You know-take a pich of salt, and dissolve it in Lake Michigan. Take a spoonfull of Lake Michigan water-and you hav…“Homeopathic” salt!
Would it be kosher?
Not with all those catfish swimming around in there. 
Yeah, I suppose joking about the blood libel is in poor taste. Sorry.
You’ve got me (Modern Conservadox), Alessan (IIRC Israeli secular IIRC) and Scuba Ben (Modern Conservadox leaning to Orthodox) in this thread. If you don’t know what kashering means, and don’t feel like Googling it, you could obviously ask one of us.
As a bit of a hijack: has anybody else seen the ad for what amounts to a nose douche? Basically, a netti pot solution? The funny part of the commercial is that the substance is advertised as “purified sea water”. Yeah, that would be called "salt water", numbnuts, and you can make it in your kitchen.
I was accused of being deliberately obtuse, and “we know it should be called kashering salt.” All I meant was “who’s 'we?” Also, what percent of people who buy kosher salt use it for kashering, much less knowing what the word is?
Of course I can google easily. Safari has this neato function where you just click on a work or phrase to highlight it, hit shift-command-L and it automatically googles it in a new window. I use it all the time.
I use a butcher knife all the time. It’s my favorite. Never used it for butchering. No one needs to certify it as a butcher knife.
People use kosher salt for… um… uh… well most people don’t use it for koshering or kashering but it still needs a rabbi’s sign off to get certified. It’s like branding it with a religious stamp of approval. Why can’t everyone else do that without being accused of anti-semitism?
I don’t believe that is true.
Well, anyone and everyone feel free to jump in and educate me. I’m genuinely interested.
I spent a few minutes googling kosher certification and kosher salt certification. I ran across a company making sea salt that obtained kosher certification and that linked to the site that certified it and it’s done by rabbis. Other kosher certification sites I ran across either use rabbis or “rabbinic coordinators.” I don’t know what that means.
I am surprised:
“Hence, packaged sugar can be used without a hekhsher. The same is true with coffee, tea, salt, frozen vegetables, dried fruits, and honey, provided no other ingredient has been added.”
-Klein, Issac. A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice.1979, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
(AND bought in the Israeli Book Shop, Brookline. )
I don’t doubt there is kosher salt that is blessed. All I am saying is, I don’t believe it is required. With very few exceptions, all salt is kosher (small k), and does not need to be blessed. But it doesn’t work as well in koshering meat as Kosher (big k) salt. AFAIK, anyone can market large grain salt as Kosher, no rabbi required.
Well, now I can fight your ignorance. It’s a myth that kosher certification involves blessing anything. It’s really just more inspection of production and food handling facilities. But it’s done by a rabbi, and based on religious scripture, it seems.
The inspecting and supervision is carried out by a moshgiah, who is usually (but not necessarily) also a rabbi.
If you can find a requirement for the production of Kosher salt to be subject to rabbinical inspection, consider my ignorance fought.
This might actually have been intentional marketing. I figure folks who purchase the salt because they keep kosher have their kosher salt purchasing already figured out. Someone who doesn’t keep kosher might need more persuading to buy a box of it. “Hey, what else can I use this for?” And salt-crusted shrimp sound pretty tasty.
I already found a salt company that got it’s kosher cert via rabbi. The ignorance fought was the idea it involves blessing, yes?
I thought it was, “Is salt used to kasher meat required to be certified Kosher.” 
Nope. That particular bit was:
No blessing here thanks. Move along, move along.
I have no idea if you can market kosher salt without it being certified. Discerning consumers will no doubt look for their certification label o’ choice. There seem to be quite a few. I wonder what would happen if I marketed my delicious cream of pork soup as kosher?
Not a ting. OTTOMH Good N Plenty uses an insect glaze and is marked kosher. However, the instant you use the trademarked certification symbol of a kashrut organization, you will be sued for trademark infringement. That’s why GNP’s are marked “kosher” but lack any certification mark.
I wasn’t aware that Christianity was in any danger of dying off…
He goes on to say he wants to bring out Christian bagels. W.T.F.? Surely we have reached the End Times. :eek:
Then you’re obviously not listening to enough AM radio.
Well, that is the plan.