What Is Sea Salt?

Are sea salts just trendy, or truly tasty enough to be able to tell the difference? Sea water is drawn into shallow ponds, then nature takes over. The sun and wind evaporate the water and the salt crystallizes. Sea salt on your tongue is akin to all the wonders of the sea at play on your palette.

Chefs and home cooks love sea salts for cooking, grilling, steaming, roasting or finishing a dish.

They’re sensational as a shimmery dessert topping. Some sea salts impart a briny freshness, others even add a hint of sweetness. With every sprinkle, all sea salts deliver that crunchy one-of-a-kind flavour burst.

Fine Sea Salt: This exceptionally pure salt is as essential to gourmet cooking as freshly ground peppercorns. Ideal for seasoning meat, poultry and fish cooked by any method. Use this salt everywhere you would use table salt.

Coarse Sea Salt: These crunchy large-grain crystals deliver a biting salty flavour. Superb for adding texture, roasting and as a meat rub or salt crust. Also ideal for topping desserts and for adding a salty rim on a cocktail glass.

Extra Coarse Sea Salt: To enjoy fresh flavour, grind extra coarse sea salt on all recipes calling for fine sea salt.

Fleur de Sel: Harvested by hand from the sea’s surface in the south of France, this finishing salt delicately intensifies flavours and textures. Sprinkle it on salads, bread dipped in olive oil, a ripe avocado, or on a sliver of dark chocolate or caramel.