Katy gave me the greatest toy for my birthday and I've been playing with it for awhile now and can recommend it to others. It is a block of pink salt, about the size and shape of a brick and very heavy. You cook on it. First, you heat it up in a 375 degree oven for 30 minites. It comes out very hot so one's hands must be well protected when removing it from the oven. I put down a folded tea towel on my cooktop and work with it there. We cooked chicken cutlets, fish filets, shrimp and that worked quite well. I have cooked tuna steak and a salmon steak on it also.
Once the salt brick is out of the oven you lay down the raw fish on top and then monitor it for a few minutes. It will cook on one side, then you flip the fish over and finish it off in a few more minutes. For filets, this takes about eight minutes altogether. I sprinkle a little lemon on top, maybe add a sprig of thyme for flavor and that is it. The salt permeates the product in that short time to give it a nice flavor. I suspect that if one were doing a quantity it would have to go back into the oven for another heat -up.
We tried the another option which is to chill it in the fridge or freezer, and then lay down ice cream scoops; salt gives a nice touch to ice cream. Ever enjoy ice cream with salted pretzels? A wonderful pairing!
Salt blocks come in various sizes and shapes. The blocks are pretty too, being pink.
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