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Mon, Dec 24, 2007

Salt

Posted at 1:15 pm MST to Technology

Salt densities, for use in adjusting recipes:

Kosher salt (large grains): 5 grams per teaspoon

Table salt: 6 grams per teaspoon (I found some in an old saltshaker, since I haven't bought any in a while)

Pickling salt (tiny grains that pack with less air between them): 7 grams per teaspoon.

I haven't measured the big salt crystals in my salt grinder: it has three grind settings, and I don't think I want to grind a teaspoon of each. I generally don't use the salt in the grinder in recipes, anyway.

I'll be using the salt and pepper grinders for dinner tomorrow. I had been planning to make frittura dousa, but with big front burner on my stove still broken, making breaded-and-fried stuff would be too annoying. Maybe I'll make frittura dousa for New Year's.

I've taken a sirloin buffalo steak out of the freezer to cook in my George Forman grill, and I've got potatoes and carrots, and several winter squashes to choose from for sides.

I've been looking at new kitchen ranges... but I'm still trying to decide whether to get the kitchen plumbed for gas. There's a KitchenAid range with decent reviews on-line that isn't hideously expensive, comes in white, and has choices of electric, gas or mixed fuel, (Mixed fuel is an electric oven with gas cooktop burners) but I haven't found a live one in any of the stores to look at.

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