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dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes
PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 23 3:25 pm    Post subject: salt Reply with quote
    

sel de geurande
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£5.75 per kg
amazon
it looks rough but tis even better than the super white version they make
it is the best cooking or table salt i have ever found

GO FOR THE COARSE VERSION,

it it hygroscopic so needs keeping in an airtight storage jar and in a small use jar

for big tastes or a tiny bit of salt but still plenty of salty flavour it is ace

good for preserving

good value as not much is needed, probably a good thing it does not appeal to the mass market and is made in protected marshes which are rather special

the lack of appeal of the rough version is the look, most of the public want salt to be white with no intrusions and for it to pour rather than pinch or spoon

"salt" is a massive subject for a chemist or cook

as a diner i recon it is complex in a good way, as a cook it works very well, and it helps protect a very special place that it has had a part in creating over a few millennia

it is more complex than most sea salt products, of which nacl which is the major component due to the crystallization methods most use

this stuff has a wide range of salts in it as well as mineral silt traces

the fossil stuff dug up or dissolved out and refined to nacl is very inadequate, most well known sea salts are over purified by process

 
sean
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 23 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It built quite a swanky fortified town too...







 
Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 05, 23 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

There are old saltings in the harbours along the south coast. Some couldn't be resurrected as things stand because of pollution, but they would have produced something similar in the past I suspect. Pity we have gone for the simple option of extraction; I must say I prefer sea salt to ordinary, but am quite content with the 'ordinary' sort.

When we studied trace analysis at college, sea water was one of the items mentioned and it contained a lot of very interesting things apart from sodium chloride. Another was tobacco smoke, which caused the smokers in the class to pause for at least a minute before lighting up during break.

 
gz



Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8952
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
PostPosted: Tue Dec 05, 23 9:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Plenty of saltings in Scotland as well, Ayr and Culross just two examples

 
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