Ocean to Table: The Craft of Harvesting Sea Salt

A passionate salt maker shares his journey from Scandinavia back to the Pacific Northwest, where he began harvesting ocean water to create high-quality, handcrafted sea salt. Emphasizing the importance of origin, water quality, and the artisanal process, he showcases how differences in mineral content and harvesting locations contribute to the unique taste, texture, and color of the salt.

Ben Jacobsen is serious about his salt. This isn't simply someone's hobby or particular passion, this is a serious entrepreneurial effort to produce a world-class finishing salt from the waters of the Oregon coast, and turn his start-up company, Jacobsen Salt, into a successful enterprise.

A finishing salt is precisely as the name implies; it's used directly on foods that have been cooked, or are otherwise ready to eat. Jacobsen describes his salt as a "flake" salt, that has "a very clean briny taste" with a wonderful (non-bitter) finish to the food. According to Jacobsen, there are only 6 flake salt harvesters in the country, and his is the only commercial finishing salt manufacturing operation in Oregon.

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