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Sadly the price for cooking salt and rock salt has gone up though.
Saxa Salt, Iodised 1kg $2.20 ($1.98 S&S) + Delivery ($0 Prime/ $39 Spend) @ Amazon AU
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Waiting for a deal on bath salts
Why? Are they tastier?
no but you will have a better time
Why do you have to bring china into every random topic??? Must be a boring day.
Btw looking up youtube, this isn't only a Chinese thing amongst Japan's neighbouring countries https://youtu.be/-OM0l2Gs9ao?si=i5nT8GVr4e1q_lSD
People are just trying to avoid the 3 eyed nuclear fish from the Simpson's
I do like my K-drama shows.. watching Young lady and gentleman at the moment.. :) those Korean's are crazy when it comes with family drama :) i'm starting to pickup words.. another few years I'll be fluent in Korean
Iodised not Ionised
Sweet deal, thanks OP
isnt this same price at woolies but you kill the environment more by getting it delivered?
Or one could argue that you’re saving the environment by not doing a single trip and incorporating it into a delivery drivers rounds of other deliveries whilst creating employment?
Playing devils advocate of course
That lopsided view only works if
1. You don't drive anywhere except to the shop
2. The supermarket doesn't employ anyone.
3. You are going the shop to only buy salt.That lopsided view only works if
1. You assume people buy one item from Amazon (they could add multiple items)
2. You assume people can get to the supermarkets
3. Distribution centre to supermarket and then shopper to supermarket as opposed to warehouse to shoppers door. One less step wouldn’t you say?@bemybubble: Step 3 is incorrect, all supermarket home deliveries come from the supermarket to the shoppers door. Well at least in WA. No warehouses for direct delivery. And if there was a warehouse it would still be distribution ctre to warehouse,warehouse to shoppers door.same amount of steps
@Geoff01: To clarify Step 3 - Mean for people to go to supermarket - excluding home deliveries. Based on previous comments logic…
Yup. Saxa teleport their containers of salt to the Woolworth's distribution centre who then teleport it to the stores, and then Woolworths teleports it again from the store into your home. So getting it delivered directly to your home from the world's most efficient distribution company absolutely destroys the environment, it's basically like curb stomping a koala every time you order from Amazon.
Amazons efficiency as a distribution company does not come down to efficient delivery it comes at efficiency of wages, 2 very different things. Amazon don't give a rats what their drivers use to deliver or if they plan their routes efficiently as long as it costs them very little to do.
Amazon kinda does care if their routes are efficient, you can read about it here https://blog.route4me.com/what-makes-the-amazons-supply-chai…
They have an app called Rabbit which optimises routes for the drivers. I don't know if they use it in Australia, but they definitely are invested in route efficiency. And it makes sense, they don't want twice as many drivers waiting to pick up packages when half as many would do it.
What are people's view on iodised vs non-iodised salt?
One's iodised and one's not.
That's great insight
Bloody gold 😂
No, iodine.
anti-caking agents
In salt that would probably be Sodium Silicoaluminate, and…
Toxicity: no skin or eye irritation, no carcinogenic, no genotoxic or teratogenic potential.
https://foodadditives.net/anticaking-agent/sodium-silicoalum…
The iodine mostly evaporates off of the salt in two weeks
No. This contains potassium iodate, not elemental iodine. Please read befor spouting.
dangerous additives known as anti-caking agents
More ridiculous. But the anti-caking agent does have a super-scary name.
Any amount of anti caking 535 is toxic. damages kidneys long term. Also has leftover aluminium from processing it.
Misread this one as iodide. This salt is much more stable then.
Iodised possibly gets you over with protection vs radiation
large amounts of iodine ingested protect you from small amounts of radioactive iodine. Useful if you lived in Chernobyl in 1986.
It doesn't protect on its own. It just "protects" (by filling up the storage) from ingestion of radioactive iodine. And yeah, we are not that close to the Chernobyl station :-).
From ChatGPT (which in turn cites multiple other sources)
Iodized salt is a type of salt that has been treated with iodine to prevent goiter. Non-iodized salt is regular table salt that hasn’t had any added iodine. The main difference … is the addition of iodine. Iodine is essential for thyroid health, and its presence in salt is believed to have dramatically reduced the instances of iodine deficiency and the health issues that it causes. If you are eating a healthy, balanced, varied diet, you’re probably getting enough iodine and don’t need to use iodized salt.
We used to have plenty of iodine in Australia, but with seafood being more expensive, and the dairy industry not using much iodine, we can get a lot less.
Iodised salt is a good part of a healthy, balanced diet.
Stops you getting goitre.
Like somebody that I used to know.
Underrated comment
They really should mention that in the breakdown. Height, Weight, Goiter
you need iodine, and it is good for you
Iosised is the way to go. It doesn't taste different and it's good for you . Why wouldn't you use it?
Chefs seem to freak out when people use iodised salt because it apparently has a metallic aftertaste.
I've never noticed it. They also say for the same reason you must eat caviar with a spoon made of pearl, but I've never heard of people complaining that their stainless steel spoon tastes metallic - ever.
