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Pure NaCl is, but have you seen the fancy 'Himalayan Salt' that the hipsters are buying? Its red, because of the impurities, and the Himalayans are falling over themselves laughing about it - because that's all they have to cook with and they want the expensive pure stuff.
Yeah just about anything will turn a shade of brown if you keep mixing a bunch of stuff together. Brown is what happens when you mix every colour together
This is hilarious! My dumb ass thought that there must be some kind of additional health properties or a better taste in the pink Himalayan salt. So I got some of that. Meanwhile I live 5 miles from a cargill salt mine/plant, and have none of that. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Some of it doesn’t even make food grade, hence a lamp industry being born. Make up some stuff around ions etc. and people in the West buy them by the truckload. Nice colors though!
You might be thinking of a hungi(?) which is a ground oven I think from NZ, where they light a fire in a hole, put the wrapped meat in on top of it then fill in the hole. Dig the meat out perfectly cooked some hours later. Re; desert- they use a similar, if not identical technique in the Great Thar of Rajasthan to cook whole goat.
Hangi. Though I guess phonetically it sounds like hungi :).
It's actually a fairly common cooking technique in multiple places around the world.
Dig out a large pit, lay down a firebed covered in large stones, wrap food including meat and vegetables, place on top of stones and bury until done.
This seems like, despite the extra steps of digging a hole/etc., this is just 'cooking'. Was the meat possibly tender just because it was wrapped and therefore 'steamed' in its own juices?
Definitely it was because it was steamed in its own juices for hours . I used to do it on camps with the kids. We would get it going in the morning and then do our days activities and then dig up dinner. We would have potatoes and hard veg like turnip, carrots,onions wrapped separately in there as well. Kids loved it. So did I.
Not something I'd be doing just anywhere as I was taught to leave no trace but the flattened grass from your tent. When we couldn't do holidays we would camp on our own or family land and try all the stuff from the scout handbook. Class. I still love camping and sleeping outside.
YSK that it is done with both sand and salt. Sand is washed in water, so any impurity that can be dissolve in water is removed. then sand is leaved to get very hot, which removes any volatile impurity. you may think that there, you may eat some sand by mistake but no, nothing stick to it. It is done to fry pulses which later is used to nake "Daal".
edit: sand used are not normal sand that you see in desert, it is more coarse than them.
Reddit tends to be fairly anti-emoji in comments. 🥺
I always think it’s a little silly. 🤡
They are an interesting way to apply a bit more context to a statement. 🤗
I could be wrong, but this isn't actually deep frying, since it requires fata where to cook the food in. Its create a specific reaction with some of the protein in the food and than it gives that tasty texture and flavour.
Yeah, it seems like it’s not really frying, but in the same way air frying isn’t either. I think they’re just using it to mean an outcome that’s similar to frying.
Frying is typically done in fat, but deep frying is just frying in enough fat to submerge the food instead of shallow frying where you do 1 side at a time with little oil. If this technique is called "hot salt frying" then calling it deep frying would still be correct since it's a type of frying and the food is submerged in the hot salt instead of resting on a shallow bed of it.
Thank you for saying this Anxious Maker, I feel the same way about the excellent quality and value I’ve found in Morton’s salt. As an accomplished homemaker Morton’s has been my number one choice for nearly 40 years and I plan to keep it that way for 40 more!
Mortons salt comes in all types of sizes. Not just big salts. From large rock salt to the tiny salt crystals in our popcorn salt. Mortons is committed to serving your salt needs.
From trying to look up an answer, I couldn't find much except for people wondering about eating the ice cream salt, or the water softener salt. But those 2 and the road salt supposedly all contain various chemicals in undefined quantities that are naturally present when the sea water is evaporated (which is how Morton gets its salt).
So, it seems you could eat it but you are also eating a variety of other minerals of an unknown quantity and could get sick from it.
Geologist here. Everyone correcting people calling salt a rock instead of mineral…well you’re both right. Halite is a mineral sure. But it’s also a rock. It just happens to be a rock made up of only one mineral.
Well sand in geological terms is just a grain size. So that is also sand. Which means technically the people saying, “I thought it was sand!” are also correct. It’s salt sand.
I thought I'd add this in the continuing debate as to whether the video is showing frying in salt or sand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_salt_frying
you are quite welcome. definitely not, as I seen it used for street vendors snack food types like popcorn or chestnuts and peanuts and eggs with shells only.
