Cottage Q&A: Salt for cooking; bird-window collision solutions; extra rental insurance; a grill that won’t light; claiming separate principal residences

JACKIE DAVIS

Q: Your recipes often call for kosher salt. Do I really have to use it?—Jordan Richard, via email A: Well, no. But, as you probably have figured out, recipe developers often prefer it over table salt. So do chefs. “I tell my students not to use table salt,” says Paul McGreevy, a chef and instructor with the Culinary Arts program at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary. Why? “Table salt generally contains more than just salt. It has anti-clumping agents, and sugar, believe it or not.” It also, of course, contains iodine; a diet deficient in iodine is the most common cause of goitres—enlarged thyroid glands. “But I don’t use table salt, and I don’t have any goitres,” says McGreevy. (For the record, you can get iodine from…

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Cottage Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2025

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