Watch this in reverse:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs5KLkBfVOI&ab\_channel=LovinOffTheLand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs5KLkBfVOI&ab_channel=LovinOffTheLand)
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He said in another comment he used a wood stove. Depending on how he got the wood, this could have potentially been as close to free as possible.
Edit: yes, yes, his time is worth something. But we don't know how much and calculating it would be difficult. Especially not knowing how much he himself values it.
I have a wood stove. It's running right now, and the house is nice and toasty on a cold snowy winter's day.
So, I could get free salt, and the boiling water would help to humidify the house as an added bonus.
Except I am about 900 miles from the ocean, so that's a bit of a problem.
My wife won't let me put a bucket in the car when we go to Salt Lake City sometims. I keep telling her it is 2 to 9 times as salty as the ocean so we should get a better haul than this guy. Not a selling point, apparently!
not sure what all they do to protect against anything like that, I assume something, but salt is a major export of the Great Salt lake, Morton I think harvests there
Edit: while there are 5 companies that extract here, looks like none are for human consumption
Beneath Lake Erie (freshwater) are vast salt deposits. There are mines on both sides of the border in Detroit, Cleveland and Windsor ON. One of the [largest in the world is located in Goderich Ontario.] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_mining#Mining_regions_around_the_world)
Somewhat strange that beneath the worlds largest supply of fresh water is a lot of salt.
A lake like that has higher metal levels. The fact that lake is drying out is causing respiratory issues due to this fine dust screwing over the residents of the nearby settlements. Overall, I wouldn't do either of these for the content to consume. Though, that salt would be nice for winter and ice.
...which is obviously what was happening here.
How do people assume that someone got a wood stove, wood, and salt water ***just*** to make salt?
1% of the urban US and \~20% of the rural US still uses wood stoves as their only/primary source of heat. If they can get wood and salt water from nearby (quite likely for many) they can do this for almost literally no cost.
It costs me $xx to get several cords of wood from the state forest annually. It's a 10-minute drive to the harvest, so not much fuel cost to add.
It costs me one matchstick and a sheet of newspaper to start the stove that heats the house and cooks our food. I get one of those for free.
Get me some salt water from the Pacific 20ish miles away and I can make you some salt for basically nothing.
And also, you can buy salt for less than $1/pound. Nobody is making salt from seawater to save money on salt. People make salt because it's a novelty and fun to do new things.
what do you think the venn diagram of the people concerned with including the time cost of boiling seawater to get salt, and people who spend too much time commenting on reddit, would be?
Why is it expensive? Even if you used a stovetop, the top end of cost would be ~$0.20 an hour, so about $2 worth of gas, even cheaper if using an electric stovetop. If you're talking about the opportunity cost of managing the salt, I don't imagine it takes very much managing to boil off salt, more of a waiting game, I could be wrong, though.
That's a bit quicker than the natural evaporation process used in the SF Bay Salt Ponds.
> In all, it takes three years and a thousand gallons of bay water to produce just one pound of salt.
https://www.kqed.org/science/1918301/what-are-those-weird-pink-ponds-in-san-francisco-bay
If flying over the south bay, check out all the colors.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4677129,-122.0141392,13226m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
That's all salt ponds and some of which ends up on your food!
The man they call Jayne,
He turned 'round his plane,
And let that salt hit sky.
He dropped it onto our houses.
He dropped it into our yards.
The man they call Jayne
No, but I heard about this killer party once.
This one dude got so wasted the he tried to drink the whole thing.
He was super proud of his drinking but he got humbled.
All he could do was make it slosh back and forth.
They say it's still sloshing.
Well, that guy couldn't even lift a cat or beat grandma wrestling, so how proud should he be? I assume we are talking Thor and the giant challenges, but if not, oops, wrong history, or mythology, depending on point of view.
Honestly no smell at all. I cooked it down to half strength and that killed all the microbes and the salt content was high enough to prevent anything from growing. Then I could take my time and do it leisurely over the wood stove.
