cooking on a salt block

Does anyone have experience cooking with a salt block or slab? All the cooking and foodie catalogs have been featuring them for a while but I have never heard any reports if they really do "conduct heat beautifully and delicately impart a wonderful depth of flavor..." I would appreciate your comments. I'm looking for unusual but useful foodie gifts.

I've used them in restaurants- they are an interewsting fad IMHO. I would imagine they would be quickly relagated to the shelf with the hibachi etc.

interewsting fad IMHO.

Gary,
Channeling Elmer Fudd today.
BP

If you want to try cooking that way, check TJMaxx / Marshalls / Home Goods before ordering from the catalogs - I have seen the small cooking slabs there several times. Might make the experiment a bit cheaper.

interewsting fad IMHO.

Gary,
Channeling Elmer Fudd today.
BP

Hard to fit it in the oven but cheap enough to buy

I have tried cedar planks before and have seen the pink salt blocks on Iron Chef, Food Network, etc...

I have never really been able to get the flavor out of these, come and go, cooking trends.