PS: I've made skittlebrau before. I bought a carton of Uberbrau - which despite supposedly being german is horrifically garbage beer, and two packs of skittles (one sour, one regular). While it did improve the already terrible beer, try as I might, no matter which colour or whether using sweet or sour or both, I couldn't get it to taste good.
Iodine is only needed in very small amounts to maintain health (avoid goiter and maintain healthy brain development in children/ avoid cretinism)
If you get all your bread and stuff from bakeries that don't use ingredients enriched with iodine, then you should probably get the iodised salt.
not iodised though
Buy 10kg bag for $10 at Costco. Way better value.
Its gone up then. I bought my last bag for $8.79 in perth
You're probably right. I just know that it's roughly less than dollar a kilo.
i find it funny that salt has an expiration date..
I find it even funnier that the Pink Himalayan salt is advertised as being 20,000,000 years old.. but the expiry date is only around 2 years :)
Makes sense for bleached salt which has additives which lose their effectiveness/clumping and iodine evaporation. Salt cannot expire. Wonder why Himalayan salt has one? Probably mandatory for some reason.
maybe due to spoilage by air?
Without water nothing can live in 100% salt.
I find it funny that salt has an expiration date..
That's funny because salt does not have an expiry date
The plastic bag leaches over time.
It’s not mandated. Moisture can get in making it less appetising. Even dead bugs or impurities aren’t nice to eat.
But mostly it’s a way of getting people to just throw stuff out and buy it again, just to be “safe”. Same reason toothpaste commercials show someone putting half a kilo of toothpaste on the brush or shampoo saying “repeat if necessary” (it’s never necessary)
plenty of ppl eat dead bugs. prefer them to live ones anyway :P
But live bugs have that wonderful wiggly mouthfeel
Aka Pakistani cave salt, doesn't have the same ring to it
It doesn’t have an expiry date. It has a best before date. There is a difference.
If you don't store it properly that it might not even last 2 years. High humidity, too hot or dry etc
I think by law they have to say it is best before x date. So an arbitrary number has been given as two years…
BTW the Pink Himalayan salt might not really from that mountain you know…
Same non-s&s price @ Coles and Woolies.
Pretty much no downside buying from woolies/Coles:
- local company (mostly)
- less abusive company (mostly)
- less monopolistic company (mostly)
- less shipping/packaging to get with your regular shopInstant gratification too. I don't have to wait for my salt
The lesser of two evils
you think this is Murica where Amazon can do whatever they want to the workers?
How about waiting for discounts at woolies?
Lots of free salt in Victoria today.
From both sides. All Sky news can do is congratulate him, because he left on top after winning three elections, and the last election was a real banger. All the hate directed at him and all you can do is admit he won at the game of politics through salty tears.
Salt prices going up because all the asians stockpiling it due to fukushima release.
🤦
You added no value here.
neither did u
Why are people getting salty at one another ?
@SuperLate: Name says so. That Sega Console is out of date has not much value, meanwhile can't get the value pack for what it's worth for the Mr.
My God people are stupid. For a start, there is no hydrogen in salt, and therefore no tritium.
Why just the asians? Everyone likes some salt on their chips
Scared of contamination and closest to the point of release.
Sea of full of salt and it's easy to obtain, we'll never have a salt shortage.
Thinking about refilling.
Is this the same salt they sell in the shaker or this on is a bit coarser?Last time I bought a shaker (years ago) it was much finer. Had to drill the hole larger to refill it with this cooking salt.
Sadly the price for cooking salt and rock salt has gone up though.
Well I guess that means there'll be less people with high blood pressure then.
Is this salt salty?
I find most of them to be diluteddiluted by WHAT?
I used to buy this a fair bit, but for anyone that is near a Costco; you can get a 10kg bag of Olssons cooking salt for just under $10.
Saxton 10kg cooking salt at Perth costco $8.79
Aldi's Stonemill table salt about same price or even cheaper.
Is there a difference between table salt and cooking salt?
This is an email that I received a while ago from Cheetham Salt who were the producers of Saxa Salt
Cheetham Salt Limited specialises in providing food grade quality naturally
evaporated sea salt to its customers. Our company has been operating since
1888 and has ISO9001, HACCP, ISO14000 and Biofarmers Organic accreditation.
The key to our high quality is that when we harvest our sea salt we always
leave behind a salt floor in our fields. This means that even though our
salt is crystallised in open ponds, the salt is clean, pure and white.We focus on producing our salt without any artificial manufacturing aids.
No bleach is used in the production of our solar sea salt. Saxa Iodised
Table Salt is a wonderful naturally evaporated sea salt fortified with
iodine.By the way "iodised" simply means that the salt has been fortified with
potassium iodate to provide iodine to the consumer. Iodine is an essential
nutrient. In many parts of the world diets are deficient in iodine and
children are born with cretinism and many people suffer from Goiter. This
problem is also reappearing in Australia and it is anticipated that iodine
will become mandatory. Salt is an ideal medium to introduce iodine as a
public health measure because it is consumed in small amounts on a very
regular basis. You can find out more about it on the WHO website and
Kiwanis website.The Japanese diet is so rich in iodine from seaweed and fish
that Iodine must NOT be added in that country.Time to (profanity) up Carthage
OP sounds a bit salty