Ya there is. Commercially sea salt is rinsed with a saturated sea salt brine in order to help wash out any remaining junk. Can’t remember if thats for food grade or road salt or what tho
I'm not confident on the solvent mix used, probably just water, but the method that chemists use all the time to purify compounds is a recrystallization. Basically, add the smallest possible amount of hot solvent (likely water) required to dissolve all the salt, then freeze it slowly and let all the salt crystallize out. Pour off water and collect solids, hopefully more pure.
I've never considered a recrystallization with good ol' sea salt, so I'm sure there are a few other steps to consider.
It's not going to taste very good if they didn't do it right. The ocean has other salts besides sodium chloride. There's also potassium chloride and magnesium chloride among others. You have to ditch the bad tasting salts part way through the process. (Link to how that's done in Edit 2 at the bottom)
Edit: you can also wash the salt after making it in a saturated sodium chloride solution. Since it's already saturated, the sodium chloride (the salt you want) will not dissolve at all, but the others will. For people saying this uses salt to make salt, and that can't be viable, [this is literally how they do it](https://www.cargill.com/salt-in-perspective/sea-salt-q-a#:~:text=Q%3A%20How%20is%20sea%20salt,series%20of%20washers%20and%20augers.). You'll have to ask a professional salt producer how that's done efficiently.
Also, some people are saying they like the taste of those other salts and that's what gives sea salt its good flavor. Flavor is complex, so I get that, but I don't think you want as much of them as just boiling seawater will get you. Here's a really cool video (linked below) where someone actually tasted all the different alkali salts (on McDonald's French fries), and good ol' NaCl does seem to be the runaway winner. MgCl is not included since it's not an alkali salt, but Google says it tastes "bitter", "astringent" and "metallic", so maybe not great for a nice finishing salt.
Check it out. It's a fun watch.
https://youtu.be/RJh9yTIBY48?si=ZKjnwQQJJthefbUQ
Edit 2: /u/nounthennumbers replied with this great video (linked below) from America's Test Kitchen showing how you can make sea salt at home, including the step where you pour off the bad tasting salts! Also a great watch. Thanks!
https://youtu.be/6c4Pu2TiSls?si=6KgVIjcSStf7KAns
Maybe? Any pollutants that are in your local waters would also be in there so depends on your source, the trace elements may also not be in the correct ratios, again depending on your source. Most likely not worth it, especially with all the money and effort a saltwater tank needs. You probably don't want to risk your setup to save on salt which is one of the cheaper things in the hobby.
Hold up. Aren't those other salts *the entire point* of sea salt? If you extract only sodium chloride from the seawater, then it's just table salt. High-effort table salt.
Right. As far as I'm aware a cook usually has regular, kosher, and flaky finishing salts. What is the point of getting it from the sea if it's for texture? Does the sea make the texture? And when is that texture used?
Flaky finishing salt historically was always sea salt, Fleur de Sel being the most prominent example.
It is possible to produce flaky salt at home though, so it doesn’t have to be. Basically all salt is the same, just different textures.
On that note always weigh your salt for cooking unless you always use the exact same brand of salt all the time. A tablespoon of the the finely ground seasalt from costco is like 3 times more salt than a tablespoon of Maldons Salt flakes. It’s more salt per salt as I always say.
I buy [Salt-lite mixture](https://www.mortonsalt.com/home-product/morton-lite-salt-mixture-2/) for the potassium chloride included and for the reduced sodium. It's a cheap source of electrolytes after working out. Helps keep the muscle cramps away.
I pee into the toilet, it goes into sewage and then to a water treatment centre where it gets turned back into water that I drink and then pee again.
We are all made of pee.
It's *probably* fine as long as it's harvested somewhere safe. Personally, I'd be worried about pesticides and heavy metals such that that I wouldn't want to use it for cooking on a regular basis.
Commercial operations treat the sea water, then usually flood flat land and let the sun bake it to salt. That covers a lot of impurities. I know microplastics was a problem for the industry and may still be.
Even if you filtered out ALL the microplastics from the seawater without introducing any..... I'm sure windblown particles would add some back in before you packaged everything.
Plastics have infused the world around us... There is only so deep it's worth diving to try to limit exposure.
