Salt - By The Sack

[Cartierusm]

I bought a little salt. If it weren't for John mentioning pickling salt I would have probably continued to buy Diamond Kosher salt which is $4 at Safeway. But since I've had some problems with cheese dying in my brine I had to change it. I didn't get pickling salt, becasue salt is salt, but I bought some, see below, 50 pounds $8 at Smart and Final.

[Cheese Head]

That is an industrial size bag of table salt, it would probably take me about, oh . . . . my whole life to eat that amount!

Good thing you are using it for brine making!

[Tea]

That's about the size of he bag that I recently bought.  Never going to run out of salt now! 

[Likesspace]

Sheesh Carter!
I thought the 5 lb. bag I bought from Dairy Connection was big.
Do you do ANYTHING on a normal scale?!? (just kidding)
Great find. You should be set.

Dave

[Cartierusm]

Dave NO!! I'm a little obssesive, and with cheese making this is mild compared to other hobbies.

[Cheese Head]

OK, mines not as big as Carter's .

But at WalMart's wholesaler SamsClub is was only USD3.57!

[Cartierusm]

yeah John but you're is prettier, much more Pop Culture which I love.

[wharris]

Since Cleveland sits on the largest salt deposit in all of north americal, I have you all beat.

[chilipepper]

WOW... my blood pressure goes up just reading this post!

[Cheese Head]

Just realized that this 25 pound bag of Table Salt that I am using to make brine for my Gouda's like Sailor's flag on Free Flowing Salt also has anticaking ingredient, not good, will stop using it, I still have ~ half the bag left, lots of cooking salt I guess!

[Sailor Con Queso]

I use food grade swimming pool salt for brine. That salt has lots of huge fist sized chunks so there is obviously no anti-caking agent. However, I do not think that salt with anti-caking is a problem for brine. However I won't use that when direct salting of cheddars, etc.

[DeejayDebi]

I bought a 50 pound bag of kosher salt last spring for brining and it's half gone. Between my cheeses and meat brining it goes fast!

[wharris]

Where do you get your salt?  I've been looking for a source  of flaked salt for a long time.

[linuxboy]

Wayne, Morton's won't sell it to you directly?     (216) 664-0728

Have you talked to Gordon Food Service up in Strongsville on Pearl (past Whitney, but before the onramp)? They can usually custom order.

[Buck47]

For cooking I've been using Flake Salt from Marion-Kay Spices Code: PBO23  A bit pricey at  $6.00 for 3.00 ounces but they do sell in bulk.

When I run out I will be trying Sailors idea of food grade swimming pool salt.

BTW: Marion-Kay is a good suppier of spices. (this is the company Harland Sanders used for making his chicken) The 99-X Chicken Seasoning is very close to the Original Recipe. The chicken needs to be cooked in a modified pressure cooker filled with oil.