Can regular salt be substituted for "sea salt"?

[wackyaunt]

I found a recipe for homemade poptarts...it calls for "sea salt" do you folks think I can substitute regular salt?

[Opti]

Yes. Definitely check the taste when making the recipe. The advantage of at least some sea salts is that they taste saltier than regular iodized salt so you can use less.

[wackyaunt]

Thanks Optimist! Karma to you!

[Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ]

Sea Salts, and there are dozens, even 100s of varieties contain various minerals that affect the taste and palate sensation.
Regular, pedestrian sea salt typically has large crystals. I have a container of regular sea salt and use it occasionally in green salads. Provides an unexpected salty taste.

[Small Biz Owner]

Sea salt has always tasted too salty for me. Maybe I am just not using the correct variety of sea salt.

[weltschmerz]

I found sea salt to taste LESS salty than regular salt. But yes, you can substitute regular salt. Nutritionally, it's pretty much identical.

There are no health benefits associated with sea salt. It’s a personal choice in terms of texture and taste. Some recipes call for sea salt or kosher salt. It’s all the same no matter what you call it. It’s still best to keep the salt shaker off the table!
www.littlestomaks.com/2010/08/ask-the-expert-sea-salt-vs-regular-salt/

[verrip1]

The volume of salt needed for any recipe partly depends on the type of salt crystals. America's Test Kitchen has long advised people that it requires twice the volume of Kosher salt to achieve the same saltiness as table salt. With some of the much larger crystal sizes of some sea salts, that discrepancy becomes wider, though that effect may be counterbalanced by the mineral differences already talked about.

For applications at the table, everybody can add to taste. But if it is something that needs to be present in roughly accurate amounts before cooking (like in doughs to be risen with baking powder), it's probably safest to measure it from plain old table salt unless the recipe specifies something different.

[NoNamePerson]

There is "fine" sea salt and "coarse" sea salt. Just as there is with Kosher salt. That could also make the difference in how a baked good taste.

[lisaflex]

we only use sea or kosher salt here.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

What do you need the salt for? If it is for sprinkling on the top I'd really advice against substituting and just skip it because using the same amount of table salt which has a finer grain is going to ruin it.

If it is for baking I've found I can use them interchangably.