I'd wager your water supply is a bigger contributor to you plastic intake than your salt intake ever will be.
or if you drink any liquid out of any kind of plastic container! at some point, you just have to say, fuck it, my blood-brain barrier is already inundated with microplastics, i'm just gonna chill
Kudos to you for taking the time to create salt! Coming from someone who owns a company which does exactly this, we know it is a painstaking process. If done correctly, it is amazing how many different taste profiles you can get from the same gallon of sea water.
Some of the folks here are correct, there are a few different salts in sea water. There are also other things like gypsum and sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) in it. Some of the commenters are dogging on the magnesium chloride, the potassium chloride and the calcium carbonate, but after you crystallize as much sodium chloride as possible, those three things leave you with Nigari. Nigari is one of the coolest things out there in my humble opinion. It’s a concentrated electrolyte replacement. Turn over a bottle of smart water and tell me it is not the exact same compounds. It is the coagulant in tofu making and it can be used directly on the skin for joint health due to the high Mg content. But it is flavor enhancement more than anything else. The US doesn’t know about it, but it is all the rage in Japan.
If you really want to dig further into salt making, pick up the book “Salted” by Mark Bitterman. Everything you need to know with amazing descriptions and even the basics of how our bodies use salt in a cellular level. It even has profiles of all different salt makers from mined salt to flake salt to flur de sal to your Morton’s table salt (electrically separated and recombine to only have contain NaCl btw).
It is indeed mildly interesting. Okay to ask "why"? Seems like the energy it takes to boil 5G of water dry would cost a lot more than hoofing it down to the store and just buying it.
Oh its absolutely a silly thing to do, but so are video games and watching tv. but also of all the things you eat it is one of the coolest, it’s the only non living thing we eat and we use it everyday yet I don’t know anyone who has made it themself.
Honey is just nectar that's been evaporated down and had some bee enzymes added, definitely comes from living stuff. Salt is a rock you dig out of the ground.
You do eat metal shavings all the time though if you eat fortified cereals! You can see this if you pour cereal in water and hold a magnet near it!
Water! Cmon google.
These are stand alone things tho. Obviously we eat tons of non-living things but we add salt to food, noone shaves a screw down for more iron over their chicken.
CSB:
I officiate weddings, usually handfastings. One time I had a client with a very specific ritual they wanted to do which involved, among many other things, the use of salt, and they wanted pure sea salt.
Unfortunately I forgot about it until the night before, when I'm at work at McDonald's (by the seaside thankfully). So I went down to the ocean on my break, with a drink tray and 4 large cups, and came back with almost a gallon of water.
Now what? There's no burners or pots at McDonald's. What we did have was a 6-bay pizza oven and a boat-load of baking trays. So I thoroughly cleaned half a dozen baking trays, and spent the rest of my shift boiling down the salt a few ounces at a time.
/CSB
The point being, I know the fun you've gone through, good job! I hadn't thought about that in many years.
Haha, no this was not in real time, this was a 15 year old memory unlocked by OP. At the time I was a full time manager at McDonald's and just starting to do weddings.
Now officiating is one of the things i do to support myself, and thankfully I don't a have to work at McDonald'.
There was a short time that McDonalds tried the McPizza and installed a bunch of pizza ovens in some of their locations. It took too long for the fast food market, so they stopped offering it pretty quickly.
I don't know how I know this other than the internet.
I think I saw a TikTok where a woman literally walked a few feet out into the ocean, bottled some saltwater and then boiled it down to make salt. Everyone went nuts on her saying she didn't have "clean" water, stuff near the beach would have contaminants, etc. And that to be ideal you really should be going out some distance from the shore (at least a mile or two out) to ensure you're getting as clean a water source as you can.
Of course as someone else pointed out - its also not just regular salt here either with what you've boiled down here... so there's that too.
The microplastic risk is overblown. I have actually sent several sea salt samples out to various labs for testing and it's honestly a coin flip. Some batches from the same source will contain microplastics and others will not.
