Icelandic Lava Salt Flakes - Saltverk

Black lava salt from Saltverk, Westfjords of Iceland

Flaky Icelandic sea salt blended with activated charcoal, which gives the flakes their black colour. Saltverk makes it at Reykjanes in Ísafjarðardjúp: seawater is heated in open pans with 93 °C water from the hot springs, and the flakes are lifted out by hand, drained and dried. Nothing else is added: no anti-caking agents, no additives, no iodine.

The charcoal brings no flavour of its own; Saltverk says it rounds the salt off so it tastes smoother than plain flakes. Use it as a finishing salt where it can be seen: herb butter, grilled fish, soups, fruit, dark chocolate, cocktails and red meat.

90 g (3.17 oz) glass jar, about 68 mm tall. Every batch is third-party tested for heavy metals.

How Saltverk makes its lava salt, from the Westfjords to your table.