Pure sodium you say? that will surely give your dishes an extra kick
The government doesn’t want you to know that you can pair that with a nice glass of pure chloride
Less sodium means more chloride for me!
“Pure sodium”
OP is as deranged as Morton.
Being somebody who has to watch their sodium intake due to heart health concerns I would say that Morton is not at all deranged in creating this especially considering I’ve got a container of it sitting on my spice rack right now.
Though it should be noted I do my best not to think about the fact that KCL is used in lethal injections. 😒 I just thank the gods I don’t have any ulcers.
Potassium is totally normal and required by the body. It’s actually hard to get the RDA of potassium.
It’s just that too much stops your heart.
It’s more the pure sodium part. Stop, drop, and roll would be a lot more important if it was pure sodium.
Yes LoL, I referenced that in a joke further down the post. 💥😂
“Morton”
The ‘t’ is silent
Not at all the statement of a moron: in colloquial usage yeah, salt is sodium chloride, but in in a chemistry setting it is not just sodium chloride. In this case it probably has potassium chloride — a sodium-free salt.
I don’t understand this post. Salt doesn’t mean sodium. NaCl and KCl are both salts, and this is a 50/50 blend with less sodium (Na) for the people who need/want that. Am I missing something?
I think you’re exactly right
Sir that’s too many facts for this joke.
Right. I have difficulty suspending disbelief so sometimes jokes like this just confuse me.
I get that too sometimes.
No, no let’m cook. Everyone knows jokes are funnier after you explain them.
The point is that there is no joke in here to begin with
Could also be amphetamine salts.
Now we’re cooking!
So much worse for people with Potasium limitations? Like dialysis patients.
They could just get the normal salt, or no salt at all.
Yes, usually such people are advised by their doctors to avoid such ingredients.
The part you’re missing is that potassium chloride used to be used in the lethal injection. Somehow it still has a lower LD50 than sodium chloride.
I would be surprised if water isn’t used in lethal injections.
How was that alluded to in the OP? Eating it isn’t the same as injecting it. It’s a normal ingredient in electrolyte drinks and rehydration salts. It’s also prescribed for hypokalemia.
Also yes hyperkalemia is really effective at killing as is hypernatremia. This is not only known but also evolved around. Your body works pretty hard to ensure you don’t ingest so much of either ion that you develop these conditions.
Well, let’s hope the doctor doesn’t prescribe enough, that their hypokalemia develops into hyperkalemia.
you’re not missing anything, you paid attention in chemistry.
Oh thanks. My mom buys that and I never understood what is was 😂
What you’re missing is illiteracy.
50% table salt
50% bath salt
Kinda embarrassing for the original poster on Twitter
The container is only half full.
Or is it half empty?
It’s twice as large as is necessary to contain this volume of product.
They have to put air in it so your salt isn’t crushed during shipping.
Bought salt flakes, received salt powder.
Sodium (Na): 25%
Chlorine (Cl): 25%
Nitrogen (N₂): 39%
Oxygen (O₂): 10.5%
Argon and other trace gases: 0.5%
It’s half empty and half full, at the same time, in some quantum overlapped state. The actual state, either half empty or half full, collapses as soon as it’s open.
So… is it just half full? Or is just it mostly chloride? 🤔
Potassium chloride is the other half. I mean, sure, if you need to limit your sodium intake, this is one way to do it, but maybe just put less salt in your food?
Does potassium chloride have a salty flavor, or is this product actually less salty tasting?
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJh9yTIBY48 for potassium chloride as well as the other alkaline metals.
could be rock salt too, ie mix with other minerals
i’ve seen salt with high fructose corn syrup added to it… so technically less salt?
That is one product I would expect in an American supermarket. …
is the sodium interchanged with sugar? i would be dissapointed if not, its the least they can do
It’s salt. It’s 100% salt. Half of it is sodium chloride and, to keep the label honest, the other half is potassium chloride.
i know. so potassium chloride only
50% less salt. They fill up half the can and sell it to you for the same price?
Would be cool to find out it’s 50% sodium chloride and 50% chloride.
Open the box to eternal peace.
ITT: people not getting the joke.
It’s a really stupid joke.
“No you don’t get it. First, just pretend you think salt is 100% sodium”
I don’t need to pretend
Sodium is not a salt.
You’re happy just being wrong? Alright then.
It’s not a good joke
Yeah but it says right on the front that it’s half potassium chloride and half sodium chloride.
