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Cooking & Food Talk => Charcoal Grilling & BBQ => Topic started by: Eastex on March 30, 2013, 05:57:36 PM
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I'll admit, Alton Brown got me interested in Kosher salt. I think we still have that round cardboard can of Morton's in a cupboard somewhere but it's been years since its been used. We settled on David's Kosher salt as our brand, the flakes are pretty large and its usually available near us, I even find it at the occasional Wally World although these days I usually pick it when we're by a Cost Plus World Market.
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Peppers the other basic and I'll confess that I haven't found a pepper grinder that I really like. Either I use more black pepper than normal or my grinders have been crap although in my defense I have spent a fair amount of money on some of them. They have always been too meager with the amount they put out. On a trip with the wife to Kohls I think I found my solution. While she was looking at clothes I headed off to the back to see what kind of stuff they had and there on a shelf was the Imusa Mortar and Pestle and on clearance at that.
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It's a heavy sucker, maybe 10 pounds? I just throw in some peppercorns and grind away, still working on coarseness control but I don't have the "not enough" problem anymore and since its so quick I find myself using freshly cracked more often.
So what are y'all's favorite brands, tools etc?
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The wife's got any & all containers loaded w/ sea salt....I feel somewhat iodine depleted lately......
For pepper, I load shotgun shells w/ whole peppercorns & blast away at a brick wall..... ;D
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You got the shotgun shells backwards, they're supposed to be loaded with rock salt!
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No really, works great for cracked pepper, honest..... ;D
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My favorite salt is pink Himalayan sea salt.
We first found a little, 4 ounce, bottle of it at Trader joes for about $6. Now I buy 2.2 pound bags of the course (works better in a grinder than the fine) salt from Amazon for about $15. I still use sea salt and kosher salt for my dry rubs, but the pink salt is better on everything else. I grill steaks over charcoal with only pink salt and fresh ground pepper. they come out fantastic every time.
PS: when we first got it I did side by side taste tests with pink salt, sea salt, kosher salt, and regular iodized table salt. Good Lord, I don't know how I ever used that nasty tasting table salt in the past! After the taste test I threw the 3/4 full table salt container in the trash. Hopefully i don't die from some lack of iodine disease.
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I'm a fan of Kosher salt, but the pink salt has me intrigued. Didn't even know it existed.
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While I use a CA Sea Salt on most of my cooks. This is one of my favorites as part of a rub...
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I've used red salt, but regular sea salt does it for me. I also like seasoned salts as rubs now and then.
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Not sure I'm ready to give up my secret salt just yet. Maybe tomorrow. ;)
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I bought some Pink Himalayan salt at work and havn't looked back. Its my favorite.
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Low salt for me. :(
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Not sure I'm ready to give up my secret salt just yet. Maybe tomorrow. ;)
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Well, we are waiting...
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Ghost Pepper Salt!!!
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That stuff is soooo good!
I don't use it all the time though. My salt grinder has sea salt in it. Which reminds me, I need new ones. Both my salt/pepper grinders grind great but they leave a mess where ever you put them down at. I need ones that dispense out the top.
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I have a great finishing salt I love it is a flur de sal with black truffles. It runs $29 for a small jar. Its really a luxury.
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/m/products/truffle-and-salt/
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It runs $29 for a small jar.
For salt? :o :o :o
Guess I'll never know what I'm missin' lol
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I have a great finishing salt I love it is a flur de sal with black truffles. It runs $29 for a small jar. Its really a luxury.
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/m/products/truffle-and-salt/
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My wife bought a jar of that, it is damn good! Ridiculously expensive, but damn good!
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Not sure I'm ready to give up my secret salt just yet. Maybe tomorrow. ;)
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Well, we are waiting...
fleur de sel at the table (i forget the brand, but it's a lot nicer than most of the brands i've found here)
kosher while cooking
wasn't really a secret, i just didn't want to type it out on my phone =D