Oaktown Spice Shop — Applewood Smoked Sea Salt

The taste of the grill from a jar. Pacific sea salt slow-smoked over real applewood.

Oaktown's Applewood Smoked Sea Salt is exactly one ingredient: sea salt, smoked at low temperature over applewood until it picks up a sweet, bacon-like smokiness. There is no liquid smoke and no smoke flavoring. Because the smoke is in the salt itself, a pinch does what a whole grill session would, which makes it an easy way to add depth to food cooked indoors.

Who this is for

• You want that smoky, bacony flavor on eggs or avocado without the bacon
• Vegetarians and anyone cooking plant-forward who misses the grill
• Apartment cooks with no barbecue
• You make your own barbecue sauce or rubs and want the smoke without the additives
• Popcorn people; grind it a little finer and it clings

How to use

Finish roasted vegetables, pan-seared steak, a fried egg or sliced avocado. Stir into sauces and dips. 1/2 cup glass jar, 2.0 oz net. Ingredients: applewood smoked sea salt.

Hand-mixed and jarred in small batches by Oaktown Spice Shop in Oakland, California, one of the Bay Area's best-known independent spice merchants.