If you dump it on your garden it’ll make your vegetables salty so that when you eat them you don’t have to add seasoning. The more salt you put the better the plants will do. My grandpa Ahmed used to tell me about that trick when I was a kid and his yard was the most wonderful desert.
It’s what plants crave.
I used to have a pre-filled salt grinder that said “freshly ground for fresher taste”. I always thought “you don’t understand how rocks work” whenever I would read it.
Surface area is a thing. You can use differently grounds salt for different effects.
Sure, but that has nothing to do with being freshly ground resulting in a fresher taste. You can buy different grinds of salt.
You’re entirely right, I just wanted to interject some nuance.
The surface of the salt grains reacts with what is in the air (moisture, smells), slowly changing the surface over time, and since it’s that surface that touches our taste buts most, the taste of the salt will be different.
Salts are also often not pure sodium, but have added elements that give it a distinct taste and aroma. That original taste/aroma will be lost over time, because aroma = smell = particles flying away in the air. Long exposure to a strong smell will also cause the salt to acquire that different smell as part of it’s new aroma.
Starting from larger grains and grinding them shortly before usage, would thus give salt that smells and tastes more like it’s fresh from the salt factory. But I do wonder how many people would be able to tell the difference in a blind test.
Yeah. Works for pepper not for salt.
I wonder if that’s because of the microplastic contamination more than the actual salt lol
Maybe it’s like a bottle of water and the expiration is for the plastic
my 250 million year old salt has expired
Yup, that’s Earth alright. Rookie numbers, as usual.
well‐preserved, clay and carbonate‐bearing sedimentary fan deposit located on the western edge of the crater
This fan is estimated to have formed approximately 3.2–3.8 billion years ago when ancient streams flowed into the Jezero crater lake
Where i can buy 249 million years old salt?
Could be sleeping in chemicals from the plastic.
And yet somehow the billions-years-old atoms in your body encode a 35 year old, and then a 78 year old, then …
