Etimo Pantelleria Capers in Sea Salt (3.17 Ounce)

Never going back to the vinegar brined stuff from chain supermarkets. Is packing in salt the traditional way for storing/curing caper berries? Sometimes the old ways are the best.I guess packing in salt lets the caper retain more of its essence, whereas in brine it leaches out into the solution.After tapping away the salt and rising, popped one in my mouth, and it was as if a Mediterranean garden bloomed in my mouth, so herbal and floral and grassy. Crunchy, crisp texture. Sure, it was salty, but it is a quality ingredient I can just use as the source of salt in my recipes.Also, when tapping the salt off a bunch of them at a time, I found that catching the salt in a bowl and using it later in other dishes in place of normal salt adds a caper-y fragrance. Even scrambled eggs are elevated.

I love capers, all sorts of uses. Pop in a salad, simple butter caper pasta sauce, endless.I have tired three other brands of capers preserved in salt and these are by far the best. Large and very floral tasting.Be sure to soak capers in water for 20 minutes or so and then rinse well else they will be way too salty.

Salted capers retain the actual taste of the caper berry. Capers in brine always have a chemical taste to me that somewhat overpowers the flavors of the dish. Just soak these in a bit of water to remove the salt and puff up. So easy, so much better.

Salt packed capers are not like the ones packed in vinegar. The salt must be rinsed off before consuming but when you do the flavor is full of floral notes that the vinegar brined capers no longer have. The flavor is no longer so one dimensional. Amazing in salads.

They are salty but when I soaked them like it states on the bottle, they were a lot less salty and the flavor wonderful. The ones sold in the brine has that brine taste these are a more fresh taste.

The quality of the actual capers was excellent. Problem, about 20% of the bag seem to be caper fruit, not the flower buds that one expects when they purchase capers. True, caper berries are "edible", they just aren't the same nor as nice as the actual capers. Better quality control and sorting is needed.

Did not have too much salt in the jar - really good.

these Capers are GREAT!!!!!