Alton Brown on salt

[Tigerlilly0777]

Ah, Salted Caramels, Divine.xx

[WoundedEgo]

Salt excites your tastebuds... for a while... but then your senses go dull and you don't enjoy food without more and more. Salt is a worse killer than sugar because it causes high blood pressure. We all need to break the salt cycle. Cook at home, and don't use salt.

[cameraguy1968]

@WoundedEgo And once more the token health nut...go away.

[WoundedEgo]

@cameraguy1968  Please visit... cdc.gov/salt/

[mephitofthelake]

@WoundedEgo No. -you- please visit: youtube.com/watch?feature=play­er_detailpage&v=KX9lh0TPQdw#t=­436s

[mephitofthelake]

@WoundedEgo Also, please read this: scientificamerican . com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to­-end-the-war-on-salt

(Remove the spaces. Sorry, youtube hates hyperlinks)

[WoundedEgo]

@mephitofthelake I looked at this article. It is, in fact, extremely informative. I happen to have hypertension, and the evidence is that for me, salt reduction is associated with lowered blood pressure, but it may in fact well be that it poses no threat to the healthy. I'll withdraw my objection!

[WoundedEgo]

@WoundedEgo cdc says, and I quote, Too much sodium is bad for your health. It can increase your blood pressure and your risk for a heart attack and stroke. Heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death in the United States

[spd1274]

AB only endorses products that he will use at home. Being someone educated in film he knows the power of product placement (which is why it almost never occurs on Good Eats). If he endorses a product, you can bet it is of good quality, but not necessarily low cost. Lets be honest here, he isn't a poor man.

[twmd]

Melting point of NaCl is 801 °C so it's not that they melt at different rates it's surly that that they dissolve into solution at different rates?

[trlkly]

@twmd That is what I believe he meant. I've heard him say melt instead of dissolve before.

[fortyandfabulous]

@trlkly thats not cool!

[baboon500]

i thought salt was just salt

[mace1337]

Apart from the commercial angle this video has some good info!

[BriscoCountyJr23]

Kosher salt can't hold a candle to Himalayan Crystal Salt. No chef worth his salt would ever use a refined and taste robbing salt like a kosher salt.

[trlkly]

@BriscoCountyJr23 That's silly. "Flavor" in salt means impurities and thus lack of taste control of the final product.

[natespaceorama]

Holy shit! I don't think you would have much food left after you melted salt. Salt melts at 1474 degrees F.

[lasvegashigh]

Thumbs up for the blow torch.

[larrfirr]

He was not so much endorsing Diamond Crystal as he was endorsing kosher salt. He does like the process they use, but who knows what other brands use the same process.

[westkan]

Sounded great, but how would know if it's a load of BS?

[mrbobbyh]

That's why you've got to do your homework!

[pepsidude102]

@westkan I don't think Alton Brown would endorse anything he doesn't like. He's got a lot on the line (his opinion as a cook) if he's representing a certain type of ingredient.

[allaboutalton]

It was from the Diamond Crystal Salt company's website

[GoodETV]

Alton Brown would never do this on his show...They greek everything.

[allaboutalton]

This isn't Alton's site, but I'm certain he would appreciate your thanks.

[JPOULTON]

where did you get this video

[MitchSchaft]

Thanks, Alton!