New South Florida Company The Spice Lab Offers Gourmet Salt Collections

A new company shaking things up in the food industry is The Spice Lab. Featured on the Food Network show "Alton Brown's Good Eats," this exciting enterprise is currently offering several collections of international table, finishing, and cooking salts.

The Spice Lab's Gourmet Salt Collections are multi-pack samplers of sea salts from around the world are a great way to spice up any meat, fish, soup, or salad, and are convenient to use and store. The collections are presented in affordable, portable, and decorative packages, perfect for kitchen countertops. They even comes with reference guides with suggestions on which salts go with which dishes, making it easy to create the perfect combination of flavors.

Each collection includes Pyrex test tubes with natural cork stoppers and a handmade base from reclaimed shipping pallets. Each test tube contains .8 to 1.3 ounces of salt, depending on the density of each product.

Brett Cramer, President and Chief Taste Tester of The Spice Lab, conceived the idea as a result of his passion for cooking with unique ingredients. Always on the lookout for something different and exotic, this Florida native sourced a distributor and discovered that there are many different varieties of salts. When the products arrived in five-pound bags, he figured that he had enough seasoning to last him the rest of his life. Cramer relates, "People actually laughed when I showed them my shipment of salts in giant plastic bags. But once they smelled the aroma and tasted the flavor of each variety, their laughter turned into requests for samples."

After he started offering family and friends small bags of the salts, Cramer hit upon the idea of making sampler collections. Searching for proper packaging led him to a test tube company, and subsequently inspired The Spice Lab name. While he printed cards and labels with product descriptions, a small staff of hearty employees developed an assembly line for measuring the granules and filling the tubes.

The challenge for Cramer then became how to display and distribute the test tubes. Once again, his ingenuity came into play. "I remembered seeing a local businessman throwing out wooden pallets in back of his warehouse. When I asked him if I could buy them from him, he actually offered to pay me to take them."

Recycling these discarded shipping pallets into hand-cut and precision-drilled bases for the test tubes added the finishing touch to the products. Cramer continues, "Now the same people who laughed when they first saw the bags of salt in my office are telling me how impressive the products look in the natural wooden holders."

These samplers are bound to make a great addition to anyone's kitchen, and are practical gifts for chefs and cooks of all experience levels. The company also has many different varieties of salts available for individual purchase, and will be announcing other products in the near future.

From upscale restaurants to backyard barbeques, these products from The Spice Lab will definitely leave a lasting impression. For more details, check out www.TheSpiceLab.com .

"Thank you so much for the Italian Kala Namak Black Sulfur Salt, the Gourmet Salt Collection, and the information detailing the specifics of each salt. A variety of the salts were shown in the recent 'Good Eats' episode 'The ballad of Salty and Sweet.' Thanks again for the salt and all your help."
--Alton Brown and the "Good Eats" Gang