kosher salt. The CHOW test kitchen, which always uses Diamond brand kosher salt, follows a 1-to-2 ratio of table to kosher salt.

Interesting.

I remember very well my orthodox-Jewish grandmother used normal table salt.

Edited May 19, 2011 by Member

[CMSteve]

Rimping - Nim. otherwise try the baking superstores. Yok on the superhighway and the other supplier in Nong hoi.

Edited May 19, 2011 by CMSteve

[butterisbetter]

Rimping - Nim. otherwise try the baking superstores. Yok on the superhighway and the other supplier in Nong hoi.

I've never seen kosher salt at any of these places. You might try asking at Chabad House on chang klan road.

[Lobin]

thanks for the useful replies

my recipe requires kosher salts, so table salt is not suitable..

shall try chabad house and also had a thought maybe kitchen friend out nong hoi way might sell it as well.

[Beetlejuice]

What`s the difference between kosher salt and regular salt?

[newbie001]

If the recipe calls for Kosher use can use sea salt. If you are measuring by weight it doesn't make a difference but if you measure with spoons table salt would be saltier than kosher or sea salt.

Rimping has sea salt in the meat section on the lower shelves.

If the issue is iodized, then there is no subsitute. But the halal butchers/shops would have something equivalent because many iodized salts use blood.

[junglechef]

For coarse salt I use the stuff they use for bbq talapie (Pla Nin) at the road side restaurants. Sometimes I find it too big and have to "pok pok"

(mortar and pestle). Not sure where to buy it here (I get it on the rd. side in Samut Sakon where they make it from the sea water) but I expect it should not be hard to find here

[uppalux]

sea salt availble at most grocery shops in local market

but if you want to be sure , I bought one from small shop in Kad Tonpayom near CMU.

5 or 10 baht for half a kilo

[CaptainFly]

Macro has sea salt both in crystal and granulated and that is what your looking for.