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Himalayan Salt Block SALE!!!

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  • Skiddymarker
    Skiddymarker Posts: 8,522
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    Prices look very good when considering shipping is included on some. Richard, do you have any experience with lava stones, kinda like a flameless fondue? Been considering getting one. 
    Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
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  • Richard Fl
    Richard Fl Posts: 8,297
    edited August 2014
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    Skiddymarker said:
    Prices look very good when considering shipping is included on some. Richard, do you have any experience with lava stones, kinda like a flameless fondue? Been considering getting one. 


    Only when in the Navy in Hawaii ' 67-'69 and the natives cooked luau  pigs in the ground with lava rocks red hot.  Back about 10 years ago we went to a steak house in Savannah GA and they served the food on slabs of some kind of hot rock.  Don't see why a salt block would not work.

    http://lavarockcooking.com/
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  • Skiddymarker
    Skiddymarker Posts: 8,522
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    Thanks for the response. there is no salt transfer with a lava rock as I recall. Same thing as you note, went to a restaurant where they served you a hot stone and you cooked your own. 
    Thanks for the link, tad more money than a salt block, eh?
    Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
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  • SmyrnaGA
    SmyrnaGA Posts: 438
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    Would the 8x1.5 round salt plates crack in a mini with no plate setter? Smooth or natural?

    Large BGE, Small BGE, KJ Jr, and a Cracked Vision Kub.

    in Smyrna GA.


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  • Buckfannon
    Buckfannon Posts: 1
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    Are these salt blocks safety tested so you can be confident they won't explode at mid to high heat? I had a cheap one that blew up one night at only 450 or 475. Good thing the dome was down!
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  • BigGreenPackerFan
    BigGreenPackerFan Posts: 43
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    The spec sheet states it handles temperatures up to 450 so I think I would be careful in the egg. SaltRox now makes a 13" Round 2" Thick that is rated all the way to 700 degrees and a lifetime warranty. www.saltrox.com
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  • Richard Fl
    Richard Fl Posts: 8,297
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    SmyrnaGA said:
    Would the 8x1.5 round salt plates crack in a mini with no plate setter? Smooth or natural?

    I use an 8" square 1 1/2" thick natural and have had a few small cracks over the 4 years I have had it.  Use about once every 4-6 weeks.  When it eventually is no longer useful for cooking will break up and add pieces to my6 salt grinder.

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  • Richard Fl
    Richard Fl Posts: 8,297
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    BigGreenPackerFan said:
    The spec sheet states it handles temperatures up to 450 so I think I would be careful in the egg. SaltRox now makes a 13" Round 2" Thick that is rated all the way to 700 degrees and a lifetime warranty. www.saltrox.com

    I have had my small too 550F with the salt block and it is still whole 4 years and about 20 cooks later.  I does have some cracks and will eventually end up in my salt grinder.

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