Oriel Sea Salt & Ballymaloe Gardens

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Oriel Sea Salt was established at Port Oriel, Clogherhead, Co Louth in 2010 by Brian Fitzpatrick and John Delany. It extracts and harvests salt and minerals from sea water.

Oriel Sea Salt is a completely pure, fine grain sea salt harvested from the bay of Port Oriel, County Louth in Ireland. Here this ancient pure and natural resource is harvested using advanced patented technology. With 100% sustainability, we produce some of the world’s most natural marine extracts from the very source of ocean life itself, the ocean water. All our products are certified as meeting the standards of organic and sustainable production, kosher and halaal.

Oriel Sea Salt is an award-winning, 100% natural Irish sea salt. John and Brian both have pioneered an Irish sea salt that’s received national and international acclaim from cooks, chefs and food producers from Ireland all the way to the Californian coast. Oriel is the only company in Europe to hold two EU Protected Designation of Origin status (PDO) for their Mineral Sea Salt and Deep Ocean Magnesium. On a recent visit to Ballymaloe Gardens. John was invited by Darina to give a presentation to the students at Ballymaloe Cookery School on the exceptional qualities of Oriel sea salt in cooking.

There followed a lively Q&A . For John it was a privilege to speak in this foundation of modern Irish cooking.

“FOOD TASTES BETTER WITH ORIEL SEA SALT”

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WE ARE DELIGHTED TO LAUNCH OUR NEW 100 GRAM RETAIL JARS

It’s healthier to have more minerals and to use less salt.
Powerful flavour with mineral after tones.
Totally Irish – natural, pure and local.
Fine grain texture – Smooth deep flavour.
Perfect ingredient as a sea salt.
Smooth taste profile is embraced by food for complete flavour.
80% faster dissolves and disperses rapidly in recipes.
No additives it’s a sea salt as nature intended.
Non oxidised it’s harvested through a sealed system.
The forgiving sea salt – a little too much only means richer not saltier

Natural Mineral Sea Salt 100 gram: Slightly moist with a powder like grain. For those who like to pinch. This mineral sea salt has a powerfully smooth taste and allows you to use up to 25% less with no compromise on flavour.

Just ask some of our countries top chefs:

Ross Lewis, Chapter One

It’s not until you taste this salt that you realise how clean and pure its flavour could and should be. And it’s Irish we should all be using it!!!

Noel McMeel, Lough Erne Resort

Everyone should be using this, a super ingredient and it’s Irish!

Ed Cooney, The Pearl at The Merrion Hotel

Finally, a Sea Salt that does not overpower the dish but elevates the overall taste, super and Irish!

O’Donnells Hand Cooked Crisps, Ed O’Donnell

We tried a range of sea salts, but the taste profile of Oriel Sea Salt was supreme, these crisps have a wonderfully addictive taste!

Darren Harris, DIT National Bakery College

We found it to be very good, I was able to reduce salt down by 25% on average without difficulties in processing. I found it to be of good flavor and it had a clean taste. That said we really liked the breads that had a high level of your sea salt also!

Domini Kemp, Itsa Food Company