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Sea salt is salt that is produced by the evaporation of seawater. It is used as a seasoning in foods, cooking, cosmetics and for preserving food.
It is also called bay salt, solar salt, or simply salt. Like mined rock salt, production of sea salt has been dated to prehistoric times.
Where To Buy Sea Salt In South Africa
Sea Salt
Address: Unit E 20, Prime Park, Mocke Rd, Diep River, Cape Town, South Africa
Hours: Closes soon ⋅ 4:30PM ⋅ Opens 8:30AM Thu
Phone: +27 21 706 3790
Bulk Epsom Salts
Address: 101 Vorster Ave, Glenanda, Johannesburg, 2091, South Africa
Hours: Closed ⋅ Opens 9AM Thu
Phone: +27 76 080 0492
Funky Ouma
Address: Unit 4C Lady Blake Business Park, Lady Loch Rd, Wellington, 7655, South Africa
Hours: Closed ⋅ Opens 8AM Thu
Phone: +27 21 110 0122.
How much does a sea salt cost?
Cost: About 8 to 10 cents per ounce. It’s easy to find sea salt at the grocery store in 26-ounce canisters similar to iodized salt or in smaller grinders.
“Fleur de Sel” is perhaps the most revered high-quality sea salt, but it’ll cost you about $3 per ounce. It’s typically used as a finishing salt.
Why is sea salt expensive?
Sea salt is generally more expensive than table salt because of how it’s harvested. “Fleur de sel” (French for “flower of salt”), for example, is scraped by hand from the surface of evaporation ponds.
Can I use sea salt for cooking?
Cooking with sea salts red salt, gray salt, black salt or fleur de seli s a great way to give recipes added texture and flavor over table salt.
Sea salt is a great ingredient to sprinkle on top of dishes as a way to give recipes added color, flavor and crunch.
Does sea salt help infections?
Sea salt is a natural antiseptic and anti inflammatory that for thousands of years has been used in wound cleansing.
Remember the expression, “throwing salt on a wound?” That’s because that’s what people actually did to clean out infected cuts, and scraps.