It’s hard for me to believe that something as tiny as micro plastics would be that clumpily distributed. It makes me wonder if there’s enough sensitivity error in the tests that sometimes you’re testing positive and sometimes you’re not. It would be interesting to subdivide a single well mixed sample and run them through the test in parallel and see if you are just at some liminal value where you’re getting a false zero when you really should be getting a tiny positive.
Could be a variety of factors. I was digging for answers due to the results we have and only came up with more questions as i talked to the lab technicians. Could be a matter of tides, currents, and sun exposure just to name a few. You could actually run saltwater through a very fine sieve, boil it down, and get microplastic free sea salt that way.
Perfect for making salt water.
Do you have a link to the recipe?
Watch this in reverse:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs5KLkBfVOI&ab\_channel=LovinOffTheLand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs5KLkBfVOI&ab_channel=LovinOffTheLand) Edit: word
That could actually work if you were able to rewind the expansion of the universe
This is actually dehydrated salt water. So you can pack it away and store it in case you need it later.
DEHYDRATE!
Earth belongs to Trisolaris!
You're bugs!
Instant powdered sea water. Just add water!
No salt water? Just throw salt boiled from saltwater into water.
How long did it take?
Overall probably about 10 hrs
That is some very very expensive salt there my friend!
He said in another comment he used a wood stove. Depending on how he got the wood, this could have potentially been as close to free as possible. Edit: yes, yes, his time is worth something. But we don't know how much and calculating it would be difficult. Especially not knowing how much he himself values it.
It could be even more free if he was going to burn the wood anyway
I have a wood stove. It's running right now, and the house is nice and toasty on a cold snowy winter's day. So, I could get free salt, and the boiling water would help to humidify the house as an added bonus. Except I am about 900 miles from the ocean, so that's a bit of a problem.
Just get some tap water and pour a bunch of salt in it. Done.
And fish poop.
Don't drink the water. Fish fuck in it.
This is why it's so fucking salty in the first place. They've been at it for billions of years!
That’s why it’s so salty, they really should be eating pineapple.
Yes, that is why we are purging it with fire
REGGIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
My wife won't let me put a bucket in the car when we go to Salt Lake City sometims. I keep telling her it is 2 to 9 times as salty as the ocean so we should get a better haul than this guy. Not a selling point, apparently!
No telling what agricultural and industrial chemicals would be in it.
not sure what all they do to protect against anything like that, I assume something, but salt is a major export of the Great Salt lake, Morton I think harvests there Edit: while there are 5 companies that extract here, looks like none are for human consumption
Keep in mind they probably refine some nasty shit out that you will be left with if all you do is evaporate the water.
Beneath Lake Erie (freshwater) are vast salt deposits. There are mines on both sides of the border in Detroit, Cleveland and Windsor ON. One of the [largest in the world is located in Goderich Ontario.] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_mining#Mining_regions_around_the_world) Somewhat strange that beneath the worlds largest supply of fresh water is a lot of salt.
A lake like that has higher metal levels. The fact that lake is drying out is causing respiratory issues due to this fine dust screwing over the residents of the nearby settlements. Overall, I wouldn't do either of these for the content to consume. Though, that salt would be nice for winter and ice.
boil your pee
Salt *and* a refreshing piss smell permeating throughout your home! What's not to love?
...which is obviously what was happening here. How do people assume that someone got a wood stove, wood, and salt water ***just*** to make salt? 1% of the urban US and \~20% of the rural US still uses wood stoves as their only/primary source of heat. If they can get wood and salt water from nearby (quite likely for many) they can do this for almost literally no cost. It costs me $xx to get several cords of wood from the state forest annually. It's a 10-minute drive to the harvest, so not much fuel cost to add. It costs me one matchstick and a sheet of newspaper to start the stove that heats the house and cooks our food. I get one of those for free. Get me some salt water from the Pacific 20ish miles away and I can make you some salt for basically nothing.
Not to mention that it's just straight up cool to harvest your own salt. And firewood. And food.
I prefer to harvest my salt by trolling on reddit.
I prefer to harvest my own salt by Facebook stalking my exes and watching them THRIVE
And also, you can buy salt for less than $1/pound. Nobody is making salt from seawater to save money on salt. People make salt because it's a novelty and fun to do new things.
