Salting, kosher salt, sea salt, table salt
I want to start using kosher and sea salt exclusively in my cooking. Is there a ration for converting the quantities in my recipes?
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I want to start using kosher and sea salt exclusively in my cooking. Is there a ration for converting the quantities in my recipes?
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https://food52.com/blog/3377-10-salts-to-know
"So how to adjust for this in recipes where one is measuring salt by volume? A cup of Morton’s salt can weigh almost twice as much as a cup of Diamond’s salt, and therefore taste twice as salty. The intrepid Jill Santopietro at Chow.com came up with the following equation simply by weighing the salts:"
1 teaspoon fine sea or table salt =
roughly 1 1/4 teaspoons Morton’s kosher salt =
roughly 1 3/4 teaspoons Diamond Crystal kosher salt
The most accurate way to compare them is by weighing. For example, a cup of Morton kosher salt weighs about 8 ounces, whereas a cup of Diamond Crystal kosher salt weights about 5 ounces and a cup table salt weighs about 10 ounces.
So, for each volumetric unit (teaspoon, tablespoon, cup, whatever) of table salt, use 1 1/4 units of Morton or 2 units of Diamond Crystal.
Sea salts come in so many types and grinds it's impossible to generalize.