murray river pink flake sea salt

by faerie's finest

Product Features

• delicate flakes dissovle quickly on food
• finishing salt well suited for beef, duck and venison and other game meats
• Perfect as a finishing touch for a deliciously grilled steak.
• Delicious with game meats such as venison or duck.
• Order more than $25 and shipping is FREE !!!!!

Product Description

Size: 1.0 lb bag

If you haven't guessed it by now, faerie loves pink.  Imagine her excitment when she heard there were pink sea salts.  Her first thought seeing the delicate crystals of murray river pink salt was that it looked like pale pink snowflakes.

The Murray River is the largest river in Australia.  It empties into the Murray Darling Basin where low rainfall leads to a high concentration of salinity.  This high saline water is fed into ponds where the arid climate of northwest Victoria causes rapid evaporation.  The pale pink color comes from carotene secreted by salt tolerant algae.

The light, flaky pyramid shaped crystals of murray river pink salt make an excellent finishing salt.  The delicate flakes melt quickly and evenly and 'sticks' to the food.  It has a light flavor and is perfect for salads.

Variations in mineral content and harvesting methods create the unique look and taste of individual sea salts.  Differences in flavor are subtle yet delicious.  To get the most out of sea salts, add them after cooking and do not use sea salts on highly seasoned foods.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000FTS87I
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,480 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite finishing salt, January 7, 2010

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A. Christensen "Sushi Tsu" (Northern California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: murray river pink flake sea salt - 3.8 oz (Misc.)

The texture and flavor are unique. I was a guest on a local culinary radio show where this salt was one of the things that I brought the host to taste and she described it "Like pop rocks" it's there and then its gone.

5.0 out of 5 stars Really flakey!, January 29, 2012

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flower girl - See all my reviews

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This review is from: murray river pink flake sea salt - 7.5 oz (Misc.)

I love this salt! This is the 3rd time I've purchased it. It is in a flake form,which is great, as it doesn't need to be ground up to enjoy. It has a nice crunch to it, but not as crunchy as the chunkier salts. It's very light on the tongue, and a great addition to a salt collection.

5.0 out of 5 stars This salt will change your life, January 18, 2012

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The Man Behind the Curtain - See all my reviews

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This review is from: murray river pink flake sea salt - 1.0 lb (Misc.)

Those searching high and low for salt that will change their life can end their journey with Murray River Sea Salt.

I first stumbled on this salt at a local outlet of a cultlike nationwide chain store that pretends to sell only the highest quality foods but also happily lends its imprimatur to made-in-China foods that sometimes turn out to be tainted. But, ignoring other controversies associated with that store, one day a package of this salt sold by that store stirred my interest which led to the salt completing the last step of its long and probably ecologically-unsound trip from Australia to my kitchen.

Here's the thing about Murray River salt: Its pinkish flakes are fragile and crumble easily in your fingers. It also seems to dissolve almost immediately on contact with food. This is in sharp contrast to every other salt I've tried. We currently have 6 or 8 other kinds of coarse-crystal salt in the house. None of them can be crushed in your fingers. They remain large, hard chunks of salt. Yes, they represent other flavors than the Murray River salt, but there is something gentle and friendly about this salt. I have a totally-unsubstantiated theory that this salt is better for your body than the hardened crystals of other salts.

Our household keeps Murray River salt in a salt cellar (in our case a small lidded wooden bowl) from which it is pinched with the fingers (instead of using the traditional tiny spoon) and crumbled directly onto food on the plate. For sanitary reasons, only a small amount of the salt at a time is put in the bowl. That way the bowl gets cleaned frequently. Frequent cleaning seems like a necessity when fingers, even washed ones, are the tools of choice for dispensing the salt. Words to the wise: If you invite nose-pickers to your table, provide a salt shaker and hide the Murray River stuff till they've left. If you have small children in your home, wait until they are grown and are draining your bank account at the safe distance of some far-off college before purchasing and placing this salt on your table.

Another reviewer mentioned that they use this as a finishing salt. Our household concurs. We rarely if ever add this salt to anything in the cooking process. We keep Kosher salt and a couple of sea salts for most larger-salt-use cooking needs, like baking (which frankly seems like the only time one should add much salt to the cooking process). But this is the good stuff for your table and the food you serve on it.

The chain store mentioned above no longer carries this salt so Amazon is the logical alternative.

Note that I purchased a 1lb bag, which keeps well because I live in a desert. But next time I'll probably purchase a multi-pack of the smallest bags for a small amount more per unit weight in exchange for the convenience of having smaller packages.

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