Current Events > Why is table salt called table salt anyway?

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Like how is it different from other salt

Because it is clean enough to eat.

Because you put it in something that is vaguely aesthetically pleasing and is thus suitable to put on a dining table.

It's more refined than other salts (sea salt, kosher salt).

Its mined from tables

Kitchen Salt vs (dining) table salt.
Just that.

You use it to season your table

ai123 posted...

It's more refined than other salts (sea salt, kosher salt).

This
It's like the difference between table dogs and sea dogs. Table dogs are fancy bitches that eat at the table.

What about sumo salt?
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Because 'salt' can refer to any one of many, many chemical compounds only one of which is what we commonly refer to as salt. So to differentiate it that one is sometimes referred to as table salt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(chemistry)

Anyone else here ever read Salt by Mark Kurlansky? That book was nuts.

ellis123 posted...

Because you put it in something that is vaguely aesthetically pleasing and is thus suitable to put on a dining table.

Crazy that salt is considered appropriate for the dining table. It was always wild to me, the idea of adding salt to already cooked food to eat. Even before my dad told me to never use salt (the white death as it's called, has killed more black people than even police) I would look at it and think why would I want this.

Of course I had a bad experience as a kid mixing up salt and sugar so that's part of it. Also I have more of a sweet tooth (a different vice) so I never cared for saltiness.

It used to be called the white gold, because it was needed to preserve the food over winter and it was expensive as hell because you had to travel very far to get some.
Being able to add salt to your normal daily food was seen as extremely luxury.

Because it comes from below the water table, and over time "water table salt" was colloqually shortened to just "table salt,"

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Table salt has undergone the process of pasteurization which kills harmful bacteria by burying it in a pasteur.

Raw salt on the other hand is incredibly dangerous to consume unless cooked a high temperatures.

HairyQueen posted...

Table salt has undergone the process of pasteurization which kills harmful bacteria by burying it in a pasteur.

Raw salt on the other hand is incredibly dangerous to consume unless cooked a high temperatures.

WRONG. Pasteurization causes vaccines. You should only be eating RAW salt.

All food salt is sea salt.