With a grain of salt: Morton's Salt Guide

There are plenty of sites that list the different types of gourmet salts, showing everything from Hawaiian Sea Salt to Fleur De Sel. However, there aren't many that do a decent job of indexing salt types by use. Therefore, I thought I'd spend my first post giving props to the Salt Guide on the Morton Salt website.

Morton's Salt Guide may not list all the fancy varieties of culinary salt, but they do point out which salt is ideal for the rim of margarita glasses vs. popcorn seasoning. Their guide consists of 3 nicely organized tables:

• one table that highlights the characteristics of their salts
  
• one table that indicates the various uses for different salt types
• and a bonus conversion table for culinary substitutions

While it would have been nice to find a guide with more variety, or links from the usage table to their recipes... Morton's Salt Guide is overall clean, concise, and straightforward.

Miss Rules gives Morton's Salt Guide an A-.

On a side note, Morton's Salt is responsible for the widespread idiom: "When it rains, it pours." According to Wikipedia:

"The company's logo (from 1914), and its motto, "When it rains, it pours" (from 1911), were developed to illustrate the point that Morton Salt was free flowing, even in rainy weather. Originally, the company had added magnesium carbonate as an absorbing agent to ensure that its table salt poured freely; calcium silicate is now used instead for the same purpose."

The original English idiom is: "It never rains, but it pours."