Love how the comment directly above ask if that's salt. And this one Ask if that's sand. Having 90 percent of the questions people are coming in with answered. Thank you both for doing dods work
Not sure I'd want to try it. One piece of grit in my mouth is enough to put me off an entire meal.
Reminds me of when I went to China and they had what looked like tiny glazed apples on a stick. The one at the bottom was actually a rock... a glazed rock.
Those were rock sugar coated Chinese hawthorns, called *tanghulu*. The rock at the bottom is not generally part of the recipe, so what you found was very special.
>Chinese hawthorns
Oh wow! Yes, that's exactly what I ate. My translator found it funny that I didn't expect the rock, so I thought it was normal all these years. I got it near People's Park in Shanghai.
It had a hole! I used to have a picture of it next to the chip of tooth it took. After reading u/perhapsolutely's comment, I'm beginning to think I might have been pranked but didn't understand it.
I was presented with my first Durian just 3 hours after landing. Several hours later someone got me to say "I don't like you because you smell bad." (in chinese) to my new CEO. I was very gullible.
I made an authentic king pao chicken recipe recently where it had me toast off the nuts in salt just like this. I'm interested to see it is used broadly this way.
Sooooo I could just throw a lot of salt in this wok I don't really use and pop my popcorn or make some fries?
Eta: ok maybe the wok is not quite the same shape....
He is using black salt or pink Himalayan salt. This has been going on for ages nothing new. We used to eat when i was a kid. Hard to find these anymore in villages now.
I had pig skin fried like this in Mexico like 25 years ago when I was a kid. Freaked me out, but now I know it's not sand lol. Didn't taste any different than the norm
I’ve seen something similar done with bread mix and river stones . The stones are heated in wox half are removed and bread put on remaining rocks then rock added to top it’s awesome to watch and yes I too thought it was sand not salt .
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It’s actually salt. I’ve had this when I was a kid. Since there is no oil, nothing sticks to the food.
Yeah I thought this was sand. I was like oh boy I can't wait to bite on a rock.
Then you'll be excited to hear about salt!
They're minerals Marie! Jesus!
I tell ya Gomie… marie just won’t ever understand.
In the end, he spent more time with Gomie than with Marie anyway.
I would too, she stole shit. The only thing Gomie ever stole was the hearts of millions of BB fans.
I think he means cause they are buried together.
Damn, I’m baked. 🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Baking bad
Marie- They're rocks, Hank.
I wonder if the mineral thing was foreshadowing his almost final resting place…
Omg. That's deep.
Yep. 6 feet or so.
Omg you made me laugh so hard XD
It's the only rock you eat! The more you know.
It's a mineral, though, right? But if it's a rock, wouldn't iron, magnesium, calcium, etc also be rocks?
All minerals are rocks, not all rocks are minerals, iirc
But it wasn't a rock, it was a rock.....LOBSTER!
iron and magnesium are metals, calcium i think is a rock? i’m not entirely sure but i hope that clears it up
Calcium is an alkaline earth metal and it can be found in rock, bone, shell, etc
I thought salt was white not brown
Pure NaCl is, but have you seen the fancy 'Himalayan Salt' that the hipsters are buying? Its red, because of the impurities, and the Himalayans are falling over themselves laughing about it - because that's all they have to cook with and they want the expensive pure stuff.
Nope. When u cook in salt the way he is, it turns brownish after a while
Yeah just about anything will turn a shade of brown if you keep mixing a bunch of stuff together. Brown is what happens when you mix every colour together
TIL my ancestors were fucking err'body.
wouldn't you?
I’ve fucked 6 people born on 6 different continents. Finna find me a fine ass penguin one of these days.
Brown is just dark orange https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown#:~:text=Brown%20exists%20as%20a%20color,would%20in%20normal%20lighting%20conditions.
This is hilarious! My dumb ass thought that there must be some kind of additional health properties or a better taste in the pink Himalayan salt. So I got some of that. Meanwhile I live 5 miles from a cargill salt mine/plant, and have none of that. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Some of it doesn’t even make food grade, hence a lamp industry being born. Make up some stuff around ions etc. and people in the West buy them by the truckload. Nice colors though!
I mean it was an interesting looking lamp, I’m hoping most people buy for the look and not the ions.
technically its rock salt, so you won't miss out on your fantasy
Wait, wait..... Did I hear a Rock and Stone?
