The best Salt & Salt Substitutes: Reddit reviews

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EDIT: my favorite vegetable earned me gold!?!?

Cucumbers are one of my FAVORITE snacks. I swear, I have a full menu of cucumber ideas. Some of my favorites include, but are not limited to:

• Sliced w/ Trader Joe's chili lime seasoning.
• Sliced, topped with a little bit of cream cheese and TJ's Everything Bagel seasoning (I am so obsessed with TJ's stuff, obviously)
• Cucumber salad (cucumber, red onion, tomato, avocado, lime juice, salt and pepper)
• sliced with toasted sesame seeds on top and a splash of vinegar (to emulate a cucumber salad you'd find at a Japanese restaurant)

I could go on and on! Thanks for letting me ramble on about cucumber :)

especially if you put some Flavacol on it. it’s the secret ingredient all theaters use to make their popcorn taste better than microwave popcorn

Yeah, I came here to say this. I recently bought some of this salt, and it's great for finishing dishes when you want a salty crunch on top.

Here's where you can buy it.

https://www.amazon.com/Trader-Joes-Everything-Sesame-Seasoning/dp/B06W9N8X9H/

That's where we got it from. But, we are making a trek to the closest Trader Joes in a couple weeks (Portland, about 2 hour away).

Personally I think potassium is the most difficult nutrient to get enough of. To help with my daily goal I have switched over to using lite salt which is an iodized blend of sodium and potassium. Over the past 7 days I have averaged 4500 mg of potassium from dates, soy milk, coffee, carrots, and lite salt.

(To be fair, I am currently consuming an unsustainable amount of dates, but this 11 lb box isn't going to eat itself!)

For most people, leafy greens are the best bet for easily increasing your intake. One cup of cooked chard is nearly 1000 mg.

Did y'all know that making "movie theater popcorn" is actually dummy easy and pretty dummy cheap too

You just getcha popcorn, melt down some coconut oil, drizzle that on your popped corn, and then sift in some Flavacol, of which you only need very little, and viola!

Not to mention that using coconut oil is a must no matter what seasoning you're throwing on there. Gives you a nice element of sweetness and basically acts as an adhesive for all the seasonin' to stick to

Theoretically shouldn't be too hard. Toss your pork rinds in a little butter for sticking power and then some Flavacol to coat.

I've spent far too much time on Reddit today (it's still my 'Saturday') and your post is by far the most important thing I've learned in my travels. Just purchased a box at Amazon.

I'm not really sure. I got this box of sea salt flakes.

I also bought a cool small wooden bowl with a stone cover that I keep the salt in. That way, I can dip in for a pinch and sprinkle it haphazardly like all the Youtube cooks I watch. XD

If you want legit movie theater flavor pop-corn, you’ve got to get a box of Flavacol. It’s the flavoring the theaters use. It’s legit:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B004W8LT10/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_H65-FbDBG7ARV

There is also No-Salt where potassium replaces the sodium for people with high blood pressure, or others who need a low-sodium diet, but it seems like not a lot of people know about it despite hypertension being a big problem. Just because it never became a big deal doesn’t make it less necessary a product.

https://www.amazon.com/NoSalt-Sodium-Free-Salt-Alternative-11/dp/B000H185N6

Get a thin layer of oil in your pot. turn the heat onto medium-high. throw in a few kernels. wait for the kernels to pop. add the rest of the kernels. put on the lid and leave it a bit ajar, pop until you hear pops ever couple seconds.

if you want movie theater popcorn flavor, use flavacol and add it to the kernels before they pop -- I usually just give it a thin dusting. many theaters use coconut oil for their fat but I find it way too coconut-y when I do it at home, I just use vegetable oil.

if you want other flavors like butter or salt or whatever, put the popped kernels into a bowl and then add the flavorings.

Okay... so why is a prescription required for 10meq of potassium, but I can just buy this from amazon? https://www.amazon.com/NoSalt-Sodium-Free-Salt-Alternative-11/dp/B000H185N6

If it's so dangerous, shouldn't I not be able to buy this online??? It's really confusing

It’s on Amazon! I’ve heard it’s quite a bit cheaper at physical Trader Joe’s stores, but there isn’t one anywhere near me, so I was fine with the price.

It's what's on an everything bagel. Sesame seeds, sea salt, galic and onion. When I travel for work it goes with me as a small but versitile seasoning. Here's an Amazon link., it's cheaper at Trader Joe's tho.

I made my own bacon. Someone had posted on here in the past that the tricky part was getting hold of curing salt, but upon searching I found that a seller on Amazon had it. Somewhat expensive (1700yen for a 450g jar and another 1600yen shipping) but given that you only use a small amount per batch it should last for ages.

Here's the product page, but I must have been lucky because the seller no longer has it in stock.

NoSalt

0.25 tsp of this has 640 mg of Potassium.

