equipment - What is the point of a salt mill? - Stack Exchange
There is no use for a salt mill. It has a lot of myths surrounding it, but at the end of the day it's merely more "trendy" than a regular salt dispenser. All the ones I've tried grind the salt much worse than expected, leading to actually using more salt, or disgusting salt chunks. When cooking, it's merely annoying, since the salt dissolves ...
Trying to get to the bottom of the issue, I decided to take a few pictures of a few different types of salt. The pictures shown below were taken by...Best answer · 55You'll use less. At least applied at the table, salt is a flavoring which only does it's work at the interface between tongue and food. You don't...14Some grinders have an adjustable size output. I was given a pair of pepper and salt grinders. I initially thought, hmm, isn't the salt usually not...8You'll use less - it takes more effort to grind salt than it does to simply shake it onto your food.7I suspect it's just marketing. I don't think there is much point unless you need to grind rock salt. If you need a fine grained salt, buy table sal...6Larger crystals absorb less moisture. But may be kinda lumpy for the palate. Also, 'culinary' salts (made by nature, with different trace elements)...4This is a bit of a stretch. Surface area. If you are buying the sea salts that have large crystals you can just sprinkle them over the food. Howev...3There is no use for a salt mill. It has a lot of myths surrounding it, but at the end of the day it's merely more "trendy" than a regular salt disp...2A mill or mortar allows you to use salt without any of the additives that most pre-ground table salt has to keep it from slowly turning back into a...2I need something to grind black salt. I've found black salt in a store but it comes in HUGE chunks, like rocks. I would imagine a salt mill would b...2