Where to buy kosher salt?

Kurooi

Specifically ground salt without additives. I prepare a lot of BBQ meats and have had so far no luck at supermarkets or online at getting some coarse salt I can trust doesn't have additives.

Feisar

Bitta Google Fu:

https://www.americanfood.ie/product-p/a-d057.htm

twignme

I just bought a box at Supervalue in Loughrea.

Kurooi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122351866#Comment_122351866

3lb! Not bad at all thank you!

Kurooi

That's odd I couldn't find any in supervalu but then maybe it's not in the usual spices section?

tphase

sea salt is what I use when a recipe specifies kosher salt....same thing afaik

L1011

(forum software is refusing to insert the quote of the previous post about sea salt here)

They're not the same thing; but no salt is really particularly different anyway.

Kosher salt is just large flakes, there's only a few circumstances where you actually need it; but as its a different density you can't just swap out volume recommendations for other sizes of flake/grain. Weight is the same obviously.

Only additive that's in table salt here usually is an anti caking agent, we don't iodise salt like the US does.

The Nal

Just buy Maldon salt

Kurooi

I have been to date using maldon or coarse sea salt yes. But also that can be more expensive too.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122352988#Comment_122352988

That's valuable information thank you, I didn't know we don't iodise salt, if so then sea salt might not bother me as much.

Mystery Egg

I use Maldon salt. Available in Tesco, Dunnes and SuperValu. But it is crazy expensive.

The Nal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122366645#Comment_122366645

Its 4 quid but will last months if you just use it for steaks and the like for a nice sear

Ryath

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122366672#Comment_122366672

A little does go along way. I use it in pretty much everything I cook bar for salting pasta water I use table salt. I bought a 1.4kg bucket cheap from wholesalers during first lockdown and I got nearly 3 years out it!

Dial Hard

The OP is using it to - by my reading, anyway - draw moisture out of large cuts of meat for the barbie, though. I wouldn't be using a salt as expensive as Maldon for that, I'd be grabbing the cheapest coarse salt I could find. Maybe I'm reading him wrong, though, and he's just preparing dry rubs or something. In which case, yeah, grab one of the large buckets of Maldon online.

OP might also find a few more options online by searching for koshering salt, as that's what it's technically called. It gets shortened to kosher in recipes and the like and that can cause confusion as people tend to think it's the salt itself that's kosher, which isn't the case.

Kurooi

I wanted kosher salt because the non iodized salt is (supposedly) more effective in a wet brine. Curing. That's before I knew that we don't iodize salt as much as in US, I might have delved too deep into American cooking advice. However still seeing the options I might go with kosher salt because it seems slightly cheaper.

Yes I indeed use a fair bit of it, last week maybe 150 grams to cure 2x2kg cuts, of course most of that stays in the water. I would start using it for dry curing too.

Dial Hard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122381682#Comment_122381682

For brining I'd just use table salt, tbh.

And yes, ware the American recipes. Their entire food system, from farm to fork, is vastly different to ours. It can lead to a lot of advice that just doesn't apply here.

ablelocks

any recommended sites for the maldon buckets? not available to ship to ireland from amazon looks like

and i've just discovered they do smoked and garlic and chilli versions…