And it's cheap too. (I dont really use the so called "electrolytes" that you can buy commercially... they are too pricey)

Flavacol. All you'll ever need for the rest of your life in a ~~$6~~ $7-ish carton on Amazon. If you dig that movie-theater popcorn flavor, anyway.

https://www.amazon.com/Gold-Medal-Prod-Flavacol-Seasoning/dp/B004W8LT10

(the recommended oil with Flavacol is coconut, btw, fwiw)

The real secret is flavacol.

Amazon sells it in bulk, or you can get this stuff: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M8HPGMU/

comes in different sizes. we use the 4oz ones with our stir crazy popcorn maker.

You can buy in bulk and get cheaper with just the popping corn, carton of flavacol, and the coconut popping corn oil, but its a little more work to measure it all out. YMMV.

It doesn't have to be the "no salt" brand. Most salt substitutes are the same at your local grocery store. If your medical industry promotes a low fat/sodium diet it should be easy to find. Here is an amazon link.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000H185N6/

Here is the potassium No Salt on amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/NoSalt-Sodium-Free-Salt-Alternative-11/dp/B000H185N6

You absolutely must have potassium or you can suffer death causing heart arrhythmias.

I think you would like a flaky finishing salt, like this one.

Since you are primarily after the texture, this should really satisfy your craving. I think you should also reduce the overall salt in a recipe by at least 1/3. Adding a finishing salt can make things taste more salty. Since it sounds like your sodium intake is quite high, you should also consider using MSG in place of some salt in a recipe. For example, a 50/50 mix of salt/MSG will reduce the overall sodium by quite a bit. MSG contains less sodium than table salt. It will also provide that savory taste you like from the flaming hots.

https://www.amazon.ca/Trader-Joes-Everything-Sesame-Seasoning/dp/B06W9N8X9H/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1537360013&sr=8-2&keywords=everything+but+the+bagel+seasoning&dpID=411wrzuMNiL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

This is the cheapest on amazon.ca(it says $14 for people who dont want to click) buying American products like that on there is usually too expensive to be worth it. The really good products end up being made up here after a year or so, either by them being available or a different brand making basically the same thing. It took longer than I thought for halo top knockoffs but it's happened. They're all too pricey for me for a pint and the icecream I get isn't much higher than halo top for the plain flavours so I didn't mind much with that though.

Gold Medal 2045 Flavacol Seasoning Popcorn Salt, 35 Ounce https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B004W8LT10/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_ZJB0Q1M0QWCQ5C0BHC41

It’s what the theater adds to the popcorn to give it that signature taste. It’s not just butter and salt. This stuff is what you think of when you think of movie popcorn.

It’s life changing.

I did the math No-salt was cheaper then the supplement. I like no-salt better then combined salt. Since it just makes my sugar free juice taste like a sports drink.

Amazon.com : NoSalt Original Sodium-Free Salt Alternative, 11 Oz : Grocery & Gourmet Food

Thanks!

Prague powder 1 is also known as pink curing salt, you'll use it for making bacon / pastrami that kind of thing. It prevents bacterial growth and gives the meat that ham like taste you're used to.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008X6KE0E/ref=cm_sw_r_u_apa_fabc_r863FbQXP2ZRH

There are things that prevent bad pork trots. Uncooked bacon from the grocery store (unless labeled as uncured) is brined with nitrates and then cold smoked. Nitrites are another option but are for dry curing (salami, ham legs, etc...)

Don’t get me wrong, hot smoked bacon is just as amazing as cold smoked bacon. Hot smoked bacon doesn’t crinkle up when you fry it and is “technically” already cooked so it can be eaten straight. Cold smoking just adds in that extra oomph. Your bacon will crisp up, crinkle and brown v. that layer of sugars that get left in the pan with the hot smoked version. You can also do up cheeses without a melted mess, salmon (if you’re into that kind of thing) and any other food product that wouldn’t be able to handle 200f.

The one I use is this one. It's potassium-based salt (potassium chloride) instead of sodium-based. So no sodium, all potassium basically.

(And my local grocery store has it; I don't buy it at the insane price Amazon has it listed for.)

As others have commented: It can taste metallic/different to some. But I personally can't tell the difference, especially when using it as an ingredient.

Pickle juice. Chicken bouillon.

Are you somewhere Amazon delivers?

https://www.amazon.com/NoSalt-Sodium-Free-Salt-Alternative-11/dp/B000H185N6

https://www.amazon.com/Morton-Lite-Salt-Sodium-Table/dp/B0005YM0UY

> Prague Powder aka pink salt is probably the only ingredient that’s hard to get.

I've typically got it on Amazon (https://www.amazon.ca/Hoosier-Hill-Farm-Prague-Powder/dp/B008X6KE0E)

Seems to be currently unavailable however.