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I'm trying to come up with ideas for things to do with a lot of extremely salty ginger paste. We bought it online because Scott hadn't been able to find it at Kroger over the previous month. I use it in cooking for myself, and I will sometimes do a lemon ginger drink the recipe for which calls for fresh ginger peeled and minced. As I can't do that, I buy ginger paste which normally works fine.

This bottle, however, is salty beyond what I can handle, and I normally add extra salt to everything. It tastes of salt with a ginger afterburn rather than of ginger.

The label claims that it's 5 mg of sodium per tablespoon, but judging by the taste, it's rather a lot more. My guestimate is that there's at least a quarter teaspoon of salt per tablespoon, just going by taste, and the internet tells me that there are 2300 mg of salt in a teaspoon. Rounding, puts that at about 600 mg in a quarter teaspoon which is vastly more than 5 mg. Even if my guess is way high, there's more salt than the label says.

Possibly the jar was filled with the wrong product. I would buy this as a brined ginger paste. I'm not sure what I'd do with brined ginger paste, but... Somebody must have a use for the stuff.

Anyway, the drink recipe would use up what remains of the ginger paste, but I did a batch with this stuff already, and it was nasty. I could have about 1 part of the stuff to about 19 parts water, and it still tasted briny, just tolerable (for me) levels of briny.


(Using fresh ginger requires someone else to be my hands. No, a blender or food processor will not help. I can't get them out of the cupboard or put them back again, and I can't clean them. I'm unwilling to give up the microwave or the toaster oven or the stand mixer in order to have a blender or food processor permanently within reach. I can't use an immersion blender because vibration hurts my hands.)