How to make your own Sea Salt

I have been having problems with store bought salt, so I decided to make my own.

It was pretty easy!!

Here is where I got the idea:
http://thegastrognome.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/make-your-own-salt/

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• sea
• salt
• boiling

[olivermunn]

This is the most energy inefficient way of producing salt! Just leave your gallon of water outside in the sun for a few days and save yourself the stove and the oven...

[blarggstar]

@olivermunn Good idea. I did this in the Fall when there wasn't much sun out.

[Jakathera]

so... how do you know there aren't wicked bad chemicals in your salt from people who dump into the ocean? (serious question, not trying to be mean)

[blarggstar]

@Jakathera The Oregon coast is pretty clean so I don't worry about it. The water looked and smelled fresh and the salt tastes yummy!

[flamedrag18]

I know a even easier way, just take a black wash tub and fill with sea water, allow it to bake in the summer sun and wind for a few days, it'll evaporate the water and you'll have a nice bit of salt.

[blarggstar]

@flamedrag18 Easier if you have a black wash tub and somwhere to put it for few days. Haha. This amount of salt lasts me 6 - 8 months, I don't know what I do with gallons of it.

But this is good to know, thanks for the comment.

[givepropstotherich]

Eating cape cod potato chips with sea salt as i watched this :)

[KerriNel]

You might want to look up the water pollution in your area(most is too polluted!!!), air pollution, and most importantly understand that ocean water and some sea waters are high in methylmercury which can cause serious damage to the central nervous system including your brain.

Livestrong explains it’s best not to consume salt from ocean water because it is likely high in methylmercury in the article "Will mercury in sea salt harm health".

[daplet]

Well Yes! you can get salt out of the ocean but the way your doing it here is taking a lot of energy ,it would be cheaper just to buy salt.If you just leave it in something with a lot of surface area the energy will come from the sun with no cost to you.

[oscargortez]

@radziahradzi I would think the only real difference would be in how much salt a gallon produces.

[1rebelblood]

So when is the government going to start taxing us for the water we take out of the ocean to make salt? And thanks for the upload, u saved me a good buck!!!

[soumam]

I like the song

[000WOLFBANE000]

good info here thanx all

[jaclynj161]

This is my science expirement... but the steps are a teensy bit different........ But anyway, good job... blarggstar...

[angelcarnivore]

This a great idea, too, if you're a person who isn't normally near the ocean but vacationing... bring home a souvenir that lasts quite a while!

[radziahradzi]

do you think there will be differences between your sea salt and if i will make it as it is from different sea and sea from the side of our country, the color differs from your place (some that i have look at, there are some nice ones in Borneo but I haven't been there) or do you think it will be the same? I mean in the saltiness or something? lol just random thinking but I wonder...

[Jakathera]

@blarggstar Good stuff :)