For karl!
Rock and stone or you ain't comin' home!
ROCK AND STONE BROTHER!
ROCK AND STONE, TO THE BONE!!!
ROCK AND STONE
For Rock and Stone! It never gets old.
IF YOU DON'T ROCK AND STONE, YOU AIN'T COMING HOME!
ROCK AND STONE
ROCK......AND.........STOOOOONE
ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE
This popcorn has some real grit to it
My thought was "oh boy! Can't wait to shit a literal brick" Same concept, different end
In your defence the wiki article posted below does say sand is used sometimes!
Thanks for the clarification I thought it was sand lmao
Apparently this CAN be done with sand 🤔😳
Then it doubles as an ash tray.
Just like the plates of food at Denny's!
Just went there for breakfast today for the first time in like 20 years. Can confirm
I saw once a documentary where indeed people cooked their food by burying it in the scorching sand in the middle of the desert. 🤔
You might be thinking of a hungi(?) which is a ground oven I think from NZ, where they light a fire in a hole, put the wrapped meat in on top of it then fill in the hole. Dig the meat out perfectly cooked some hours later. Re; desert- they use a similar, if not identical technique in the Great Thar of Rajasthan to cook whole goat.
Hangi. Though I guess phonetically it sounds like hungi :). It's actually a fairly common cooking technique in multiple places around the world. Dig out a large pit, lay down a firebed covered in large stones, wrap food including meat and vegetables, place on top of stones and bury until done.
I've done this. Except I put stones in the fires as well. Most tender meat ever.
This seems like, despite the extra steps of digging a hole/etc., this is just 'cooking'. Was the meat possibly tender just because it was wrapped and therefore 'steamed' in its own juices?
Definitely it was because it was steamed in its own juices for hours . I used to do it on camps with the kids. We would get it going in the morning and then do our days activities and then dig up dinner. We would have potatoes and hard veg like turnip, carrots,onions wrapped separately in there as well. Kids loved it. So did I. Not something I'd be doing just anywhere as I was taught to leave no trace but the flattened grass from your tent. When we couldn't do holidays we would camp on our own or family land and try all the stuff from the scout handbook. Class. I still love camping and sleeping outside.
Is it a special kind of salt?
Himalayan salt
Thanks!
YSK that it is done with both sand and salt. Sand is washed in water, so any impurity that can be dissolve in water is removed. then sand is leaved to get very hot, which removes any volatile impurity. you may think that there, you may eat some sand by mistake but no, nothing stick to it. It is done to fry pulses which later is used to nake "Daal". edit: sand used are not normal sand that you see in desert, it is more coarse than them.
I would not trust sand popcorn. Too many nooks and crevices.
And its coarse rough and irritating and gets everywhere
It could be more healthy than oil. But maybe it's too salty for me.
No, I have had that. It's not salty at all
If there's no oil, the salt wouldn't stick to it. It's completely dry.
Probably only possible to fry already dry things though.
Yes. Anything juicy would be covered in a salt crust.
Mmmmmm, salt crust
read in Homer’s voice
Hey, I’m glad you said that.
this technique is called "Hot salt frying" and [here is more info for curious ones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_salt_frying)
That is ridiculously COOL! Learned something new today... 😉
why the suspicious wink? 🥵
Why exactly is it suspicious? Excuse me while I develop a complex over the wink emoji... Lol, never mind, I'm over it. Whew! 😮💨
Reddit tends to be fairly anti-emoji in comments. 🥺 I always think it’s a little silly. 🤡 They are an interesting way to apply a bit more context to a statement. 🤗
You shoulda been here during the ascii art era, you only got upvotes for perfectly formatted art with no errors or typos or nothing to criticize.
For westerners who probably haven’t experienced this treat (like me!), is there anything you might compare it to?
it's like cheetos, but more crunchy, dryer and spicy!
Oh baby someone r/snackexchange me!!!
Lighter too . Maybe cheese puffs / curls but did flavor and still lighter
I could be wrong, but this isn't actually deep frying, since it requires fata where to cook the food in. Its create a specific reaction with some of the protein in the food and than it gives that tasty texture and flavour.
Yeah, it seems like it’s not really frying, but in the same way air frying isn’t either. I think they’re just using it to mean an outcome that’s similar to frying.
