Smoked Salt Set - 2oz Jars

The Meadow Set illustrates the fundamentals of finishing salt in practical as well as playful use, and includes six of the finest salts available anywhere, chosen for their supremely refined flavor, versatility, and high standards of production. We'll wrap up your salt set in a beautiful flip-top basket and ribbon for $8.00 more.

The Meadow Smoked Set includes:

• Halen Môn: From the pure ocean currents of the Welsh coast, Halen Môn finishing salt has a large and immensely complex gemstone structure, making for extraordinary texture in the mouth and exceptional deftness, coaxing every nuance from virtually any dish it finds. When an ancient landmark oak tree fell on the premises of the company that makes the salt, they turned the upsetting moment around and celebrated with this oak-smoked variation of their excellent salt.

• Sugar Maple: Produced only in very limited quantities, this sea salt is created from a labor-intensive solar evaporation technique developed and perfected by our passionate salt maker on the Maine coast. Sea salt is introduced into green houses where it is warmed and evaporated by the Atlantic sun. Temperature and smoking time are carefully controlled in a process that took our saltmaker years to perfect.

• Atlantic Mesquite: This sea salt is produced by labor-intensive solar evaporation technique developed and perfected by our passionate salt maker on the Maine coast. Seawater is introduced into green houses where it is warmed and evaporated by the Atlantic sun. The seawater is then moved to pans where salt crystals are allowed to precipitate out. The resulting salt crystals--warm, balanced, and naturally rich in trace mineral--are painstakingly hand-smoked over mesquite.

• Barrique Chardonnay: To make this oak-smoked sea salt from France, Fleur de Sel produced by ancient Celtic methods from France's Atlantic shore on the Brittany coast is harvested and dried in the open air. The Fleur de Sel, which has long been held as the most-esteemed salt of European fine dining, is then cold smoked with oak chips made from French Oak wine casks (called barrique) that have completed their five to seven year task of aging fine Chardonnay.

• Red Alder: This is one of the more aggressive smoked salts, yet produces an amazingly pleasant fragrance when ground over salads, be they lettuces, kelp, or fruit with nuts. Left unground, it is rich and solid enough to marry with beef, game, poultry, and fish. Red Alder Smoked salt also lends itself to pastas or other dishes with cream sauces.

• Kauai Guava Smoked: A beautiful Hawaiian smoked salt that is dried by the sun and hand-harvested, then lovingly smoked slow and low over Kauai's native guava wood.