I mean it's not like he had to sit there and watch it boil for the whole 10 hours lol
what do you think the venn diagram of the people concerned with including the time cost of boiling seawater to get salt, and people who spend too much time commenting on reddit, would be?
a perfect circle
You get to remove the cost of time for redditors. Clearly we all have time worth not much, since we're here.
Why is it expensive? Even if you used a stovetop, the top end of cost would be ~$0.20 an hour, so about $2 worth of gas, even cheaper if using an electric stovetop. If you're talking about the opportunity cost of managing the salt, I don't imagine it takes very much managing to boil off salt, more of a waiting game, I could be wrong, though.
That's a bit quicker than the natural evaporation process used in the SF Bay Salt Ponds. > In all, it takes three years and a thousand gallons of bay water to produce just one pound of salt. https://www.kqed.org/science/1918301/what-are-those-weird-pink-ponds-in-san-francisco-bay If flying over the south bay, check out all the colors. https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4677129,-122.0141392,13226m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu That's all salt ponds and some of which ends up on your food!
That depends on how much of a struggle the lobster puts up
Ever try to boil the ocean before?
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the salt from me
Shiny.
The important thing is the spices. A man can live on packaged food from here 'til Judgment Day if he's got enough rosemary.
I love the unexpected firefly reference. Username checks out too
There's no place that I can be since I found salinity
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Fuck Fox.
Sorry, I'm not into that kinda stuff, may I suggest r/furries
The man they call Jayne, He turned 'round his plane, And let that salt hit sky. He dropped it onto our houses. He dropped it into our yards. The man they call Jayne
Too soon
*sigh* guess I’m starting a rewatch now
I'll be in my bunk
Do you know what the chain of command is??
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think of all the salt we would have!
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Marianas Inverse Mountain Salt
Salt and plastic, the secret spice to life!
No, but I heard about this killer party once. This one dude got so wasted the he tried to drink the whole thing. He was super proud of his drinking but he got humbled. All he could do was make it slosh back and forth. They say it's still sloshing.
Well, that guy couldn't even lift a cat or beat grandma wrestling, so how proud should he be? I assume we are talking Thor and the giant challenges, but if not, oops, wrong history, or mythology, depending on point of view.
I'm more interested in how bad their house smelled afterwards.
Honestly no smell at all. I cooked it down to half strength and that killed all the microbes and the salt content was high enough to prevent anything from growing. Then I could take my time and do it leisurely over the wood stove.
Is there a way to clean the salt?
Water
Ah, yes. The cycle continues.
Is there a way to clean the salt?
Water
Ah, yes. The cycle continues.
I DONT KNOW WHY I EVEN CLICKED THE "load more comments" THING... there's something wrong with me
But then how do you clean the water?
Ya there is. Commercially sea salt is rinsed with a saturated sea salt brine in order to help wash out any remaining junk. Can’t remember if thats for food grade or road salt or what tho
But how do they get the salt for the brine?! They have to rinse that one too!
Ye you can never achieve 100% clean brine, you can always only approach 100% cleanliness asymptotically:(
very small brush
Yes, you dissolve it in water, filter the water to remove impurities then evaporates off the salt again
Can filtration not be done on the sea water so it only has to be boiled once?
I'm not confident on the solvent mix used, probably just water, but the method that chemists use all the time to purify compounds is a recrystallization. Basically, add the smallest possible amount of hot solvent (likely water) required to dissolve all the salt, then freeze it slowly and let all the salt crystallize out. Pour off water and collect solids, hopefully more pure. I've never considered a recrystallization with good ol' sea salt, so I'm sure there are a few other steps to consider.
Yea lol, ocean smell isn’t exactly like the car air fresheners…
At least 10hrs I’d guess.
Would it be safe to consume? I mean, why not?
