Gourmet Blended Natural Grey Sea Salt
Cromptons Kitchen Gourmet Blended Natural Grey Sea Salt range is a completely natural collection of hand blended Celtic Grey Sea Salt with herbs and spices, which is used to enhance the flavour of any beef, game, poultry, pork, fish and shellfish, fruit and vegetables.
We use no artificial preservatives or flavourings – Sea Salt is a natural preservative on its own. Every ingredient in Cromptons Kitchen Gourmet Blended Natural Grey Sea Salt can be found in any good herb and spice list.
The herb and spice combinations in these blends have unique effects on foods, and are the result of many years of experimentation and use within John’s professional kitchens. These recipes have been tried and tested with precise quantities of each of the various herbs and spices, which have been chosen with careful thought to their complimentary relationships to each other and the foods with which we suggest they be used. John has always stood by the maxim that "cooking is a marriage of flavours", and his aim has been to reproduce this belief in his blends.
John chose to use this specific Celtic salt from the Guérande on the Atlantic Coast of Brittany in France, due to its superb qualities, culinary and otherwise:-
- It is a completely natural product, harvested by hand, in traditional fashion.
- It retains all of its natural minerals and trace elements, which are essential to health.
- It has large crystals, which deliver a very intense flavour. The taste of Sea Salt depends on where it was harvested. Just as wine is fermented grape juice, no two wines taste the same – this also applies to sea salt!
- It delivers a texture sensation of the crunch on the tongue.
- The crystals absorb the intensity of the flavours of the herb and spice mix, so when used as finishing salts, you really only require a small quantity (much less than you would use of an ordinary table salt), therefore your sodium consumption will be less.
Gourmet cooks, who understand that the quality of their raw ingredients make a huge difference to their finished results, are recognising more and more the quality and flavour intensity of Cromptons Kitchen Gourmet Blended Natural Grey Sea Salt. Why don’t you join those who have already discovered the secret and try one of our blends – simply click here to place your first order – and add an extra dimension to your favourite dishes.
We do not claim that Cromptons Kitchen Gourmet Blended Natural Grey Sea Salts have any health benefits, just that they are completely natural, retaining all that nature gave them – minerals, trace elements and an incredible flavour.
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Kenniford Farm in East Devon are now stocking our salts in their farm shop. They are also an RSPCA Freedom foods approved free range pig farm.
Grants Café Brasserie based in Sidmouth offers the best in local freshly prepared food at an affordable price.
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Tips from the Salt Cellar
Sterlising your Jars
The easiest method for sterilising jars is to fill them with boiling water, let them stand for several minutes, then tip the water out. Do not dry the jars. Fill immediately with hot contents. Use a dry cloth to hold the hot jars.
What is a salt cellar?
A salt cellar is a pot, usually small and made of glass or silver, used on the table for holding (generally, unrefined) salt. Salt cellars were widely used up until the 1940s but, since the introduction of 'table salt', have been gradually replaced by salt shakers.



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