Obtained from: Martha Stewart Living Website

500 ml Listerine bottle is also priced at $4.49

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Q. What is the difference between Grade AA and Grade A?

Grade AA eggs have an air cell that measures less than 1/8 of an inch. The shells mustbe smooth and oval. Grade A eggs have air cell up to 3/16”. Jumbo’s are never AA.

Grade AAThis is the highest quality possible. Because of their quality, grade AA eggs can be used for any purpose, but are especially useful for cooking methods in which the egg is cooked in the shell. Grade AThe quality is slightly less than that of a grade AA, but most consumers wouldn't notice the difference. The air cell is slightly larger, the proportion of thick to thin albumen is not as great, and the contents may spread out a bit more once the egg is cracked open. A and AA are the grades that consumers will find in food stores.

Types of SaltIt seems that there are so many different types of salts these days to choose from. You might have thought that salt is just salt, but nothing

could be further from the truth! Here is a basic guide to the different types of salt.

• Table Salt and Iodized Table Salt• This is the type of salt that most of us use at home and the type that we find on most restaurant tables. Our basic table salt is made by

sending water into salt deposits then evaporating it – only the salt crystals will remain. The salt goes through a refining process that removes the other minerals from it. Table salt has a fine grain texture which makes it ideal for baking – it can accurately be measured. Iodine is not naturally in table salt – Morton Salt Company started adding it back in 1924 to decrease the chance of goiters. The majority of table salt is iodized in the United States these days, and, indeed, the occurrence of goiters has gone down greatly!

• Kosher Salt• Kosher salt is made in a similar fashion to table salt – the difference is that kosher salt is raked during the evaporation process. This type

of coarse salt is generally evaporated from brine. This creates grains with a block-structure, this structure better allows the salt crystals to absorb blood (Jewish law states that you must extract blood from meat before you consume it). Kosher salt is less salty than table salt.

• Sea Salt• Sea salt is harvested by evaporation, also. Sea salt is not quite as salty as table salt is. You can find both fine grain and coarse grain sea

salt. Many sea salts include trace minerals like potassium, magnesium, and iodine – these minerals are naturally present, not added.• Fleur De Sel This is a type of sea salt – to harvest fleur de sel, you must take the early crystals that start to form across the surface of salt evaporation

ponds – this is generally done during the summer months, the time when the sun is strongest. Fleur de sels have a higher mineral content than basic table salt. Fleur de sels can smell like the ocean, and it tends to be grayish in color. Other types of sea salts include sel gris, esprit du sel, and pink, black, and brown sea salts from India.

• Rock Salt As its name implies, rock salt is not fine-grained. In fact, rock salt is unrefined and therefore has a grayish hue. It is sold in large crystals.

This is what people use to make ice cream in traditional hand-cranked ice cream makers.

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Wegmans Iodized salt 26 0.5 Morton Iodized salt 26 0.69 38.0Sugar while granulated 5 2.39 Domino 5 2.99 25.1Brown Sugar 2 1.49 Domino 2 1.79 20.1Canola Oil 32 1.99 Crisco 32 2.99 50.3Canola Oil 128 6.49 Crisco 128 8.99 38.5Canola Oil Spray 6 1.99 Spectrum 6 5.49 175.9Low Fat Plain Yogurt 6 0.4 Dannon Non fat Plain Yogurt 6 0.55 37.5Mouthwash 500 1.69 Scope Mouthwash 500 3.49 106.5Mouthwash 1000 1.99 Scope Mouthwash 500 3.49 250.8Mouthwash 500 1.69 Listerine 500 4.49 165.7Mouthwash 1000 1.99 Listerine 1000 4.49 125.6Milk 1 2.85 No competitorChopped Spinach 10 0.99 Birds Eye Chopped Spinach 10 1.29 30.3