Well I’m glad they used KCl, I thought this was going to be a container half-full of chlorine–concerning, if you intend to put it on your food.
Half the sodium, double the chloride! Perfection 👌
Quadruple the reactivity!
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(I am not a chemist, and I am not your chemist. These statements should not be construed as chemistry advice.)
I can have my own chemist? I can keep them?
We have chemist at home
Chemist at home:
Should have posted this one
I mean technically… At least half of the elemental construction of both of those ingredients is chlorine… So… Technically it is.
By weight or by molarity?
Chloride, not chlorine
Chloride is the ionic form
Right, and that’s the form it’s in in both NaCl and KCl
Correct and that was the supposed joke. Instead of chloride, the anion, which would occur in some form of a salt, the container would contain half NaCl and the other half just chlorine gas, Cl2. Thereby making the statement (50% less sodium) technically true. (Disregard the pressure you would need to put the same molar amount of gas into the volume of a solid)
I’m proud to report that my chemistry is just barely good enough to follow this comment. 😂
I think they meant chlorine, as in Cl2 (g). Certainly not edible, thus the joke.
It’d be funnier if the package was just half empty
Let me introduce you to the rapid ramen cooker, a microwaveable tray that claims to make ramen with only half the regular amount of sodium.
You know how the cooker enables this?
You add half the flavor packet.
Can’t make this shit up.
😂 absolute gold
I’ve always done this then, use the leftover flavor pack (salt) for seasoning a more homemade meal.
I have so many leftover packets because I always make mine with better than bullion, hoisin sauce, and chili flakes.
I moved to Germany and the only products I’ve requested from visitors are better than bouillon and molasses.
Better than bullion ftw.
Soooo good!
Nothing better than selling a single-purpose bit of plastic intended to go into the microwave and boil water that is functionally a replacement for a bowl that you presumably already have that expressly states that you can only use it for up to 5 years.
It’d be illegal as as those statements are regulated to a standard serving. Except for net product amount.
Does it still work against demons and spirits?
Yes but you have to use twice as much.
Unless you just want the 9 salt pictures
This demon is trying to trick you into spending twice as much on summoning salt because they have stock in the company!
Also it won’t work and demons will eat your ass in a non-consensual way, salt is used as a symbol of purity and the additives/mixture by definition make it non-pure (salt).
No, the question really is whether potassium chloride by itself would work, also being pure (potassium) salt.
Yep! Any kind of powder will work. Salt, sugar, cocaine, whatever.
Imagine getting murdered by faeries because you used low-salt salt like an idiot.
As stated right there on the label, some of the NaCl has been replaced with
taster’s choiceKCl. So it was never pure sodium to begin with, due to all that pesky chlorine and now about half of the Na has been replaced with Potassium.I tried adding pure sodium to some soup once. It did not end well. 💣💥😬
It’s not the best choice, it’s Spacer’s Choice!
Imagine making pasta and salting the water with pure sodium. There’s a reason they don’t sell that in the supermarket.
Don’t tell me what I can and cannot do! I like my pasta with a little danger and a dash of kaboom!
Big badaboom!
That’s how you become a meat popsicle.
ba-da-boom
Multi-pass
Fyi it’s chloride, not chlorine, but otherwise spot on
So uh, what do you think the Cl in NaCl stands for?
I had to read this like 24 times to make sure I didn’t miss anything, but I’m 98% certain you’re correct. When referring to the individual components it should be chlorine not chloride. I’m not a chemical doctor, but this is my understanding.
Horrible at chemistry, but I’m 98% sure it is chloride - the chlorine is present as an anion, and as such is called chloride. Even if you refer to it as an individual component, you still observe Cl-, not Cl (or rather Cl2).
No, the element is chlorine. Chloride denotes a compound or molecule containing a chlorine ion, or a compound with a non-charged chlorine atom bonded.
This whole thread is very pedantic but in chemistry when someone refers to chlorine, they are usually referring to Cl2. I think in IUPAC naming chloride is reserved for for ions. Like dichloromethane (IUPAC) and methylene chloride (also common name).
I have a phd in chemistry. You are correct. The whole thread is pedantic garbage.
Now I am confused. Mind bearing with me for a sec?
I was referring to the chlorine present in NaCl, that should in fact be chloride due to it’s anionic nature, should it not? I mean sure it’s pedantic, but I’d still like to know where I went wrong with that thought :D .