Himilayan salt block?

[gh1950]

Looks like a fad.
Wont be part of my usual grill offering.

Yeah, they work, but don't do anything special.

You can get the same taste with a cast iron skillet and a salt shaker.

Seriously, an old fashioned way of doing much the same thing is to take a cast iron skillet, no oil, put a thin layer of kosher or other large grain salt in it, and get it blazing hot.

Slap you meat in it, and cook away. Steaks done this way are particularly tasty. If the skillet is seriously hot, all the juice will be sealed in.

same with fish, forms a nice crust, fish stays moist.

 

[ADAduckhuntr]

"slap your meat in it"
LoL

 

[kuduman]

Well... it's just a chunk of "black salt"-- salt that's pink or black due to the other mineral content, especially sulfur. You can buy ground black salt at any Indian grocery store, and it can be useful for cooking. My point being if you like the flavor, you can get it without having to cook on the block.

Vegetarians use it to give a fake "egg flavor" to certain dishes, due to the sulfur.

I like the stuff, frankly.

Obviously, you can get it from Amazon too:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=black+salt

But don't confuse it with Hawaiian or other "black salts" that are made with charcoal-- the "Himalyan" stuff comes out of the ground like that, and isn't actually black.