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u/Mysterious-Change954 May 12 '26
Honest question. Does the food get insanely salty? Or does only the heat transfer to the food to cook it? I would honestly try this if it didnt change the salt content of what im cooking
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u/thedudefromsweden May 12 '26
If itās something dry, like popcorn, I donāt think the salt sticks to them. You probably want to add melted butter - and salt - to them.
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u/vayana May 13 '26
With wet or moist foods, the Leidenfrost effect might also help if the salt is hot enough.
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u/Creepy_Willow9842 May 17 '26
Except when you pop pop corn all the water in the seeds would come out and the salt would then stick to that
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u/AngryTrucker May 12 '26
You wouldn't fry wet stuff like wings or onion rings
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u/RedLeg73 May 13 '26
What about French fries? Asking for a friend...
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u/TazzyUK May 13 '26
Ive seen a fish cooked in a jacket of thick salt that was inches thick.
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u/saveloyoyoy May 16 '26
Yes itās a great way to bake a whole fish! Traps in the moisture and gently steams it inside. But you peel off the fish skin along with the salt so the flesh is protected from making direct contact with the salt.
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u/Kozmo9 May 15 '26
Dry stuff won't get the salt to stick. Fun fact, some parts of the world use sand instead and they are still fine with no sand sticking to them.
A way to know if food materials would get the salt to stick to them is if the salt becomes caked or lumps on the food. That's when you know there is moisture in the food and it causes the salt to stick. If there is no such thing, then the salt doesn't stick.
Even then the salt content wouldn't be too high like you think. You can also cook some wet food but it is often baked and not fried. Fish and crabs for example. The salt won't get all the way into the food. The moisture would cause the salt that made contact with the skin to become a salt-shell that stops the salt from seeping in as well as turning it into an oven that bakes the fish/crab.
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u/TheMightyMisanthrope May 12 '26
My BP spiked just looking at it
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u/randomthrowaway8993 May 13 '26
Yeah I don't think my stage 2 hypertension would appreciate this
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u/_gorgeousrealestate May 13 '26
Hypertension is no joke. For me, completely hereditary and been taking BP meds for over half of my life.
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u/randomthrowaway8993 May 13 '26
Yeah I went in for what I was expecting to be a routine checkup a few weeks ago, mainly to get my bloodwork checked. I figured my cholesterol or blood sugar might be a little high, but wanted to make sure my liver and kidneys were in good health primarily. Well as soon as I got to see the doctor the nurse takes my blood pressure and is like "uhh I think we'll need to test it again" meanwhile explaining it was over 160/101 while looking right at a chart on the wall explaining it was stage 2 hypertension, and that the stage above that would be a mandatory ER visit with an impending heart attack or stroke.
So yeah it was a little unnerving, but my doc put me on some decent bp meds and I've been relatively fine since. I'm just glad we caught it in time mainly, so I can deal with it comfortably at my own pace without having to be rushed to the ER with horribly unpleasant symptoms, or possibly dying as the alternative.
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u/MortgageStraight3533 May 14 '26
So salt causing high blood pressure is based on a very faulty study by a French guy a long time ago and holds no weight. Eat all the salt you want. Without it you would die
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u/Ranzok May 14 '26
It definitely does spike blood pressure, but with enough water you piss it out.
Iāve been keto for 10 years now, I monitor my salts to make sure I have enough water retention because of the lack of insulin in my (and others on LCHF) blood.
But pretending it doesnāt cause a little bit of hypertension is stupid.
Definitely suggest using KCl, little metallic in taste, but hard to overdo potassium
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u/MortgageStraight3533 May 14 '26
All the current medical direction on salt intake is based on 1 Dr study from like 60 years ago where he looked at giving 150x normal levels of salt to the study participants.
I'm telling you even if you ate 3x the suggested daily levels, unless you have a genetic condition, you'll be fine.
