Clair Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 [quote user="confused of chalus"]I've often wondered what the French cook uses pricey greyish grains of salt for? Sel de Mer, often from specific coastal areas, take up a fair amount of shelf space in the supermarket, and now I notice it featured on the christmas specialities page of the supermarket leaflet. What is it used for?Kathy[/quote]I came across this blog post and remembered the thread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Just making some veg soup and chucked in some gros sel de L'île de Noirmoutier containing spices and herbs and I can't now think what I paid for it. But it gives some pretty black specks to the soup and I hope it will improve the taste! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Are those black bits dead sea fleas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 [quote user="sweet 17"]Just making some veg soup and chucked in some gros sel de L'île de Noirmoutier containing spices and herbs and I can't now think what I paid for it. But it gives some pretty black specks to the soup and I hope it will improve the taste![/quote]Use it as a finishing touch, not as cooking salt.It's meant to enhance the food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 But, Clair, what dish can it be the finishing touch to? The grains are really "gros"?Soup was fab and, Wooly, I told OH the black specks were chopped up dead flies because I wouldn't want him to be concerned about eating them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Does more expensive salt trap more expensive chickens? If so, first tell Tiger Woods that he can do a lot better than the stream of old slappers he has been pleasuring, then gimme gimme gimme gimme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buelligan Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Well...I've learnt something tonight! I'd always thought that the collective noun for a group of slappers was a "skank"! Thank you WoolyB![:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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