It looks like this guy is interested in moving into selling Christian brands of other foods commonly associated with Jews.
I am not a Jew, nor do I know much about “kosher”
But my uninformed opinion was always that sea salt could be un-kosher because the process to produce it was:
- Take in a mass of sea water
- Dry it (usually by the sun)
- Collect, sell, profit.
All sorts of creatures could be captured in this process. Even with a filtering of the sea water, you’d still probably get tiny sea creature remnants in your salt. I always assumed that’s why certain salt wasn’t kosher.
But I’m a Gentile, so what the deuce do I know? 
Any animal too small to be seen by the naked eye does not count.
There was a stir a few years ago when New York city water was found to contain a kind of bug just barely big enough to see with the naked eye. This prompted a debate as to whether the city’s water supply was kosher. Many authorities said it was. Many Jews bought better water filters just to be on the safe side.
The last time I bought a box of kosher salt, it had a recipe on the back for salt crusted shrimp. I always thought that was such an inopportune decision. How did they settle on shell fish?
“Yeah, Bob, we just need a recipe for the back of this kosher salt box. Any recipe you want, as long as it has salt in it. That should be pretty much every recipe ever created. Go wild.”
“Gotta go with a shrimp recipe, then!”
** I realize that it’s not actually kosher or particularly intended to be used by people who keep kosher, I just find it amusing **
Perhaps Bob is Reform. 
I’ve always been curious about kosher salt, but not curious enough to actually research it, so thanks.
Other than that… meh. Pass the agnostic pepper.
Grains of table salt are cube shaped. They don’t stick to foods as readily as kosher salt - (whether we’re talking pretzels or the inside of a chicken). Kosher salt sticks more easily because it has pyramid shaped grains.
People keep comparing teensy tiny grained table salt with all other salts of the world. Apparently it isn’t kosher unless it has an arbitrary grain size. What is this scientific grain size that makes it kosher? What magical grain size teleports blood out of carcasses (and who among us actually has to deal with teleporting blood out of animal carcasses?)? The sea salt in my salt grinder is way bigger than kosher salt. I can get all kinds of gourmet salts in all sorts of grain sizes. WTF is kosher? It’s not grain size, so what is it?
It’s some dude waving his hand and saying “kosher, didn’t lube the machines with pig fat.”
That’s superstition, not grain size.
Let other people wave their hands magically and make big bucks. It’s the American way.
Are you being deliberately obtuse, or does it come naturally? We know it’s a misnomer, and that it should be called “kashering salt”. So what’s your point?
If someone is being obtuse, it would be that someone who thinks anyone knows what Kashering would possibly mean.
Yeah! Stupid people who know stuff!
I can see how you would come to that conclusion. If only there was some source of information, a hypothetical “article” if you will, where you could learn that “kosher salt” is named after its use in preparing kosher food, and not because the salt itself is kosher.
I’d be willing to bet quite a few Gentiles bought better water filters just to be on the safe side, too. Ew. I mean, seriously, there were bugs in the water and people were arguing about whether or not it was kosher?? I’m drinking nothing that contains creatures doing the backstroke.
How’s about this - you keep on calling the salt “Kosher Salt”, and we’ll keep on calling those cute little beetles “Ladybugs.”* Cool?
- Or “Ladybirds”, if you want to get all snooty about it.
Would that be the Episcopal church, with the gay bishop? Are god-fearing Southern Baptists going to take the chance that dishes at the potluck are made with queer salt?
The thing is- he doesn’t replace “Kosher” salt with a similar product to give the “TV Chefs” that gave him the idea an actual alternative. He takes a box of Sea Salt and labels it Christian Salt.
Kosher salt is used because it has different qualities over sea salt that makes it generally better for cooking. (Easy to pinch, can bring out flavor without making things too salty, No iodine to change flavor, harder to use too much.)
It doesn’t make any sense, whatsoever.
Not even remotely funny, DocCathode. You know better than to use that line. Please stick to the quips about your kosher salt shaker.
For good measure, I suggest you recite Al Het twice through.
I am reasonably confident that he also raised the price. I personally think the relevant holy text here is “Never give a sucker an even break.”
Well, according to the article, some of the money from the sale of the salt is also going to Christian charities. So while the guy clearly doesn’t know what kosher salt really is, is providing an alternative. If I’m a devout Christian, I can buy the salt instead of, say, Mortons, and know that some of the money is going to a cause I believe in. It’s not really much different than people buying fair-trade coffee or those bottles of water that promise to donate so much fresh water to kids in Africa for every bottle sold. It’s just another way somebody can engage in slacktivism.
Nope. It’s the grain size.