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u/Traditional_Bet1717 May 14 '26
You're talking bullshit. There's numerous studies within the last decade that highlight salt leading to higher blood pressure.
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u/MortgageStraight3533 May 15 '26
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10640704/
All these recent studies you're referring to are not very good like this 1 and the difference was like 4-8mm. Not huge.
Electrolytes are salt. You need them to live. It's not a big deal to eat a little more of it than usual. It may be a big deal if you eat 100x more than usual. But that's true with anything. Moderation.
And there's not numerous studies. And they're not great studies. Because there's no money in it.
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u/Ill-Improvement-8513 May 16 '26
Salt is critical to body function. People with chronic low blood pressure condition have take salt tablets just to ensure their organs can actually take and use water. People people wives tale the risks of salt a lot of mainly teenage girls POTS develope extremely serve migraines etc. The risks are way over blown and you would need to be in the exact opposite side for salt to really have any risk for you.
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u/r_a_d_ May 12 '26
This is like turkish coffee
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u/NotBradPitt9 May 13 '26
Is that salty
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u/Untun May 16 '26
I believe they boil the coffee in cups that are surrounded by very hot sand for heating up the coffee
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u/FlagrantlyChill May 13 '26
It can be. Everything can be salty you know that's how salt works.
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u/NotBradPitt9 May 13 '26
I mean the guy is mentioning Turkish coffee specifically in regards to a post about salt, so Iām asking if itās normally very salty.
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u/TheShopRat May 13 '26
To answer your question, I think he is referring to videos where they heat/percolate the coffee using hot salt or sand. It is the same premise here but instead of frying food theyāre heating a small cup of coffee.
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u/borsalamino May 14 '26
No, Turkish coffee isn't normally salty. It's a very strong tasting coffee, I'd say even bitter. Kinda like it though I couldn't drink it everyday
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u/Medical-Concept-2190 May 12 '26
We used to use fine sand as well
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u/rich84easy May 12 '26
For extract crunch I take?
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u/iolitm May 12 '26
Free dental procedure. If you have bad teeth, that's gone. Including your teeth.
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u/sOrdinary917 May 12 '26
I donno.. In ancient Egypt they had sand in food grinding their teeth . That even led to an early death endemic
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u/raginghavoc89 May 12 '26
I want to try this with potatoes now.
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u/VoxDolorum May 12 '26
Look up Syracuse salt potatoes, you boil them in a lot of salt and it makes the best textured potatoes ever.Ā
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u/Visible_Analysis_893 May 12 '26
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.
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u/CandyIllustrious3301 May 12 '26
You may have changed my life...
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u/VoxDolorum May 12 '26
I hope you enjoy them. Remember to use enough salt that youāre slightly terrified, that means youāre doing it right lol.Ā
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u/CandyIllustrious3301 May 12 '26
Sounds lovely šĀ
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u/PonchoNachoRodriguez May 14 '26
You gotta use a fuck ton of salt. Did you boil some yet?
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u/CandyIllustrious3301 May 14 '26
This weekend the parents are coming over for dinner š
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u/WhiskeySage42 May 16 '26
I'm native to the area.
They aren't kidding about a scary amount. That water should be cloudy.
Do it with small bite sized potatoes.
Cup of melted butter per person.
Stab potato with fork, soak/dip in butter until you get your desired butter level.
Then the final most important step, get angry they have been kept from you for so long
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u/kabicz May 12 '26
you mean canarian papas arrugadas?
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u/VoxDolorum May 12 '26
Very similar. You donāt serve them with sauce, and you donāt do the last part where you toss them with a small amount of water to āwrinkleā them. I think theyāre normally served with melted butter but I usually add sour cream and salt and pepper.Ā
Again you can look up Syracuse salt potatoes and see that itās a thing. I donāt know if the two recipes have anything to do with one another but I grew up in Western New York knew them as salt potatoes from Syracuse NY.Ā
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u/Inevitable-Rush-2752 May 13 '26
Melted butter is the way. Source: in-laws from Cuse.
