Product ID:
#691.8 Salt, Fleur De Sel
Pack Size:
Net Wt: 8oz (227g)
Description:
Fleur De
Sel is an all natural sea salt. This salt is unprocessed, unrefined,
unadulterated and a natural source of potassium, calcium, magnesium, copper and
zinc. Fleur De Sel is unlike any salt you've ever tasted. Often more like a
condiment than a spice, Fleur De Sel highlights food flavors and is never too
salty. Fleur De Sel has been a favored ingredient of French chefs. Gathered by
an artisan paludier (craftsman salt harvester), the harvester can sweep the top
of the evaporating sea water with wooden rakes. The salt is gathered in summer,
basically raked out of the ocean and through a series of canals and reservoirs.
The salt water is trapped, then decanted from reservoir to reservoir and finally
evaporated. Once evaporated the salt is then raked naturally into crystals with
the help of the sun and the wind. Fleur De Sel is the very top layer of salt,
consequently it has the purest flavor and the brightest white color. Sel Gris is
the gray salt found underneath the Fleur De Sel. For every 80 pounds of Sel Gris
harvested, there are three pounds of Fleur De Sel. Consider Fleur De Sel the
condensed and dehydrated sea that is sprinkled into a dish. Unwashed, unrefined,
nothing added.