Maldon Salt

Maldon Salt has been my go-to salt of choice since I discovered it in England in the late 1990s. It’s got a pure clean salt taste, but best of all, the salt is in flakes which provide a wonderful crunch on top of your food.

The salt is extracted from the mud flats along the shores of Maldon, Essex, England. Poor Maldon is sometimes called “Maldon in the mud” because of its muddy coast line, but owing to the salt that comes out of it, they’ve been crying about it all the way to the bank since Roman times.

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You’d never use Maldon Salt in cooking; it’s what is called a “finishing salt” for use at the table, because the texture is part of what this salt is all about. That being said, the English cook Nigella Lawson scandalized people once by saying she tossed it in her pasta water.

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It is definitely a salt to be served in salt cellars or small salt pigs at the table. You can provide a spoon, or let people just grab a few pinches with their fingers. The standard wooden salt spoons hold 1/4 teaspoon of salt in volume, which goes a long way on your plate if it’s filled with a crunchy salt like this, so I know you’re seeing right away how you can both increase your salt high and reduce your salt usage at the same time.

In fact, this is so good on top of your food, I’d say as a cook definitely cut back on the salt in the food dishes you make so that you can better experience the contrast of the crunch and pure salty taste of Maldon salt on top.

Flakes of Maldon are supremely gorgeous on top a steak that has just come freshly screaming off the grill.

There’s also a smoked version now, but I have to commit heresy and say even eating it straight up, I really can’t taste any real difference between the smoked and the regular, not as so you’d write home about.

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One of the family (or the “outlaws”, as we call the in-laws) picked me up this Maldon salt pig for 50 p at a boot sale in Essex. It’s a phenomenal piece of kitchenware, so I’ll always keep it, though it’s so huge I can’t actually imagine filling it with salt.

For more in-depth information including the history and making of the salt, see my write-up over on cooksinfo.com on Maldon Salt.

For me, good quality table salts like Maldon are both supremely enjoyable as well as being a very helpful part of overall sodium intake reduction strategy (not that your family needs to know that.)

Oh and by the way, just read about the salt — don’t actually buy it. People outside England are starting to discover this salt and I don’t need the price going up anymore than it has! (grin)

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