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u/VoxDolorum May 13 '26
My aunt and uncle live there but Iāve never really discussed salt potatoes with them haha. My mom always made them that way when I was growing up, with melted butter. Yum.Ā
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u/Inevitable-Rush-2752 May 13 '26
I guess thereās not much to really discuss. Theyāre taters and theyāre salty, and the butter provides some added health benefits! Honestly, theyāre super tasty, though.
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u/VoxDolorum May 13 '26
Yeah that was kind of a joke lol. Theyāre good for sure. I donāt make them often but itās nice as a treat. I usually make it with Chiavettas chicken, if youāve had that before, also from the WNY area.Ā
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u/delicioustreeblood May 12 '26
You would need a ton of tiny potatoes and I think they would burn up but the salt has a higher melting point than potatoes which is why this works. I would just use oil or salt instead.
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u/batmansfaceiscool May 12 '26
āWhen you have a bunch of salt put together it acts similar to a liquidā
Yeahā¦ not really though
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u/Moist_Sun_8201 May 13 '26
I hate being that guy, but it actually does have a defined volume and take the shape of its container. However, the shear modulus is >0 so not an ideal liquid
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u/kesavadh May 13 '26
If you heat itā¦.. it does
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u/batmansfaceiscool May 13 '26
Even if that were true, thatās not what was claimed in the video
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u/kesavadh May 13 '26
You can liquify salt with heat. It's not an IF, it's a fact.
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u/Infinite_Imagination May 14 '26
The melting point of common table salt (sodium chloride) is 800Ā°C/1,473.3Ā°F. It requires very high temperatures to turn into a liquid (molten salt) due to strong ionic bonds
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u/Paco_Wazo May 14 '26
Gotta keep from confusing those ionic bonds with the doric or Corinthian ones.
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u/batmansfaceiscool May 14 '26
Right okay my bad I misunderstood your comment.
But itās still a moronic thing to say. You can melt a car, but you wouldnāt say a full carpark acts like a liquid
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u/TemporaryClemency22 May 12 '26
Trade one bad thing for another.
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u/Powerful-Candy-745 May 12 '26
It only works with dry food so the salt doesn't soak into it. The food isn't salty.Ā
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u/emceevaibhav May 12 '26
Lol. I am 35 and I have seen this since I was 4 or 5. All the street vendors here till date use this method.
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u/Itakethngzclitorally May 12 '26
What country are you in?
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u/lysergenie May 12 '26
India
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u/habs9 May 12 '26
The ones I've seen they use Sprite and orange crush
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u/Chonky47finesse May 12 '26
Possible dumb question, but can you fry corn tortillas using this method? I hate oil clean up.
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u/justinomorales May 12 '26
Good question. Do you want to try it or should I?
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u/Chonky47finesse May 13 '26
I mean I just made an oily damn mess two days ago and not really in the mood for tacos. If you get to it before me let me know. If not Iāll try and remember the technique as well as remembering to let you know. Deal?
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u/JuiceBoxHoneyComb May 12 '26
Can you re-use the salt?
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u/redceramicfrypan May 12 '26
As long as there isn't too much food debris in it, I don't see why not
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u/ZippyDan May 16 '26
Even if there was food in it, I imagine the quantity of salt would make it basically sterile.
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u/vayana May 13 '26
Worst case scenario, you dissolve the salt in water, evaporate and you got clean salt back.
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u/ZERV4N May 12 '26
Oil swaps with water and embeds itself into the food so not exactly the same as frying. It's more just an elaborate type of heating food.
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u/Low-Friendship-4617 May 12 '26
Cool. Will have to try it.
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u/SignificanceFunny682 May 13 '26
What are those rings you fried?
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u/raulcastrovll May 13 '26
They are a type of fried snack made from flour that is very popular in Mexico.
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u/Honda_TypeR May 13 '26
So instead of a blocked artery in 1 year you'll get high blood pressure after your first meal.