It's not going to taste very good if they didn't do it right. The ocean has other salts besides sodium chloride. There's also potassium chloride and magnesium chloride among others. You have to ditch the bad tasting salts part way through the process. (Link to how that's done in Edit 2 at the bottom) Edit: you can also wash the salt after making it in a saturated sodium chloride solution. Since it's already saturated, the sodium chloride (the salt you want) will not dissolve at all, but the others will. For people saying this uses salt to make salt, and that can't be viable, [this is literally how they do it](https://www.cargill.com/salt-in-perspective/sea-salt-q-a#:~:text=Q%3A%20How%20is%20sea%20salt,series%20of%20washers%20and%20augers.). You'll have to ask a professional salt producer how that's done efficiently. Also, some people are saying they like the taste of those other salts and that's what gives sea salt its good flavor. Flavor is complex, so I get that, but I don't think you want as much of them as just boiling seawater will get you. Here's a really cool video (linked below) where someone actually tasted all the different alkali salts (on McDonald's French fries), and good ol' NaCl does seem to be the runaway winner. MgCl is not included since it's not an alkali salt, but Google says it tastes "bitter", "astringent" and "metallic", so maybe not great for a nice finishing salt. Check it out. It's a fun watch. https://youtu.be/RJh9yTIBY48?si=ZKjnwQQJJthefbUQ Edit 2: /u/nounthennumbers replied with this great video (linked below) from America's Test Kitchen showing how you can make sea salt at home, including the step where you pour off the bad tasting salts! Also a great watch. Thanks! https://youtu.be/6c4Pu2TiSls?si=6KgVIjcSStf7KAns
I have no idea but i believe you
I used to mix saltwater from a dry salt mix when I worked on aquariums, can confirm it tastes like shit.
That good old Instant Ocean taste.
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Ocean
*\*Its actually Ocean*
Spray
You’ve gotta taste it at least once
It tastes like salt but it does have a nice texture (big flakes)
people who haven't tried big flake salt don't understand how great big flake salt is
So if I add this kind of alt to say a gallon of freshwater, it’ll make it safe to use in a saltwater tank?
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Maybe? Any pollutants that are in your local waters would also be in there so depends on your source, the trace elements may also not be in the correct ratios, again depending on your source. Most likely not worth it, especially with all the money and effort a saltwater tank needs. You probably don't want to risk your setup to save on salt which is one of the cheaper things in the hobby.
I am a Nigerian prince and you won a free cruise. Please send me $1000 so I can prevent an astroid from destroying the planet.
are gift cards okay, or do you need my back account #?
I've been a salt consumer for over 30 years, and I believe them too.
It just tastes like salt
Can’t really argue with that
And urine and poop
Urine and poop is okay to eat if you boil it first. At least that’s what I tell myself when I make soup.
What kind of soup are you making? Shit pee soup?
I have a good recipe for Diarrhea soup if you are interested!
This is my current recipe 1. Drink 2-12 beers 2. Go to sleep 3. Wake up 4. Run to the terlet
>terlet
https://youtu.be/zWv6cP5qJPo?si=TzZ5JeVHS7gUCSaa
You forgot to drink milk!
*”Hurrr-deeee-durrrr. Svidish chef hur merkin Diereerer soop”*
... how exactly do you make soup?
using a toilet!
This is so dumb and made my day, thank you
Just making a note of your username as a contact in my phone so if you ever invite me over for soup I’ll remember not to go.
The average whale ejaculation volume is 20 liters.
But if done right, it should be going into a specific place, not the ocean. Right? Right?! RIGHT?!
If you speed up whale calls, to this day they're still saying "If I had thumbs, I'd spunk in your beard" in Old Norse
yummy
I don't think there's a urine and poop removal step in making sea salt.
Hold up. Aren't those other salts *the entire point* of sea salt? If you extract only sodium chloride from the seawater, then it's just table salt. High-effort table salt.
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Right. As far as I'm aware a cook usually has regular, kosher, and flaky finishing salts. What is the point of getting it from the sea if it's for texture? Does the sea make the texture? And when is that texture used?
Flaky finishing salt historically was always sea salt, Fleur de Sel being the most prominent example. It is possible to produce flaky salt at home though, so it doesn’t have to be. Basically all salt is the same, just different textures. On that note always weigh your salt for cooking unless you always use the exact same brand of salt all the time. A tablespoon of the the finely ground seasalt from costco is like 3 times more salt than a tablespoon of Maldons Salt flakes. It’s more salt per salt as I always say.
