Canning salt

Canning salt, aka "pickling salt" or "preserving salt", is pure salt (sodium chloride) that is used for canning. Other salts can be used but the results may not be so great. Learn all about canning with salt and which salt makes a good canning salt substitute and which ones don't in this article.

You see it on the grocery store shelf under many different names: canning salt, kosher salt, sea salt, and table salt. Are they interchangeable if canning?

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What is Pickling Salt & Best Pickling Salt Substitute: Home Canning 101 - Pickling salt is an important ingredient for a plethora of homemade pickling and homer canning recipes that provide long-term storage and preservation of food. Whether you are a beginner looking to learn the basics of home canning, or a more experienced cook searching for tasty pickle recipes, it is essential to understand what pickling salt is, what it can be used for, and why it is a superior canning salt substitute.

That’s it! I’m gonna can. I’ve watched the most excellent video by Kendra from New Life on a Homestead called At Home Canning for Beginners and Beyond (you can read my review of it here), I’ve got my chicken ready to go, and now all I need is some canning salt. Really? Canning salt? I can’t just use kosher

Grilling season is here and with it the use of rubs and fresh herbs. Today I choose to use them as fresh and in a different matter. As I perusing some very old preserving/canning cookbooks, a recipe for storing fresh vegetables with sea salt popped up. Salt is a natural preserver. I only buy capers under sea salt as I do love how it keeps the flavor. Therefore it seemed only natural that if we can store vegetables, why not fresh herbs?

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One question I've gotten fairly frequently this summer has been about salt. More precisely, people are wondering how to substitute other types of salt for the pickling salt that most canning recipes call for. I've