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Can you substitute kosher salt in place of regular grained salt if a rub calls for just "salt"? Do you need to alter the measurement any if so?
You can substitute salts but you need to be careful of grain size. A cup of fine grain salt can contain as much as twice as much salt as a cup of kosher, I weigh my salts in grams so I can use any kind.
That said, I use canning salt in many rubs and most brines as it dissolves easier than kosher,
Well I found a new rub recipe last night and tried it. It was a new KC style rub. Anyways it had 1 part salt to 4 parts sugar. I used Kosher salt and it was an excellent rub (I thought just a bit better than the kc rub I had been using) yet just a tad salty. You tasted it and got the sweet and then a fairly strong salty aftertaste hit. It wasn't terrible just a tad heavy. So I wondered if it had something to do with the fact I used kosher and the same measurements. I reduced the salt 1 tbsp and I think that will take care of it.
A cup of Kosher has (about) half the weight of regular salt.
Measured by volume it's half.
Measured by weight it's the same.
So you actually put in half the amount in the recipe.