Customer Reviews

murray river pink flake sea salt

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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.

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.

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.

I think this is the best finishing salt ever. Melts in your mouth, delicate flakes. I have purchased it for friends and they are thrilled to find a new culinary delight.

We used this salt in the Sydney Seafood School cooking classes when we attended last month and I fell in love. It's lovely and coarse. The flakes are just the right size for "pinching" and the taste when raw is delicious.