Salt for Gentiles

Seriously? It was If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof.

After thinking about the Catholics and reading the linked article to make sure, his salt isn’t Christian salt (similar to different kosher certifiying organisations, maybe): it’s been blessed by an episcopal priest, so it’s “Episcopal Christian salt”. He needs to market “Roman Catholic Christian salt”, blessed by a proper Roman Catholic priest, too, because AFAIK, for the Catholics other priest’s blessings don’t count.

I would be surprised, though, if some Catholic orders with monasteries or similar footholds in the Holy Land aren’t already selling Salt from the Holy Land - Dead Sea Salt is widely sold for baths. Maybe if they clean it for eating, they can sell it for table use, too, and raise money for funds.

Also, if he’s simply giving the proceeds to Christian charities, he’ll soon incur the wrath of the different denominations - some more liberal christian churches will have charities that help people in a way that their fundie “brethrens” don’t approve of, and vice versa. (It’s one thing to feed homeless or hungry children, but if the charity is a gay-re-orientation therapy, or family planning with condom distribution, one half of the Christians won’t like their money going there!)

There was that one guy that Jesus brought back from the dead. Was Lazarus a zombie?

I have some other points, if anyone is still reading this thread.

Kroger Kosher salt: Hekhsher or not? I have a box of it. Yes, there’s a hekhsher. I had to Google to find out it means that U with a circle around it.

Different grain size in Kosher salt? One said here that the big grains (pyramidal?) stick to the meat better. Another said different size K-salts kasher equally well. I’m not a Jew, so I don’t kasher, but I have a recipe where K-salt is sprinkled over oiled potatoes before baking. Morton’s K-salt clung very well, but the bigger Kroger K-salt doesn’t cling well. It it the same for meat?

Kosher salt tastes the same as non-iodized table salt? Not quite, according to Cook’s Illustrated magazine. They made two batches of their standard chicken soup. Their tasters said the table salt soup had a faint chemical taste.

By the way, the same test was run later, K-salt vs. several expensive sea salts. The tasters said there was no difference. So, if you use sea salt, save it for appearance.

It depends on the denomination. Catholics recognize priests in the Apostolic succession: That is to say, a priest is someone who was ordained by someone who was ordained by someone … who was ordained by one of the Apostles. Some Protestant denominations (including the Episcopals and the Lutherans) maintain the Apostolic succession, so their priesthoods are valid in Catholic eyes.

Isn’t regular salt the same as sea salt? Only the rgular salt is mined from salt beds hundreds of millions of years old (ancient sea salt). I could never get this-salt is NaCl-as is all salt.

So called sea salts have other minerals trapped with the NaCl as it is not purified sea water. The other minerals give the salt different subtle flavors that some people can detect and enjoy. In addition, the sea salt is made in a different process causing different crystallization to occur, giving the salt a different texture that can be best for different applications. This includes crystal size.

All kosher salt is pyramidal, but the size of the crystals can vary. All kosher salt works well over table salt with it’s very small size.

My guess about the taters is that the salt crystals stick well to watery liquids, as the juices from meat. The shape of the potatoes and the oil may have made it suboptimal.

However… I am not a salt scientist!

Kroger Kosher salt is more like shavings than large crystals. :confused:

I believe the crystal structure refers to the salt on the microscopic level.

I should have known Alton Brown would help! A link showing crystal sizes- about half way down the page.

Thanks, I thought they were talking rock salt. This stuff would make a great Kosher Martguerita. :slight_smile:
once again, I am the poster child for ignorance.

Also look at aquarium salt. It’s basically “sea salt” but is a whole complex of minerals to make it “sea salt.”

Well from what I understood (reading Peter de Rosa, an ex-Roman Catholic Priest, for example) the blessing (one of the Seven Sacraments) that Roman Catholic priests receive makes them special (that’s also why it can never be taken off again: the priest can be de-frocked and thrown out, but from catholic belief, he can still validly bless wine and bread and perform all those other special things).
And Roman Catholic doctrine understands blessings differently than Lutherans (I don’t know anything about Episcopalians). While Lutherans do have apostolic succession, they don’t bless their priests, they simply call them into office, and priests don’t have special miracle powers, either (every lutheran layperson can celebrate the Meal; only Roman Catholic priests can celebrate mass and do the Transsubstitution thing). Also, Lutheran priests can’t bless buildings (like Churches or schools) or things (like bombs and weapons), only say a general prayer of blessings should be please given.
Plus, there’s all that question of validity concerning ecumenical mass/Meal - the Roman Church says that it can’t celebrate Mass if said by a non-Catholic priest, it’s just a normal meal/service, but not the special thing.
So I thought that in the eyes of Roman Catholic doctrine, a blessing by a non-Catholic priest wouldn’t count.

If I add “Blessed Christian Salt” to this product will there be an explosion followed by everything vanishing in a puff of smoke?

Sounds worth the try, don’t you think? Be sure to tape it and put the video where we can see it if you do!

BTW, didn’t the linked article in the OP say that he wants to put a red cross on the salt to mark it christian? Shouldn’t that mean he will give the donations only to the Red Cross? Or could he be sued for false advertising /misuse of trademark otherwise? (Is the red cross trademarked by the Red Cross org.?)

If he used a red cross composed of five squares joined together, that would probably be a trademark infringement. But if he uses a red cross composed of two long, skinny lines, that couldn’t reasonably be mistaken for the Red Cross logo, and therefore would not be an infringement.