Himalayan pink salt...

[TreasonousBastard]

not that easy to find in your usual places, I ran across some at Homegoods and tried it. Whatever's in that stuff, it does perk up the dish.

I'll pass on the whacko talk about vibrations in some strange sites I saw, but it does taste great and adds "something" to everything I put it in. I've been pretty much salt-free in my cooking for a while (there's more than enough in just about every can of soup or bag of takeout) but this stuff has me changing my habits.

Anybody have any special uses for it?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. "Anybody have any special uses for it?"

Melting yellow snow?

[Fuddnik]

2. So that's what that shit in a canister in my kitchen is.

But, we don't have yellow snow in Florida.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. I bought it at Costco. Pretty good flavor.

[egold2604]

4. Trader Joes has it for sale with its own grinder

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

5. It's a nice finishing salt, looks pretty

But tastes remarkably like salt. I got some in granulated form, and when my youngest son discovered that the color comes from iron oxide, he started referring to it as "rusty salt".

[Thor_MN]

7. That's because it is salt...

Your son is correct, it is salt with iron rust in it.

It's 90%+ Sodium Chloride, with <10% other stuff. Any "health" claims are just marketing BS.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

8. Exactly my point

Other than its looks, there's nothing special about it.

My youngest son gave me a mortar and pestle made from pink salt for Christmas. It actually does a nice job for making pesto (although I will probably stick with the food processor), salting it quite nicely.

[beac]

6. I love Himilayan pink salt. The Trader Joe's grinder is a good way to try it out.

I think it costs about $2.

As for special uses, I like it on popcorn and agree with PP that it makes a nice finishing salt on fish or vegetables.

[csziggy]

9. One use for it and other specialty salts is as gifts

A year or two ago I got a box of a dozen salts from around the world. One was the Himalayan pink salt, the rest were from different parts of the world.

I haven't figured out a reason to open the box much less any of the jars. I should re-gift it but don't know anyone that would think it was worth anything.

[SCantiGOP]

10. Its main use

Is so a waiter can act snooty while telling you that someone had to scale Mt Everest to get your special salt.

[Bjornsdotter]

11. Costco for me

We have a few different types of salt but we do like this one.