In Brief:

Question: Would Healthy Holly buy sea salt?

Answer: Healthy Holly would _ but here’s how to avoid the marketing B.S. of “real” salt and keep from getting ripped off:

1) Sodium chloride is sodium chloride is sodium chloride.  But sea salts tend to lack some of the additives we see in table salts.  (Click “more” below for more info & background.)  There are lots of expensive salts out there on the market — $10 for 16 oz! — claiming that their trace minerals will make you healthier.  They do slenderize — but only your wallet.  Skip them.

If you like to use measuring spoons when cooking, or if you just want to buy one box of salt for both cooking and baking, use the inexpensive unrefined sea salt.

2) I use inexpensive unrefined sea salt (fine grain) for baking.  (It dissolves better than Kosher Salt because of the smaller grains.)

3) If I have any “fancy” salts with large crystals, like a $40 tin of fleur de sel someone gave me as a gift, I’ll never cook with it but rather just sprinkle that on sliced tomatoes or on a roast as a finishing touch at the table.

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