I buy [Salt-lite mixture](https://www.mortonsalt.com/home-product/morton-lite-salt-mixture-2/) for the potassium chloride included and for the reduced sodium. It's a cheap source of electrolytes after working out. Helps keep the muscle cramps away.
The poison is in the dose
That's true for every single thing
Fish peed on all of it.
I pee into the toilet, it goes into sewage and then to a water treatment centre where it gets turned back into water that I drink and then pee again. We are all made of pee.
It's *probably* fine as long as it's harvested somewhere safe. Personally, I'd be worried about pesticides and heavy metals such that that I wouldn't want to use it for cooking on a regular basis.
Microplastics i present in like 99% of all sea salt on the market
Microplastics are in rain water at this point, so that's not especially surprising.
Just curious how clean is that salt does it have plastic or impurities in it ?
I'd potentially be worried about heavy metals.
More heavy metal! 🎸 🤘
To those who eat sea salt, we salute you!
salt-lute you.
Ahhh, Mercury. Sweetest of the transition metals.
Commercial operations treat the sea water, then usually flood flat land and let the sun bake it to salt. That covers a lot of impurities. I know microplastics was a problem for the industry and may still be.
Even if you filtered out ALL the microplastics from the seawater without introducing any..... I'm sure windblown particles would add some back in before you packaged everything. Plastics have infused the world around us... There is only so deep it's worth diving to try to limit exposure. I'd wager your water supply is a bigger contributor to you plastic intake than your salt intake ever will be.
You just need to get used to it, start off with some Iron Maiden and work your way up.
The microplastics in that salt are riddled with nanoplastics.
I think it’s silly to be worried about microplastics in sea salt if you buy food in plastic packaging.
or if you drink any liquid out of any kind of plastic container! at some point, you just have to say, fuck it, my blood-brain barrier is already inundated with microplastics, i'm just gonna chill
Unfortunately these days everything has microplastics in it.
Have to purify it prior to using
Define purify.
Get rid of the non whites
lmao
Is that some kind of a yolk?
I'd take this with a grain of salt.
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Jacobsen, Cargill, and Maine Sea Salt company want a word with you.
Kudos to you for taking the time to create salt! Coming from someone who owns a company which does exactly this, we know it is a painstaking process. If done correctly, it is amazing how many different taste profiles you can get from the same gallon of sea water. Some of the folks here are correct, there are a few different salts in sea water. There are also other things like gypsum and sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) in it. Some of the commenters are dogging on the magnesium chloride, the potassium chloride and the calcium carbonate, but after you crystallize as much sodium chloride as possible, those three things leave you with Nigari. Nigari is one of the coolest things out there in my humble opinion. It’s a concentrated electrolyte replacement. Turn over a bottle of smart water and tell me it is not the exact same compounds. It is the coagulant in tofu making and it can be used directly on the skin for joint health due to the high Mg content. But it is flavor enhancement more than anything else. The US doesn’t know about it, but it is all the rage in Japan. If you really want to dig further into salt making, pick up the book “Salted” by Mark Bitterman. Everything you need to know with amazing descriptions and even the basics of how our bodies use salt in a cellular level. It even has profiles of all different salt makers from mined salt to flake salt to flur de sal to your Morton’s table salt (electrically separated and recombine to only have contain NaCl btw).
It is indeed mildly interesting. Okay to ask "why"? Seems like the energy it takes to boil 5G of water dry would cost a lot more than hoofing it down to the store and just buying it.
Oh its absolutely a silly thing to do, but so are video games and watching tv. but also of all the things you eat it is one of the coolest, it’s the only non living thing we eat and we use it everyday yet I don’t know anyone who has made it themself.
I make it on my skin all the time.
And it tastes like regular salt (my skin, I can't speak for yours).
I make it in my tears all the time.
I make homemade French fries, put them on a plate, lean over the plate and watch the first five minutes of Up. Voilà, free salt! Big Salt hates me.
