Smoked Sea Salt ideas?

[rchlst]

What would you do with smoked sea salt? I'm excited to use it but not sure ho to use it! lol

[ErnieD]

There's an app suggestion that I think I got from here using smoked salt-mix avocado with a little lemon juice until smooth. Spread on a slice of baguette. Sprinkle with smoked salt. Top with radishes, sliced paper thin. Love this! I also like smoked salt sprinkled on ripe tomatoes or cukes, and over bean-based soups right before serving. I have the kind with gigantic flakes, and it adds a nice crunch too. I usually pull out one or two of the huge flakes and just eat them straight while I'm making whatever it is they're meant to go on, too.

[ctl98]

Smoked salt with eggs..soft boiled or poached..yum!

[smtucker]

How to use a smoked sea salt has a lot to do what it was smoked with. Do you know?

[Hank Hanover]

The expensive stuff is baltic alder smoked sea salt. I guess the baltic country residents really know their salt ... or their alder.. or something.

[smtucker]

Oh, there are far more varieties of expensive smoked salt than that! I have been to a shop in France that had 40 different kinds of smoked salt, each one more astonishing than the last. I bought a sample pack and have found that each one pairs well with different foods.

For an alder salt, I love to use this on raw apples, hard boiled eggs and of course salmon.

[iL Divo]

I love specialty sea salts.
I have no idea how to tell you to use them or what to do special with them but their flavor is so good or anything you'd like to add a little extra flavor to.

[Hank Hanover]

How about that black Hawaiian sea salt with added charcoal? Does it taste good?

[iL Divo]

I didn't know it had added charcoal?
Yea, it does. It's on my tongue right now.
It's what I added to the tops of the light vanilla/cocoa butterscotch glazed sea salt added cupcake recipe my friend sent me around Easter.
They were stupendous. On my tongue right now, I can barely make the flavor out as being charcoal. But now that you say it and I read the back of the Trader Joe's Hawaiian Black Sea Salt {want the description of the bag I'm holding for reference?} the ingredients on the back read as follows:
Natural Pacific Sea Salt
Premium Activated Charcoal
Natural Ocean Electrolytes
Trace Minerals and Elements
^^^ Yep I'm using Caps just as it's written...

Want you to know I have the stuff in hand.

Now that it's sat here on my tongue for a few minutes, it is very faint but there.
I also used a few pieces of it [and you know it's pretty small like Kosher salt] on home made brownies with a dusting of powdered sugar over that, soooooo good, not anything like charcoal

[Hank Hanover]

Glad to hear it is just barely discernible. I know I had real concerns about it when I was researching salts. I still haven't gotten around to asking Santa for a sampler pack.

[iL Divo]

I watched a television show maybe 2 years ago about a guy who'd set up his own shop I think in Maine making his own flavored smoked etc sea salts. He had a giant hose, no lie, stuck into the ocean where it drew in water using a pump of some sort to bring the water into a pool type recepticle, it sat so the salt could [?], then he went from there to his mobil home lab where he created his magic. Great show and I really wanted his "sold by mail order" sea salt after watching.

[chefj]

I usually use it as a finishing salt. It pairs well with lots of things, Chocolate, Most Seafood, soft fresh cheeses & anywhere that you use bacon.

[rchlst]

Thanks!! Those are great ideass. It's currently course grain - would you recommend that I grind it down?

[Hank Hanover]

Not sure. Smaller grinds would present more surface area and take on more smoke. That's a good thing, right?

On the other hand, most commercial smoked salt I have seen were at least as big as kosher salt so maybe not get carried away with the grinder but do it prior to smoking.

[chefj]

In general no I wouldn't grind it. But it does depend on application, with chocolate no, but in mash potatoes yes.

[Hank Hanover]

Its obvious application would be on a steak. Another would be as part of a bbq rub. You could smoke most of the ingredients of a rub. Any side dish at a bbq like potato salad. A hamburger patty. I would think salmon would work well.