Why I’m going to start buying iodized salt

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So, I have a new fave YouTube food and cooking show that features a man named Adam Ragusea who is apparently a Big Deal on the internet. Not all of his videos are in the multiple-millions category, but quite a few of them are, and I’d say that his fame and fortune are richly deserved. I’m featuring his episode on iodine and the decline in use of iodized salt in this post, but let me say that I got acquainted with him via YouTube’s algorithm that has videos pop up on the sidebar according to what you’re watching at the time. I was researching bagel recipes, and he has one, so that one came up. In the course of that video he addressed an issue that bugs me every time I run into it: this idea that you’re supposed to measure your flour by the gram for yeasted-dough baking. That is such nonsense, and there he was, singing my exact same song about that ridiculous idea. But I’ll get to that in another post.

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