Swim cant find non - iodated rock salt - only iodated is available - what is this world comming to ?
can it be used for rue extraction ?
what badness with the iodine bring ?
thanks - i was gona ask in a harmala thread but they are slow moving and swim was hoping to get this done today - he purchased the iodated stuff.

can't you find kosher salt?

I'm surpised you can't find rock salt actually. The stuff's pretty common.

I've heard the additives make things a little dirty.

SWIM has used common cooking salt (no rock salt) in Manske without a single problem.

Rock salt can be found (if not in common supermarkets) in health stores/organic shops etc etc.

well if iodine is in table salt, then it means in the quantities found it is food safe... plus in terms of quantities, its so little that I doubt it would make much of a difference to final product..

buuuuut... what about the iodine chemistry? how reactive is it in the form found in table salt under different conditions, such as in a strongly basic or acidic solution?

Fair point. Even though iodine presence in table salt is in traces and sea salt also has traces of iodine and even though iodine is good to eat there is always the possibility that its presence may somehow interfere with something during the extraction to produce some obnoxious toxic compound.

But I think the latter is very highly unlikely. People cook with salt (even salt traced with iodine) for years and years and they have also been cooking on acidic and/or basic pH ranges with this salt. There has to be something very exceptional within a non-standard "diet" (as syrian rue is for instance) so as to react with iodine and produce something really bad for human consumption.