Umami is a loanword from Japanese that means “savory taste” or “essence of deliciousnes”. In the west, savory taste was thought to be derived from saltiness, but in the East, Umami was known to impact flavor independently. These days, it’s recognized worldwide as the fifth sense of taste after sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. Some foods rich in Umami are tomatoes, chiles, mushrooms, and parmesan!

Umami makes your food deeper, tastier, and more satisfying.

Our salt infusion process is quite unique, so consistency in size and shape of the salt crystal is important to us. After years of testing, we determined that pure, refined salt, rather than sea salt, is the best for our processes. Our infused salts are more flavorful than sea salts, packed with flavor, and we know you will love cooking with them!

We know the ingredients in your food are important to you; that is why we do our best to use whole foods to achieve the same results as some common anti-caking agents.

To reduce clumping in certain blends, we use non-gmo cornstarch in small amounts when it is needed (less than 1% in most blends!).

If you are ever curious, just look at the label!

We don’t use any artificial colors or flavors!

For the sake of transparency, we would like to mention that we do use citric acid in certain blends to brighten the flavor profile.

Our bottles are each filled by weight rather than volume. After our spices and blends are ground and mixed fresh, they are then bottled (by hand!). The fill weight of each blend will vary based on the density and moisture content of its components. For example, an herb blend like Mountain Joy has a much lower fill weight because its components have a lower density than one of our salts. Your spices may also have settled during shipping, and we reccomend giving the bottle a good shake when you first receive them to bring the ingredients back to their original fill level.

We are not certified as vegan or gluten free.

But…

We do not process any animal products, so our entire line of salts, seasonings and spice blends are vegan.

We do not process any ingredients that contain gluten. Since some individuals who are sensitive to gluten can also be sensitive to oats, please be aware that we do use gluten-free oats in some of our blends. All of these products are labeled as such.

We smoke our ingredients using real hardwoods, using traditional methods.

Real smoked spices are superior to artificial ingredients like “liquid” smoke. We smoke REAL food, not junk like maltodextrin! In order to have a CLEAN smoke flavor you need a hot fire, and a dedicated pit master to keep it. We smoke for flavor, so we don’t cut corners.

We make extracts using bourbon or tequila as a solvent or by boiling foods the same way you would make stock. We use brines from our lactic ferments and our various extracts to infuse flavors into salts, sugars, and more!