I used to wonder why people felt they had to buy iodized salt. I thought: isn’t plain old salt good enough for you folks? Of course I understand it’s importance now, but reading this thread caused me to wonder… where did people get their iodine before it was added as a supplement to salt?
I’ve figured that part out, but I have several other related questions–some involving my own iodine intake. I don’t want to hijack this thread so I’ve started a boring little General Questions thread here.
I consider that an advantage. I also specifically by table salt without iodine (and kosher salt has none).
I get plenty of iodine from seafood, which I enjoy. I think it adds an off-taste to salt.
Well thanks for sharing that – I can’t wait to tell my wife with her fancy-ass salt grinder.
I knew it was bullshit.
Her salt grinder is likely adjustable however - it’s handy for getting salt granules the correct size for whatever application you require.
Like rubbing in the open wound you’ll have when you tell her The Dope said her salt grinder was bullshit 
Glass recycling is (in most areas) a losing proposition, in that it actually uses more energy than starting with raw material, in aid of conserving something that nobody can really imagine running short of.
You will find claims that “recycling glass saves X energy”, but this just compares the cost of using rendered cullet rather than starting from scratch. The energy costs associated with collecting waste glass and getting to that point dwarf the savings.
Don’t ever think, “It’s okay, I’m going to recycle it, so it’s all good!” --especially when it comes to glass.
Take your glass empties back to the depot rather than putting them in the recycling bin (unless you live in some godforsaken backwater that doesn’t mandate refillable containers, in which case lobby for some sense) choose recyclable plastic over glass when you can, and buy a real grinder instead of rewarding a company that’s embraced the mantra of “Use it once, then throw it away!” like it’s 1955 and they still have an excuse for not being able to see past the end of their noses.
Listen up bitches. You need the Zasenhaus Turkish Mill: http://www.zassenhaus.com/index.php?i=189
It is a fucking Turkish coffee grinder design reinterpreted by fucking Germans to be the ultimate grinding tool. It is easy loading, with an extended crank handle to generate maximum moment arm. You get fully and easily adjustable steel or ceramic grinding burrs to adjust the grind from microscopic diatomic all the way up to tooth breaking chunks. Each full revolution of the handle generates a full teaspoon of salt, pepper, cocaine, human bone, or whatever it is you are grinding. It has a bottom capture reservoir, so you have the option of whether you want to grind directly onto your food, or into an integrated container for later disbursement.
It comes in a stylish antique brass with Turkish designs, the harmonies of which increase the flavor of whatever is inside. It grinds with a strong authoritative sound, like Clnt Eastwood grinding his teeth before he shoots you, so you know it doesn’t fuck around.
Your fuckin little glass and plastic McCormick grinder is sad and pathetic, and it reflects those qualities onto you. Because you use it you are worthy of nothing less than the opprobrium scorn and contempt of all who know you.
Zassenhaus, bitch!
Wow, it’s like you know me. Yes I am sad because I have such a piece o’ crap in my house. Eeore and I were just talking about how shitty life is when you have a cheap salt grinder. It’s like life is no longer worth the struggle. I don’t know, maybe I should give up.
Now if I had a sweet German grinder made of brass, woo-hoo, a tingle just went down my back, man I gotta get one of those. How much?
$96 for a used on in Germany and $161 for new in the UK, I will have to step up my checking of coin return slots in pay phones greatly.
My parents have something like that. Only, instead of relying on a bunch of Germans to convert it for him, my dad bought a brass coffee grinder on a trip to Europe, brought it home, and converted it into a pepper mill himself.
You fucking pussy.
You know, I can count 6 different salts we have in our house, there’s kosher, pickling, plain iodized, flaky pink, chunky red, and some smoked salt. I can appreciate people’s desire to have differently-textured salt for different things, although I still call bullshit on all the different flavors and colors. I can almost see people grinding salt to get the size of grain they prefer.
But you know what really gets me? Salt graters exist. How pretentious is it to get a big, pink rock and your ridiculous grater out and ever-so-delicately grate your own salt?
Wankers.
Did you think making your life worth living would be cheap?
No, you are right, I need to step up to the plate. So how do underground kidney sales work?
This.
They didn’t. Goiter secondary to iodine deficiency used to be startlingly common in areas like the central US where people had no access to seafood and the soils are iodine-deficient. That’s why iodine supplementation of table salt was started.
Can’t you just put a big rock of unground salt on the dinner table and lick it between bites like we did in the good old days? You goddamn kids these days with your salt grinders and your… your… pheasant-pluckers.
Do NOT sugges this to Mr. Horseshoe. Dude would so go for it. Of course, he’d still salt food before/during cooking, but he’d very much like a salt lick to go with it.
Cite: we currently have … counts on fingers, gives up … at least a half-dozen completely different kinds of salt in the house. I don’t have a problem with that - they DO have their unique uses, although plain kosher flakes make up 99% of our salt usage. But some days, I wonder if I married a deer.
Close!
CMC fnord!
At the risk of outing myself as a cheap bastard, this has been my experience as well. By the end of the refill the grinder is pretty much shot.
This. You’ll pry my Magnum from my cold dead hands.
SALT SALT…
What about trying to get peppercorns WITHOUT THE GRINDER!!! :mad:
I have my own grinder and I want a peppercorn mix, and bought 3 types of pepper to make it.
I am forced now to buy 3 types of pepper imprisoned in their own grinder of cheap plastic, while my expensive metal/glass one goes unused.
( I used the same type grinder for Sea Salt but the Salt killed it. 
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