Siamese Traders Gourmet Sea Salt (Fleur de Sel) - An exclusive product of Siamese Traders
While researching Thai sea salt production we stumbled on an incredible treasure! This product has not been offered commercially in a long time, due to the fact that for every 80 pounds of normal sea salt harvested there is only 1 pound of “fleur de sel.” Salt farmers only harvested enough for their own use!
Siamese Traders Fleur de Sel is an all-natural, unrefined, unadulterated sea salt, unlike common table salt…..unlike any salt you've ever tasted. It’s a rare condiment that intensifies food flavors and puts the finishing touch on culinary creations. That’s the simple, delicious truth.
It’s not a simple matter to find this rare salt today. Big commercial salt and chemical interests, buy tons of unrefined sea salt, refine it, and sell off its valuable minerals and trace elements. They inject the depleted remains with an iodine supplement, and then dump it back onto the market as “table salt.” Gourmet cooks deserves better.
Siamese Traders sea salt comes from one of the last artisans to harvest this wonderful product. His harvesting technique is the result of centuries of accumulated wisdom, passed down generation to generation in Thailand, from as early as the mid-13th Century.
Our salt fields lie in the south of Thailand, near the town of Samut Songkram, where the climate is mild and waters of the Gulf of Thailand run clean. These low-lying salt marshes are long and narrow, ideal for traditional salt farming; the paludier (artisan salt farmer) can sweep the sel gris (grey top-most crystals) from the evaporating sea water. On warm, breezy afternoons, usually in January or February when humidity is low, a single day’s production of evaporated salt crust, Fleur de Sel, is harvested from the shallow salt pond. It is the purest part of the saline crust. For every 80 pounds of sel gris, only one pound of fleur de sel is harvested.
For the quality of this salt Siamese Traders has no peer in Asia. Small flaky crystals, a fine texture and a white-to-pink cast, the taste of his fleur de sel is a complex balance of the sea and her minerals. It is the perfect finish to a cooked dish, a zestful compliment to fresh, raw vegetables, cut fruits and salads.
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