COOKING SALTS

table, kosher, sea and flake: the sodium in the very same spoon — per the makers’ labels, drawn to true scale

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

Formats: A4 · A3 · A2
What you get: Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject: food · everyone · comparison · kitchen

Grams and milligrams are verbatim from the makers’ nutrition facts (Morton, Diamond Crystal, Maldon), per ¼ teaspoon serving. The daily limit is under 2,300 mg of sodium, “about 1 teaspoon of table salt” — FDA, “Sodium in Your Diet”. Sodium is 39 % of sodium chloride by weight. Checked 2026-08-13.

“KOSHER” IS NOT ONE SALT

“Kosher salt” is not one salt: a box of Morton gives 480 mg of sodium per spoon, a box of Diamond Crystal — 280, which is 1.7 times less. That is exactly why American recipes name the brand next to the word kosher.

And the name has nothing to do with the salt itself being kosher: the large crystals are used to kosher meat by drawing out the blood — it is koshering salt.

On the sheet

Grams and milligrams are verbatim from the makers’ nutrition facts (Morton, Diamond Crystal, Maldon), per ¼ teaspoon serving. The daily limit is under 2,300 mg of sodium, “about 1 teaspoon of table salt” — FDA, “Sodium in Your Diet”. Sodium is 39 % of sodium chloride by weight. Checked 2026-08-13.
Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 8 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

COOKING SALTS

“KOSHER” IS NOT ONE SALT

On the sheet

Printing

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