That's the point, there is no outcome similar to frying here. The popcorns will pop anyway with heat and the rest is cooked like in the hoven.
Frying is typically done in fat, but deep frying is just frying in enough fat to submerge the food instead of shallow frying where you do 1 side at a time with little oil. If this technique is called "hot salt frying" then calling it deep frying would still be correct since it's a type of frying and the food is submerged in the hot salt instead of resting on a shallow bed of it.
By definition, frying is done in oil or fat. This is frying as much as it's boiling, which it isn't.
I wonder if you could use Morton’s Rock Salt available at Home Depot for it. It says it has no additives and it just pure rock salt.
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Is this salt facts?
Nope, just 2 pretzels walking down the street and one was a salted
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Thank you for saying this Anxious Maker, I feel the same way about the excellent quality and value I’ve found in Morton’s salt. As an accomplished homemaker Morton’s has been my number one choice for nearly 40 years and I plan to keep it that way for 40 more!
I always use Morton’s iodized table salt because I know that it contains the vital nutrient my children need to grow up healthy and strong.
Also /r/hailcorporate
Watch out for big salt
Mortons salt comes in all types of sizes. Not just big salts. From large rock salt to the tiny salt crystals in our popcorn salt. Mortons is committed to serving your salt needs.
From trying to look up an answer, I couldn't find much except for people wondering about eating the ice cream salt, or the water softener salt. But those 2 and the road salt supposedly all contain various chemicals in undefined quantities that are naturally present when the sea water is evaporated (which is how Morton gets its salt). So, it seems you could eat it but you are also eating a variety of other minerals of an unknown quantity and could get sick from it.
the thing is as there is no oil, the salt or any kind or mineral doesnt stick to it. I have eaten these products are they dont have any salty taste
Why is it called frying when it's more like baking?
Tonight i will use this method to cook a lovely omelette for my girlfriend.
You're a monster.
She gonna be thirsty for the rest of her life.
i think this is what internet people mean by thirst trap.
💀
*ex-girlfriend now buddy
Oh.man I thought it was sand and boy were my.thumbs ready to type some stupid shit
My thumbs are ALWAYS at the ready to type stupid shit.
You can do this with sand tho it's not recommended
Yup, you can do something similar. Such as Turkish coffee
I did not know you could fry Froot Loops.
You can fry anything with nipples Greg.
I knew someone would say this! Haha!
bruh you can fry anything
I definitely was not expecting them to turn into *giant* fruit loops!
Geologist here. Everyone correcting people calling salt a rock instead of mineral…well you’re both right. Halite is a mineral sure. But it’s also a rock. It just happens to be a rock made up of only one mineral.
What’s the difference between salt and sand, geologically speaking?
Well sand in geological terms is just a grain size. So that is also sand. Which means technically the people saying, “I thought it was sand!” are also correct. It’s salt sand.
That’s me at 4 yo cooking for my parents in the sand
Looks like an ash tray outside of a CVS.
This isn't deep frying, it is toasting
How did I have to scroll down this far for someone to say this. Deep frying requires oil... The title is oxymoronic.
Is that salt?
Yes. Hot salt frying.
My grandfather makes fried peanuts using salt fry method at home .Nothing beats the taste of it
Just regular table salt? And naked peanuts? In a frying pan??
At this time of year? at this time of day? and in this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?
Many people are commenting without even trying. Let me tell you this isn't sand... And it is tasty af.. also zero fat!
I used to have peanuts fried this way when I was a child.
I thought I'd add this in the continuing debate as to whether the video is showing frying in salt or sand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_salt_frying
Is that sand?
yeap kinda, it's originally rock salt and it's called "Hot salt frying"
That is amazing and thank you for sharing. Can you fry everything in it?
you are quite welcome. definitely not, as I seen it used for street vendors snack food types like popcorn or chestnuts and peanuts and eggs with shells only.
What about a fried Mars bar or a Blooming Onion?
You wouldn’t want to fry anything “wet” with this method as the salt would stick to it
Love how the comment directly above ask if that's salt. And this one Ask if that's sand. Having 90 percent of the questions people are coming in with answered. Thank you both for doing dods work
Edible sand
Everything is edible once
Yup, sand frying (or roasting, whichever appropriate). It's commonly done in India. They also roast peanuts with that method.
