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Salt Blocks

Elevate Your Cooking with a Salt Block from The Salt Box

To learn all about our salt blocks, including how they work, how to use and also how to care for your salt block then click here: About Salt Blocks

If you’re looking to take your cooking to the next level, why not purchase a gourmet salt block from Australia’s The Salt Box. Salt blocks (or salt plates) are used by professional chefs and passionate home cooks alike to bring flavour and intensity to dishes.

You may wish to use your new salt block for:

  • Cooking food: veggies, meats, seafood and even pizzas can be prepared atop a salt block. You might even want to get a BBQ salt block to take your grilling to the next level.
  • Chilling food: after preparing your dishes, you can try chilling foods in the fridge by placing them on a salt plate. This will infuse it with a subtle salty flavour.
  • Curing food: for an experimental touch to your cooking, try using salt blocks to cure meat or fish. This will allow you to create anything from jerky to gravlax!
  • Presenting food: to really get creative in the kitchen, try placing sashimi atop your salt block, using it as a charcuterie board. This will look even more striking if you opt for a pink Himalayan salt block.

Whatever you’ve got in mind, visit The Salt Box for the widest range of salt plates in Australia.

 

Why invest in a salt block? 

Salt blocks are growing in popularity, with more people taking an interest in gourmet food and cooking at home than ever before. Himalayan salt blocks are some of the most popular types of salt blocks in Australia, allowing for a truly unique cooking experience. Not only are they beautiful to look at, but they also boast a number of culinary benefits.

Himalayan salt blocks, and many other types of salt blocks, are extremely resistant to heat. This means heat is evenly distributed throughout the food you are cooking, whether you’re working at a high temperature or low.

 

Salt blocks that are rich in minerals also impart these minerals to your food, offering health benefits along with the fantastic taste.

Worried about your food getting too salty? No stress - salt blocks have a low porosity, meaning they don’t retain much moisture. This ensures it slowly infuses your food with a salty flavour, rather than overpowering it.

Finally, salt blocks are also a naturally antimicrobial surface, ensuring you can serve up food safely with no concern about bacteria.

 

Your one-stop shop for salt

Not wanting to purchase an entire salt block? You may wish to look into our wide range of flavoured salts, black salts, smoked salts and hot & spicy salts. Whether you’re after a dash of Himalayan salt or an entire BBQ salt block, Australia’s The Salt Box is the place to shop!

Salt Blocks FAQs

A Salt Block is a solid piece of Himalayan Pink Salt, harvested from the Himalayan mountains. A salt block can be used on a BBQ or stovetop, or in an oven, to cook foods. Or it can be used cold to cure meats, or as a presentation plate. When you use a salt block, your food will absorb a delicate crust of salt on its surface.

To cook on a salt block it must be heated very slowly, gradually increasing the temperature, until it is very hot (eg 220C). It can then be used to sear meats, seafood or vegetables.

Salt blocks can also be chilled to very low temperatures. They are then a pretty serving plate for cold seafood, sushi, meats or cheeses – adding a slightly salty crust to the food, as well as keeping the food cold.

Foods like gravlax and jerky can also be cured on a salt block

Salt blocks are easy to look after. Once the block is back to room temperature, simply scrub it with warm water (no detergent), dry it with a tea towel, and then leave it to completely air dry. Once completely dry, store in air tight packaging (eg plastic wrap).

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