MALDON SALT

Maldon Salt, a sea salt of English descent. It is found in the form of large salt flakes, thin, nonuniform, crunchy, which have a very clean taste, pure salt.

It is intended to be used as table salt, used in small quantities when dining and less for cooking. You may be tempted to want to put it in a salt grinder, but the Maldon salt is ideal to be used as it is. Put the Maldon salt in a small plate on the table and let the guests serve directly from there.

Some people tend to believe that if you use Maldon salt you will use less salt because the flakes are big and the amount of salt you put on food seems more.

The clean taste of Maldon salt is very suitable. It contains no additives or preservatives, not even anti-caking agents.

The salt Maldon is produced in Essex, England in the town of Maldon, known by the locals as Maldon on the Mud.

To produce Maldon salt sea water is taken from the estuary. During periods of heavy rains during which the estuaries are more filled with freshwater seawater is harder to collect the barges having to advance more to bring salt water to the shore. This explains why periodic Maldon salt is found to be heavier in stores.

The dry weather is good because the salt water content in the estuary is higher. The water is filtered and then placed in large pans the size of baths. The pans are heated until the water starts boiling and then the heat is reduced. Maldon salt crystals form and fall on the bottom of the pans.

After about 16 hours the Maldon salt crystals will float to the water surface at which time the heating is stopped. The pans let it cooled overnight and the morning the Maldon salt is gathered from the surface. The salt leaves to dry for 2 days and then it is dry in furnaces.

Although production has been raised since the Roman weather and even from the Victorian period, the company is still quite “relaxed” in terms of profit. The company remains a small family business.

Maldon salt is sold in cartons of 125 g and 250 g, and buckets of 1.5 kg. The 1.5 kg buckets are added relatively recently to the product range.

The Maldon salt is never sold in bulk, always in boxes. However, the company produces 600 – 700 tons of salt per year, with 11 employees (from 2005), 70 of their work being exported.

A box of Maldon salt will arrive very long and the price is better compared to the French sea salt.