Salt block repair

Spaceman Spiff

My 12" round Himalayan salt block was developing a large crack.

After considering several ideas I decided on using a SS hose clamp to try and hold it together.

I found a hose clamp kit that goes out to 13' from Lee Valley. I ordered the 1/2" size.

http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=65648&cat=1,43456,43465



I tighten the band fairly tight, put it in my large egg, fired it up to 500+ and held it there for awhile.

So far so good.

Spacey

dugdbug

I am not getting one of these, I am not getting one of these, I am...where would one get one of these salt blocks?

Photo Egg

Good idea.
I'm sure that block was not cheap.

Pepper Monkey BBQ

Hoping the repair holds ... now I'm wanting to see some of your cooks!!!

JM

BarManBean

One hell of a hose clamp! Those things are great tho...i have a couple of them on my wife's car, holding heat shields on around the exhaust system. They have held up for quite a while now.

I would think that having two clamps on there (one at the top, one at the bottom) would give you a lot of stability.

Good fix!

Mainegg

I have been drooling over one here
http://www.saltworks.us/shop/product.asp?idProduct=781

Spaceman Spiff

I would not get a 12" to start with.

It is HEAVY (19 lbs), large and takes quite a bit of time to heat up. (And they are expensive. $90+)

I like it but I am currently using a 8"x8"x1.5" block I got from Sur la Table. It came as a 8x12 but I sawed off the extra 4".

I use it on our indoor gas stove.

Make sure the block you get is as 'flawless' as you can get. The more evenly colored it is the less chance of cracks. But expect any block to crack.

Google himalayan salt block.

www.atthemeadow.com is a good starting place.

Spacey

Spaceman Spiff

That is the one I have.

Spacey

Spaceman Spiff

I would think that having two clamps on there (one at the top, one at the bottom) would give you a lot of stability

Thought about it but decided to try using one clamp.

Spacey

dugdbug

Very interesting, I will do the research,
Thanks

stike

one is better. compresses the block together with a nice even distributed load.

two clamps would need to be equal, else one would be clamping tighter than the other and the block would have a tendency to open more on the other side away from it.

no great risk with two, just no need

i'd actually tighten it no overly crazy-tight, because the block expands when heated. sure, the band expands too, but you don't want to create too much stress.

Frank from Houma

I thought you were going to warn of SS off gassing issues

Hopefully I didn't open the "off gassing can"

stike

no such thing (in the egg, anyway)