Review of Fleur de Sel Sea Salt from Guerande, Brittany France

Fleur de Sel gives more intensity to salad dressings and is the moist, caviar of salt that is hand raked and mailed to you for your enhanced enjoyment of life itself.

I've used this salt in so often, I've lost track. It is just one of the best ingredients you will find to instantly take your dishes up a notch. You can use it in on meats and vegetables or blended into unsalted butter with fresh rosemary.

I have been told I'm not supposed to be using this salt in any of my cooking, but to use it as a finishing salt. I will agree it is best when sprinkled on food just before serving. Especially on steaks or freshly steamed vegetables.

To use this salt, you may want to invest in a salt grinder or use a mortar and pestle to grind the salt to a finer texture. This salt looks a bit like tiny snowflakes and the flavor fills your entire mouth.

Normal table salt will pale in comparison and almost has a chemical aftertaste in comparison to this highly prized salt. French chefs have known this secret forever and when I found this salt, I told everyone I knew about the flavor.

Want to taste the best caramels ever? Look for Fleur de Sel Caramels. They will not last long.

If you are looking for a French sea salt to cook with, look for Sel Gris de Guérande. There are also many salt blends with herbs and spices. A friend from France sends me batches of salts to try and they are better than anything I've ever found before. There are some similar salts here like French Sea Salt with Herbs - lavender and other herbs blended into salt.

~The Rebecca Review


Product Description
Fleur de Sel is an all-natural sea salt from Guerande in Brittany France. Unprocessed, unrefined, unadulterated. This salt is unlike any you've ever tasted, more like a condiment than a spice, it highlights food flavors and is never too salty, in fact it is almost impossible to overdo it. That is the simple and delicious truth. In Brittany near the town of Guerande are marshes and low lying areas suitable for salt fields. There is a mini climate that is much milder that the rest of Brittany. The currents of the Atlantic run cleaner there than many salt harvesting locations. This confluence of nature makes for an ideal area for a salt farm region. Guerande has no peer in Europe for the quality of salt produced. The salt fields of Guerande are long and narrow so that an artisan paludier (craftsman salt harvester) can sweep the top of the evaporating seawater. On warm breezy afternoons when there is no rain, that single days evaporation of salt crust on top of the salt pond is harvested as the Fleur de Sel. It is the least salty, purest part of the saline. The harvest is usually May to September. The taste of Fleur de Sel is the complex balance of the sea and her minerals with small flaky crystals, a moist texture and slightly grey/pink cast. Add this gourmet finishing salt to your vegetables, sauces, meats and seafood creations. You'll join professional chefs worldwide in singing its praises.

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