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GENERAL CHEESE MAKING BOARDS (Specific Cheese Making in Boards above) => INGREDIENTS - Everything Else => Topic started by: captaincurd on February 24, 2010, 02:36:31 AM
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I read some posts from people wanting to know how to compare different kinds of salt.
The following may be useful -
Density of the salt (microns)
Type of salt lbs/cu.ft g/ml crystal size
Morton
Top Flake Coarse 57-61 .91-.98 870
Top flake Topping 60-64 .96-1.03 550
Top flake Fine 62-69 .98-.110 370
Cargill/Alberger
coarse topping 33-41
Alberger flake 44-48
Alberger special flake 45-54
Diamond crystal kosher 33-41
alberger fine 44-83
alberger fine flake 51-57
I hope this helps someone. It showed me the importance of measuring by weight when possible.
source: Morton/Cargill
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Good Post.
I'm still looking to source some non-iodized flaked salt. All I can seem to get it small boxes of it at the grocery store..
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Wayne, maybe someone up by the lake makes some food grade flake salt? I mean, they mine thousands of tons of the stuff up there.
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Cleveland does actively mine a huge salt deposit.
But that does not seem to translate to finding what i need at Sam's or Costco.
Maybe i need to find a local factory outlet for Mortons...
:)
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If you are near a city try a bakery supply wholesaler, you might need to get 50 lbs, but salt is pretty cheap
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Wayne I believe Dairy Connections Sells flaked salt. Yes they do! I thought I bought it there.
Here (http://www.dairyconnection.com/commerce/catalog.jsp?catId=8)
They sell thing in the commercial end they don't sell in the hobby section too. I saw a lot of stuff when they toured me around not on the hobby site. Hobby is just for smaller packages.
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Just seems counter intuitive to sit directly on top of one the worlds largest salt deposits, and then pay shipping to have salt shipped in from Wisconsin.
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Kinda like living in Napa Valley Ca., and ordering grapes to be trucked in from Washington state
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Did you try Cargill? 2400 Ships Channel (216) 651-7200.
Or see if GFS in Strongsville has it in stock or will order it for you. They carry other Cargill products. It's just up the street, I think same spot where the old Home Depot used to be years ago. :)
8789 Pearl Rd.
Strongsville, OH 44136
440-243-5749
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When I was staitioned in Hawaii we I lived next door to the sugar mill (awful smell but cheap rent) and we had to have sugar shipped in from Calfifornia
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I have been using "Morton's Pickling Salt" with excellent results. It is produced to dissolve quickly for making pickling brine. Inadvertently it works with cheese and costs about $1 per pound.
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I have been using "Morton's Pickling Salt" with excellent results. It is produced to dissolve quickly for making pickling brine. Inadvertently it works with cheese and costs about $1 per pound.
I picked up a bunch of that at seasons end really cheap at WalMart it does disolve almost as fast as it hits the water.