Camerons Himalayan Pink Salt Block for Grilling, 8"x8"

Bought it in 2020 and still going strong in 2026. Based on the reviews I was worried this would break. So far, it has shown durability and I've gotten the value for the money I purchased it for. Easy to use.

First off, I ordered the 8 x 8, and got a 12 x 6, and I'm not complaining!!! This is my first, and wasn't sure what size I'd need. Honestly, I don't know how you would cook on smaller than this. I used it my first time last night, made hamburger patties and grilled onions. I had read reviews, articles, tips and hints on the internet before even buying, and was prepared to heat it up slowly, so not to screw it up, success. What comes next, I wasn't prepared for. As mentioned, I thought this was pretty small for even hamburger patties, and onions (after the patties were cooked). I knew I couldn't fit 3 patties on the slab, so just did 2. Well, as the fat from the meat began coming out, it was dripping down the sides, used maybe a dozen paper towels to sop up the grease before it hit the electric burner (btw, I used a wok ring to set the slab on). I found that I should not leave this unattended for even a second, because in the time it took to take 2 steps to grab another papertowel, LOL, I got fire. A small fire that I quickly blew out. Then I leapt over to just grab the entire roll of papertowels to keep up with the grease. I sopped up all the grease when I took the other patties off and before putting the last patty on to cook. I found that it was much easier and less messy to do one at a time, ha, and no fires! Then came the onions. Again, I couldn't put them all on to cook, so did it in 2 batches, again, fire-free!! No, my next lesson... while the food was good, we really aren't big on salt. I cook with it, but we don't use it after food is cooked. And since this was cooked on salt, didn't use it when preparing. However, the food, meat and onions, turned out salty. Now, this isn't like table salt, over-salty, it was just more than our liking. My lesson? Yes, I was thinking that I'd heat up the block to the heat I use in my cast iron skillets for cooking these...wrong. It clearly says to get that temp up, or your food with be like it's marinating, and that's exactly what it was doing, marinating in salt! So, get that temp up to 500 degrees to avoid the saltiness, don't put too much meat that will produce THAT much grease (and I use 90% lean burger meat) at the same time. I absolutely detest cooking, and this took much longer than I ever want to spend in the kitchen, but, I have this strange desire to do this again, asap. Also, cleanup was very easy. Yeah, it took 3 hours for the block to cool off completely before I could clean it, but I bought the nifty scrubber thing with this, and it worked perfectly. I put water on the scrubber, not on the block, and just dried it with a papertowel. I do love the look of it on my stove, just hate how every time I see it, it keeps calling me, "cook on me". Next purchase, blinders and earplugs!

I was so excited to try but the slab came in multiple pieces. My bad, I didn’t see that there was no returns even though it was obvious that it was poorly made and fractured in multiple places. Update, seller reached out and sent a new slab. It does amazing things to chicken, steak, and hamburgers! So moist and flavorful, I can’t wait to try grilling other food on it. Definitely would recommend

This is a good sized salt block. At just over an inch thick, it does make cooking on an infrared grill a little tough. And at 8x8 in size, it makes for a difficult time cooking up all the food for a family meal, but can be done. Because it is a solid salt block, you do want to make sure that you don't use any salt in your preparation of the rubs or marinades, otherwise you will have a very salty dish. But if you leave out the salt in the preparation, then this block will help to cook in a good amount that enhances the flavor greatly. My only complaint is that I don't have a very effective way and location of storing this in between uses. But that's my problem and not the products. :)

Very heavy and not sturdy but a great value

I bought this for my husband for Christmas and we have used it many times. We cook our meat to a rare temp, heat this in the oven and then put it in the middle of the table. Place individual bites of steak on it to bring it up to desired temp. The kids have so much fun with it. Scallops and shrimp are also a hit. The Block has held up well and we will definitely buy another when the time comes.

The saltiness it imparted on a couple of beef burger patties was well beyond my tolerance for salt. I don't mean that in a medical or health context, but in a taste/sensation context. Might as well just go out to a local ranch and lick their horse's salt lick. Didn't come with any real instructions of rate of heating it up etc. Just very simple ones that say "heat slowly". Well, took me about 40+ minutes to heat it up, and then took like another 30+ mins to cook the burger patties. The cleaning isn't all that "clean", you basically have to scrape everything off and then, of course, in the process, you run the risk of wearing down the block just to get the seared on fat etc off of it. If you like salt licks, slow cook times, and not so great cleaning, buy this thing up!

I am totally impressed with the Himalayan Salt Slab. We say this at a cooking expo last year and bought it for my mom this Mother's Day. She has cooked on it 5 times (twice with me), and I am amazed at the taste and tenderness. We have cooked burgers on the slab, and we just made the patty out of ground beef, no seasoning and just put it on the slab and it was awesome, great taste and very tender. Same thing with the chicken, just place it on the Salt Slab and your are good to go. The chicken tasted like it was marinated for hours with all sorts of seasonings. I love this Salt Slab and we are getting one for ourselves. This size fits 4 smaller burger patties on it, and easily fits 2 large chicken breasts.

Received the block to give as a gift. The box had been opened and one of the corners was broken. It cannot be returned.

Product did arrive on time unfortunately it was crystallized In the bottle making me think it is not fresh