The Spice Lab

A World of Salt

What can you do with a slab of salt that’s 250 million years old? Lots of incredible things, including cooking, grilling, chilling, and serving. Hand-cut slabs of pink, mineral-rich Himalayan salt have a beautifully marbled appearance that will turn heads at your next get-together. You can chill a brick in the freezer and use it to serve sushi, cold meats and cheeses, or fresh fruit and vegetables. Or, if you heat a salt brick to high temperatures in the oven or on a grill, you can sear seafood, meats, vegetables and other quick-cooking foods on it. It’s a functional cooktop and an artful serving platter in one, while subtly infusing the flavors of natural, pure salt into your food.

The Spice Lab, founded by Brett Cramer, also offers Himalayan salt bowls (great for serving dips), a mortar and pestle for blending herbs and spices, and chalice-style tequila glasses made of solid pink salt. The salt bricks and vessels are harvested from the Himalayan mountain range in Pakistan. Carefully mined, it’s pure, high quality salt that requires no processing or purification.

Brett, who left an Internet career to pursue his passion for salts, also offers gourmet salt collections culled from The Spice Lab’s extensive selection of more than 175 salts. Sourced from around the world, these hard-to-find salts have unique characteristics, and Brett explains how to use each one and find the right variety to pair with different dishes. Are you ready to spice up your next meal?

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• Himalayan Salt Blocks and Vessels: To clean, simply wipe with a damp cloth and store.
  
  • You can also rinse with warm water, using a soft brush to ensure the removal of all food particles.
  • Dry the salt rock thoroughly in a warm oven to prevent further dissolution of the salt and seal it in plastic wrap until your next use.
  • While it will shrink slightly with each use, if treated they will last many years.

• Gourmet Salt Collections:
  
  • Salts are housed in Pyrex test tubes with all-natural cork stoppers
  • The tubes sit in a handmade wooden base made from reclaimed wood.
  • Each Test Tube contains .6 to 1.3 Oz of salt depending on the density
  • Comes with detailed descriptions and suggestions on how to use and pair the salts with various dishes.

• Himalayan Salt Bowl:
  
  • Solid pink salt bowl
  • Can be chilled in the fridge or freezer, used at room temperature and heated in the oven.
  • At any temperature, ideal bowl for serving and seasoning
  • The world's top chefs are using it for serving: sashimi, Kobe beef, poultry, seafood, sliced fruit and vegetables, unsalted butter to name a few

• Himalayan Salt Mortar and Pestle:
  
  • Tool made entirely of solid pink salt for pounding or grinding substances.
  • Great for blending herbs, salts, spices and garlic.

• Himalayan Salt Bricks and Plates:
  
  • Carefully selected to provide use time and time again, whether you are sautéing sea scallops or flank steak or presenting sashimi or Carpaccio and watching the edges delicately salt cure while on the table.
  • Heat it in the oven for 30 Minutes and cook light meats, eggs, or fish right at the table.
  • Put this brick in the Freezer overnight and serve cold appetizers such as cheese, sushi or Carpaccio.

• Himalayan Salt Tequila Glasses :
  • Two chalice style glasses made of solid pink salt

• Gourmet Salt Collection - No. 1 includes:
  
  • 1. Washington State Applewood Cold Smoked Sea Salt
  • 2. Murray River Pink Sea Salt
  • 3. Bali Pyramid Sea Salt
  • 4. Fleur De Sel France First Harvest Sea Salt
  • 5. Island of Cyprus White Flake Sea Salt
  • 6. India Black Kala Namak Mineral Salt
  • 7. Pacific Blue KOSHER Natural Sea Salt
  • 8. El Salvador Qab-nab Taab First Harvest Sea Salt
  • 9. Bolivian Sunset Pink Warm Spring Mineral Salt
  • 10. Hawaiian Red Clay Alaea Sea Salt
  • 11. Bali Coconut and Lime Smoked Sea Salt

• Gourmet Salt Collection – Grilling includes:
  
  • 1. Alderwood Smoked Sea Salt
  • 2. Chardonnay Oak Smoked Fumee de Sel
  • 3. Bali Coconut and Lime Smoked Sea Salt
  • 4. Applewood Smoked Sea Salt
  • 5. Hawaiian Guava Wood Smoked Sea Salt
  • 6. Hickory Smoked Sea Salt
  • 7. Viking Smoked Oak Salt (Coarse) - Denmark
  • 8. Viking Smoked Oak Salt (Flakes) - Denmark
  • 9. Smoked Chipotle Sea Salt – Flavored Sea Salt - USA
  • 10. Premium Smoke Cyprus Flake Finishing Sea Salt - Island of Cyprus
  • 11. Premium Wild Garlic Cyprus Flake Finishing Sea Salt - Island of Cyprus