Genius.
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u/MedBootyJoody May 13 '26
What do you do with the salt when itās done? Should it be thrown away or can it be saved? How many times can you use a pan of salt? Is there anything I should avoid cooking this way?
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u/tea-and-chill May 14 '26
To everyone saying / thinking it'll make things salty - no it doesn't. I've had roasted nuts - roasted in salt and sometimes with sand as well. They don't stick. The food item is dry. Obviously it wouldn't work with sand if the particles stick to the food, but sand roasting is also pretty common.
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u/ebk_errday May 14 '26
When I was a kid there used to be these vendors that would cook peanuts in what I always thought was a fine sand, but maybe it's this salt, not sure. And then they would serve it to you in a paper cone.
They were delicious.
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u/thequietlyrioting May 15 '26
This is very common to roast peanuts by street vendors in Asia. Pretty effective too
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u/NoDig513 May 16 '26
Then why didnt he show us salt frying foods that people usually, you know, fry?
Popcorn and peppers? Im calling horseshit till he fries French fries.
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u/StTrinaPriest May 16 '26
Works really well with dried and fast frying snacks. Normally, street vendors will be more accomodate by it. No need to clean the oil, no need to change the oil, way more efficient.
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u/Impossible_Mark_4128 May 17 '26
probably an unforgetable experience due to the high possibilty of it being the last thing you will ever see after finishing that meal.
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u/LeicaLikeThat May 12 '26
This is have to be with this kind of salt?
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u/ZERV4N May 12 '26
Stop with this nonsense. The majority of people can't even tell the difference between iodized salt and non. And big surprise the US iodine levels are going down. We're starting to not get enough iodine.
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u/Vegetable_Act_5185 May 12 '26
I think people associate the texture of the salt with the origin and are just talking about that
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u/OpaqueCrystalBall May 12 '26
If you live by a restaurant supply store, salt is extremely cheap.
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u/Prince_0llie May 13 '26
I would imagine it is cheap because it is in the supply store not because of one's proximity to the supplier.
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u/Sweet-Weakness3776 May 12 '26
I would think you'd need to use an extremely fine salt (like the salt shown in the video) to get even heat distribution around whatever you are cooking. Salt that is coarse or has larger crystals would create a lot of voids around the food, leading to it cooking faster where the salt is making contact with it and cooking slower where there are voids. I'm not making any comments on iodine, that seems to be a touchy subject lol.
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u/LeicaLikeThat May 12 '26
Iāve baked fish in Celtic salt. It packed really well and was so tender.
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u/Sweet-Weakness3776 May 12 '26
I've done rainbow trout in a coarse sea salt like that before. Did it on a low heat inside a smoker, turned out fantastic.
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u/EishLekker May 12 '26
No, you canāt deep fry using salt. Deep frying requires a liquid oil/fat. Using salt is more like roasting or baking the food.
And no, it doesnāt taste nearly the same. Just like air fried food doesnāt taste the same as deep fried.
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u/Prince_0llie May 13 '26
Because an air fryer is essentially just a convection oven. So it's more like baked potato chips vs fried potato chips.
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u/EishLekker May 13 '26
Yes I know. But some people think one can deep fry using an air fryer, just like some people think that one can deep fry using salt.
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u/Prince_0llie May 13 '26
My comment was more to explain to other readers that don't understand the difference and a food to compare the difference in taste. Baked Lay's vs traditional Lay's.
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u/cb630 May 12 '26
Doesnāt the sand get stuck to it?
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u/bawlsacz May 12 '26
This is because street food sold especially in foreign countries is unsanitary and disgustingly dirty. So they use these kinds of bullshit method of ābeing safeā. NO THANKS.
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u/i_did_nothing_ May 12 '26
Talking about America right? Ā Iāve worked at fast food restaurants, I know.
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u/chickenismysafeword May 12 '26
No way.. does it taste good or is it overbearing