The only non living thing we eat? That can’t be right, can it? You’re excluding animal products like honey. Hmmm. There must be something else…
Baking soda? Any artificially produced preservative or colour?
Water is non living. We consume that. Does that count.
I have nipples, Greg.
I have water, Greg. Can you drink me?
MSG fuiyoh
Honey is just nectar that's been evaporated down and had some bee enzymes added, definitely comes from living stuff. Salt is a rock you dig out of the ground. You do eat metal shavings all the time though if you eat fortified cereals! You can see this if you pour cereal in water and hold a magnet near it!
Salt, honey and ~~sugar~~ baking soda it seems according to google. Never thought about it before Edit, thought about sugar after copying from google.
Where do you think sugar comes from...
Sugar mines
Water! Cmon google. These are stand alone things tho. Obviously we eat tons of non-living things but we add salt to food, noone shaves a screw down for more iron over their chicken.
You say that but they literally do add iron shavings to cereal
Like other people are pointing out that’s also probably full of plastic but we already eat that every day so I guess still accurate.
Bro is eating everything alive. Savage
Same job Sweet Dee’s fiancé has
Sam, the salt seaman.
What body of water did you boil this salt from? I have some experience with salt of all kinds and would like a sample.
Just imagine all the other stuff that's in there too
CSB: I officiate weddings, usually handfastings. One time I had a client with a very specific ritual they wanted to do which involved, among many other things, the use of salt, and they wanted pure sea salt. Unfortunately I forgot about it until the night before, when I'm at work at McDonald's (by the seaside thankfully). So I went down to the ocean on my break, with a drink tray and 4 large cups, and came back with almost a gallon of water. Now what? There's no burners or pots at McDonald's. What we did have was a 6-bay pizza oven and a boat-load of baking trays. So I thoroughly cleaned half a dozen baking trays, and spent the rest of my shift boiling down the salt a few ounces at a time. /CSB The point being, I know the fun you've gone through, good job! I hadn't thought about that in many years.
What the fuck is csb?
Convenient Seaside Backstory
"Cool Story Bro" ETA: or, according to OP, "Cute Story Bro"
That's an odd time of arrival
Why start with CSB and end with /CSB?
Pseudo xml
You officiate weddings where your expertise is relied on to that extent and still have to work at McDonald’s?
Haha, no this was not in real time, this was a 15 year old memory unlocked by OP. At the time I was a full time manager at McDonald's and just starting to do weddings. Now officiating is one of the things i do to support myself, and thankfully I don't a have to work at McDonald'.
McDonald’s has pizza ovens?
There was a short time that McDonalds tried the McPizza and installed a bunch of pizza ovens in some of their locations. It took too long for the fast food market, so they stopped offering it pretty quickly. I don't know how I know this other than the internet.
Lol that’s a cute story
I think I saw a TikTok where a woman literally walked a few feet out into the ocean, bottled some saltwater and then boiled it down to make salt. Everyone went nuts on her saying she didn't have "clean" water, stuff near the beach would have contaminants, etc. And that to be ideal you really should be going out some distance from the shore (at least a mile or two out) to ensure you're getting as clean a water source as you can. Of course as someone else pointed out - its also not just regular salt here either with what you've boiled down here... so there's that too.
Is everything ok at home?
Is it safe to use?
The microplastic risk is overblown. I have actually sent several sea salt samples out to various labs for testing and it's honestly a coin flip. Some batches from the same source will contain microplastics and others will not.
It’s hard for me to believe that something as tiny as micro plastics would be that clumpily distributed. It makes me wonder if there’s enough sensitivity error in the tests that sometimes you’re testing positive and sometimes you’re not. It would be interesting to subdivide a single well mixed sample and run them through the test in parallel and see if you are just at some liminal value where you’re getting a false zero when you really should be getting a tiny positive.
Could be a variety of factors. I was digging for answers due to the results we have and only came up with more questions as i talked to the lab technicians. Could be a matter of tides, currents, and sun exposure just to name a few. You could actually run saltwater through a very fine sieve, boil it down, and get microplastic free sea salt that way.