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

Kosher salt is larger, rougher and is less prone to overuse in cooking.

Table salt is smaller, smoother, and would be easy to over use in cooking.

Sea salt is salt collected from a sea/ocean which is mostly the same as the previous two but has other impurities and salt types that are not present in iodized table salt