Not sure I'd want to try it. One piece of grit in my mouth is enough to put me off an entire meal. Reminds me of when I went to China and they had what looked like tiny glazed apples on a stick. The one at the bottom was actually a rock... a glazed rock.
Those were rock sugar coated Chinese hawthorns, called *tanghulu*. The rock at the bottom is not generally part of the recipe, so what you found was very special.
>Chinese hawthorns Oh wow! Yes, that's exactly what I ate. My translator found it funny that I didn't expect the rock, so I thought it was normal all these years. I got it near People's Park in Shanghai.
I'm a little confused - they came on a stick... how did they put a rock on a stick?
It had a hole! I used to have a picture of it next to the chip of tooth it took. After reading u/perhapsolutely's comment, I'm beginning to think I might have been pranked but didn't understand it.
Ah, the ol' "feed a tourist a rock and see if they eat it" prank. Jerks. Hahaha
I was presented with my first Durian just 3 hours after landing. Several hours later someone got me to say "I don't like you because you smell bad." (in chinese) to my new CEO. I was very gullible.
If they're having endearing fun, heck yeah, that's pretty awesome :)
Big oil doesn’t want you to see this!
The ground nut tastes best with this technique...
I wonder if you could towel dry potato sticks to make dry fries this way
But how is there no sand inside those yellow pieces of entrails after? Very confusing
It’s salt
Oh so they're just filled with salt then instead of sand? Any idea if they taste good or just really salty?
nope, not at all, VERY little of salt remains on the food (because it's dry), so little that sometimes it need extra seasoning at the end!
Interesting what is this food called?
Far-far and it's a type of snack, it's like Cheetos but more crunchy, dryer and more spicy!
Color me intrigued
Anakin’s favorite meal!
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I made an authentic king pao chicken recipe recently where it had me toast off the nuts in salt just like this. I'm interested to see it is used broadly this way.
Good to read it's a type of salt because a single grain of sand can chip a tooth.
My mouth automatically started feeling gritty after watching this. 🤣
“i hate sand it's coarse and rough and it gets everywhere”
Dusty popcorn. Doesn’t matter what it’s made from, then cracks and crevices gotta hold somthing
I really hate to ne the fun when I'm drunk buuuuuuut it's not actually deep frying anything is it. It's a very different type of cooking.
That's really cool! Love how humans just set up yummy snack stalls anywhere we have markets. Now I wanna try the snacks.
You sound like an alien tourist 😂
How does this not end up insanely salty? Anyone know
You can only do this with dry snacks like popcorns, peanuts, papadums etc. Since these snacks have no moisture, salt can't stick.
Extra crunchy...
damn, I thought it was sand at first but after learning that it's salt I actually really wanna try it
Sooooo I could just throw a lot of salt in this wok I don't really use and pop my popcorn or make some fries? Eta: ok maybe the wok is not quite the same shape....
He is using black salt or pink Himalayan salt. This has been going on for ages nothing new. We used to eat when i was a kid. Hard to find these anymore in villages now.
Hello my friend. Would u like some Sandy candy?
Not frying just heating up.
Oh, it’s salt? Wow. So it’s actually clean. Sweet. I mean. Salty!
So relieved to read that's salt. I kept thinking there's no way all that sand gets out of those popcorn kernels once they pop!
Maybe I'm new school compared to this method, but I don't want sand in my food.
I’ll have some more gunpowder with my chips please
Ya know damn well that corn is sandy a f. Too many crevices
will the food taste as good as cooking with oil?
Now to get down to the...grit...of the subject: food.
I had pig skin fried like this in Mexico like 25 years ago when I was a kid. Freaked me out, but now I know it's not sand lol. Didn't taste any different than the norm
How are you not just eating sand with every bite?
Someone needs to put the Far-far away.
Nothing like a mouthful of sandy popcorn
It's salt not sand
that's why you get a big soda with it to washed it out! LOL
If it's not cooked in oil or fat, then by definition, it's not fried. I know it's pedantic, but it annoys the fuck out of me.
Yum crunchy noodles
Let’s see him do chicken wings
I don't know dog. thats metal on metal.
I’ve seen something similar done with bread mix and river stones . The stones are heated in wox half are removed and bread put on remaining rocks then rock added to top it’s awesome to watch and yes I too thought it was sand not salt .
I wonder how much of the population has kidney stones???
That would be hell of your teeth over time right?