For a delicious cooking treat we have recently picked up some salt cooking plates and blocks (also known as bricks) that you may finding very interesting.

Himalayan salt bricks and plates (sometimes also referred to as salt slabs) can be used for sautéing, grilling, chilling, curing and baking.  Not only are these products beautiful to look at they can be chilled or heated from 0°F up to 900°F. Just as it is with the Himalayan Pink Salt, these blocks and plates contain over eighty trace minerals. Even the largest of these blocks only bring a moderate saltiness to your dishes because of the antimicrobial properties.

Our Himalayan Pink Salt Brick is 8” x 4” x 1-1’4” thick. Our Himalayan Pink Round Salt Plate Smooth is 7-1/4” x 1” and our Himalayan Pink Round Salt Plate Rough (also known as natural) is 7-1/2” x 1-1/4”. 

These products are from the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains where there is a 200 mile long vein of this pink salt formed from an ancient sea bed and compressed and dried over millions of years. When mined, these huge blocks often weigh more than 500 pounds and are sliced into cubes, planks and plates.

There are so many ways to use the blocks and plates! You can serve moist foods like mozzarella cheese and sliced apples. You can cook or saute with friends and family at the table scallops, steak, eggs, vegetables, sushi, shrimp, salmon and even Bass. You can think of it like a salt griddle. Or having a fun presentation with everyone involved much like a Fondue presentation. And you can even do a Chocolate Fondue on these blocks and plates.

These blocks and plates can be used directly on a gas range, a barbeque grill, in the oven, on the stove top and best of all, chilled or preheated can be used on the dining room table ( on a wood block and trivet) or on the picnic table. Most instructions say to clean the block or plates by scraping rather than washing as washing removes too much salt.

You can also find more info on How to Cook with Himalayan Salt Bricks and Plates  and also How to Clean Your Salt Bricks and Plates. We also carry other best selling gourmet salts like Pacific Sea Smoked Sea Salt  and find the unique flavor it brings to so many dishes, you won’t want to be without it in your spice pantry. The amazingly white Mediterranean Cyprus Flake, the awesome pink Hawaiian Coarse Table Salt and the South Australian Flake Salt also very unique and each adds an unusual zing to many dishes.