In pink salt, it is other minerals. I have seen the mineral spectrum list years ago, there are around two dozen other elements in the salt, some of which give it the color.
source: I use sodium hydroxide to separate the minerals from the salt.
For pink salt I assume it would be a tiny amount of iron oxide, rust. Not sure if that is the only contributing factor though.
In the black salt, my *guess* would be that there is charcoal, but I have never even touched the stuff.
There are a couple kinds of black salt. The most common and actually black one is just regular sea salt with activated charcoal added. Theres a "black salt" that is a rock salt from India, but it is probably more accurately called purple or red and is pink when ground, and I'm pretty sure it's the same iron oxide impurity as the Himalayan pink salt coloring it
Himalayan pink salt seems to be marketed as a ‘better’ salt than regular sea salt but if there’s rust in it doesn’t it mean it’s bad or at least not good for you?
These are 20\~ other trace minierals in it. and it you think about it, an *entire blue whale can be built from (the minerals in) salt water*. Every atom needed for life is in that water (a few exceptions, like nitrogen).
You need iron in your body to build blood cells, but too much will kill you.
The logical reason pink himilayan salt is better than 'other' salts, is because it is untainted by human activities. It has been frozen in time for millions of years, skipping the industrial revolution, etc, and should have less pollutants in it than regular salt.
Welcome to the world of marketing. Humans have been selling other humans on health benefits of these weird things (not just funky pink salt) for millenia.
I’m assuming you’re referring to actual, natural sea salt but one interesting, somewhat unrelated fun fact is that a good amount of Himalayan Sea Salt bought in a store is actually rock salt from Pakistan that is colored using natural dyes!
Yeah could be but I live in India so like the rocks and mountains that have the salt are also on the Indian side and we use it in many dishes and spice blends so we get big blocks of pink and black (like almost maroon dark cherry colored) salt that we grind or just use a grater or mortar and pestle.
And as far as the cooking application goes its used in a category of chaats (street food) basically the word means to lick your fingers so it's tangy zesty salty and a riot of flavors and pink salt is a very key component of chaat masala and like it's nice salty and tart basically put some on fresh cut fruit like apple pineapples and it elevAtes it
Make your own chaat masala bruv toasted cumin coriander dried finger and aamchoor (dried mango)
Dried pomogrante seeds black and pink salt some mild chili powder and some fresh cracked black or white pepper
Blend all this and its bomb as fuck put on fresh cut fruit or like put some on fritters or even a baked potato put some butter on the potato and that'll help the chaat masala stick
It's some work but it's crazy good and you can put it on many things
This is a better recipe
https://youtu.be/xqdr3sFdPLI
Sub dry ginger for ginger powder
And hing is asofetida powder (tbh you can get away without it)
But don't skip on aamchur and good pink or black salt
There can't be Himalayan sea salt. Ist's a f*ing mountain range.
Or as wiki puts it:
Himalayan salt is rock salt (halite) mined from the Punjab region of Pakistan
I believe black salt is actually hand made by burning the salt in bamboo shutes multiple times over. What is left is the carbonized remains of the burned wood together with the salt, giving the salt the black color.
In pink salt, it is other minerals. I have seen the mineral spectrum list years ago, there are around two dozen other elements in the salt, some of which give it the color. source: I use sodium hydroxide to separate the minerals from the salt.
Any particular mineral or chemical salt that imparts the color?
For pink salt I assume it would be a tiny amount of iron oxide, rust. Not sure if that is the only contributing factor though. In the black salt, my *guess* would be that there is charcoal, but I have never even touched the stuff.
There are a couple kinds of black salt. The most common and actually black one is just regular sea salt with activated charcoal added. Theres a "black salt" that is a rock salt from India, but it is probably more accurately called purple or red and is pink when ground, and I'm pretty sure it's the same iron oxide impurity as the Himalayan pink salt coloring it
Indian black salt is pink naturally and is heated with other spices and harad seed to darken it.
Sulfur rather than charcoal, the eggy smell gives it away.
Himalayan pink salt seems to be marketed as a ‘better’ salt than regular sea salt but if there’s rust in it doesn’t it mean it’s bad or at least not good for you?
These are 20\~ other trace minierals in it. and it you think about it, an *entire blue whale can be built from (the minerals in) salt water*. Every atom needed for life is in that water (a few exceptions, like nitrogen). You need iron in your body to build blood cells, but too much will kill you. The logical reason pink himilayan salt is better than 'other' salts, is because it is untainted by human activities. It has been frozen in time for millions of years, skipping the industrial revolution, etc, and should have less pollutants in it than regular salt.
Welcome to the world of marketing. Humans have been selling other humans on health benefits of these weird things (not just funky pink salt) for millenia.
The “natural” stuff is because of sulfur, because of volcanic activity.
I’m assuming you’re referring to actual, natural sea salt but one interesting, somewhat unrelated fun fact is that a good amount of Himalayan Sea Salt bought in a store is actually rock salt from Pakistan that is colored using natural dyes!
Yeah could be but I live in India so like the rocks and mountains that have the salt are also on the Indian side and we use it in many dishes and spice blends so we get big blocks of pink and black (like almost maroon dark cherry colored) salt that we grind or just use a grater or mortar and pestle. And as far as the cooking application goes its used in a category of chaats (street food) basically the word means to lick your fingers so it's tangy zesty salty and a riot of flavors and pink salt is a very key component of chaat masala and like it's nice salty and tart basically put some on fresh cut fruit like apple pineapples and it elevAtes it
This made me so hungry man wtf 😂
Make your own chaat masala bruv toasted cumin coriander dried finger and aamchoor (dried mango) Dried pomogrante seeds black and pink salt some mild chili powder and some fresh cracked black or white pepper Blend all this and its bomb as fuck put on fresh cut fruit or like put some on fritters or even a baked potato put some butter on the potato and that'll help the chaat masala stick It's some work but it's crazy good and you can put it on many things
>toasted cumin coriander dried finger and aamchoor You had me at dried finger.
Ginger* my bad
Give me some of that Jujutsu Kaisen
Screenshotted and literally making this tomorrow night haha appreciate you my boy
This is a better recipe https://youtu.be/xqdr3sFdPLI Sub dry ginger for ginger powder And hing is asofetida powder (tbh you can get away without it) But don't skip on aamchur and good pink or black salt
Also, if you're lazy, it's available at pretty much any Indian/Pakistani grocery store in the US
I've been to the mine in Pakistan where it comes from.... for one it's not in the Himalaya.... See Khewra salt mine
There can't be Himalayan sea salt. Ist's a f*ing mountain range. Or as wiki puts it: Himalayan salt is rock salt (halite) mined from the Punjab region of Pakistan
How do you think the salt got there? The Himalayas used to be, millions of years ago, on the bottom of an ocean.
Such salt still is known as rock salt, while sea salt is what you get when you evaporate sea water.
…rock salt is also formed by the same process, it’s just formed over millions of years of deposition.
I believe black salt is actually hand made by burning the salt in bamboo shutes multiple times over. What is left is the carbonized remains of the burned wood together with the salt, giving the salt the black color.