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Making your own sea salt

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  • 08-10-2011 8:03pm
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    Corsendonk
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    Has anyone done this? An essential skill if you wish to preserve your food stocks.


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    Delancey
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    No , never done it . Forgive my ( possible ) ignorance but is it not a case of boiling sea water until it has evaporated leaving a salt residue ?


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    Corsendonk
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    Well the traditional method is solar drying. Filtered seawater is dried in beds like this below.

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    I suppose you could boil.


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    Stinicker
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    Given Ireland's inclement weather and with the alternative being the cost of fuel needed for evaporating the water it would be probably be cheaper to buy and stockpile salt rather than try and make your own, although in a Mad Max world Salt could be the currency, I'd have more faith in it than the shaky Euro.


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    sidders
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    works perfectly i did uit in college ,

    had steak and boiled salt for dinner that night aswell


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    Grizzly 45
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    In the old days,with your peat fire going near enough 24/7 for the cooking or heating etc.folks near the coast just kept a skillet or pot full of sea water brine evaporating by the fire to provide the household salt.
    Trick is find a free enough heat source and plenty of seawater.

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    Rhinocharge
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    Excellent source available here :)


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    ger vallely
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    The old man in The Old Man and The Sea did this by pouring some sea water into his boat and allowing it to evaporate. Then again he lived in a hot climate.


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    wild_cat
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    I haven't tried it, but it looks fairly easy.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdnkG8wGNwM


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    Dude111
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    Thank you for that,does l00k easy!


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    Tabnabs
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    Dragging up an old thread I know, but useful to stick all this info together.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057156289

    Someone on the cooking forum has done it relatively easily.


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