The types of salts in cooking – sea salt, kosher salt and table salt

Question

I’ve heard of the various types of salt and I assumed that sea salt was mostly marketing.

But I keep hearing and seeing references to each type to salt when on a wiki-walk or google search.

– what do the various types of salt “bring to the table” (pun intended).

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Answer 1

The main difference is that Kosher Salt is flakes, and thus have half the density of fine table salt. So if a recipe asks for a tea spoon of kosher salt, and you add a teaspoon of table salt, you have added twice as much salt as you should have.