Coarse Cooking Salt

What's the difference between Coarse Cooking Salt and Coarse Sea Salt?

There is a recipe that requires coarse cooking salt and I cannot get it in any supermarkets!!

Cheers

Paul

But the recipe is asking for coarse Salt not your bog standard salt...

Agree with mumofstig.  It's the same as comparing bog standard saxa table salt with fine sea salt.  Same product, different flavour, the latter being much superior.

Maybe cooking salt is rock salt rather than sea salt?

I use Maldon sea salt. What are you using it for?

Last time I looked you would need a mortgage to buy it.

Cooking salt/sea salt is unadulterated, table salt has something added to stop it from getting damp and ending up in a lump.  I agree that cooking salt seems saltier than sea salt.

Basically, cooking salt is a coarser salt with all the minerals left in and no iodine is added as you get in table salt. Cooking salt, due to less processing, is also cheaper and saltier, and with no added iodine, preferable for cooking or pickling. It also comes under the names of kosher salt and pickling salt.