Grey Sea Salt, or Sel Gris Marin, is a traditional French sea salt from the Île de Ré, where it is harvested from the bottom of clay-lined salt marshes. Contact with the clay gives the salt its characteristic pale grey colour and contributes to its distinctive mineral character. Esprit du Sel offers it in both coarse and ground forms, with this version retaining the larger crystals and slightly damp texture that make sel gris so useful in the kitchen.
Esprit du Sel describes grey sea salt as a chef’s valuable cooking salt. The coarse crystals make it particularly well suited to seasoning during cooking, to salt crusts, to marinades and rubs, and to sprinkling over roasted vegetables, meat and savoury bakes where you want a little more texture than a fine salt gives.
For BakeryBits customers, this is a good pantry salt for savoury baking and cooking where a natural French sea salt with character is wanted. It is less about disappearing instantly into a dough than the ground version, and more about traditional texture, mineral depth and versatility at the stove or table.
Packed in a 250g jar, it is a practical way to keep a traditional sel gris to hand for everyday use.
