This process is still used in Africa. It makes an impure version of potassium chloride, which tastes salty, but is not table salt which is sodium chloride. As he showed, it also makes an excellent fertilizer.
I am a novice... I am very unfamiliar with which container has what step of the containers are in.. (i.e. which is skimmed overflow or salt derivative skimmed to preserve for the next step?) If anyone had a better video as to the exact steps from wood ash to salt derivative, that would be great!
Yes, it is potash (or wood potassium salts). Salt for curing meat/fish, leaching water through for making alkaline lye water into ultimate lye, and making lye soap, ...
depends on the source of the ashes. some ashes give "salty" salts instead of alkaline salts (e.g. potash) www.theoldfoodie.com/2012/01/salt-from-ashes.html
To explain uric acid crystals are treated with potassium salts to make saltpeter. It's a long slow process but anyone can easily do it. It's really the nitrates that are the important part. Most explosives are based on nitrogen compounds. I grew up in the midwest and any pharmacy carries saltpeter. It was mostly used to treat animals for digestive issues. A hundred years ago it was commonly used for humans as well. Just mix the right proportions of sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter for gunpowder. The mixture will just burn fast. For gunpowder you need an extra step, mix with water and allow it to dry and form crystals for proper gunpowder. They usually run it through metal rollers to break up the crystals to different sizes. Large crystals for coarse rifle powder. small ones for pistol and primer powder, primer being the finest.
Thank you so much I have been searching for a solution to the problem concerning getting salt without mining or getting it from the ocean, for months now. Thank you soooooooo much
just a quick google search and I found this tid bit of information. For those who are ranting about it being salt, Lye or what ever else they are saying this is. "An impure salt is made widely in North Africa, from wood-ashes. They are put into a pot, hot water is poured over them and allowed to stand and dissolve out the salts they contain; the ley is then decanted into another pot, where it is evaporated. The plants in use are those of which the wetted ashes have a saline and not an alkaline taste, nor a soapy feel."
then wouldnt that be the problem of the person who tried to follow this video? This channel is only here to provide a basic idea. If someone wanted to learn true survival, then they need to go out and find an actual survival teacher.
@@RdNkJim There is another primitive channel where the Asian produces articles for his website, it is very interesting because it becomes much easier to reproduce. I believe that this boy will do the same thing as John Plant, will write a book.
Glad to see that he's preparing his Cassavas a little more carefully. I was worried that he'd die from acute cyanide poisoning one of these days. But now he's going around eating potash. This dude likes to live on the edge.
The ashes contains salts, adding water to the ashes will turn the salts into ions, which would allow you to separate the ash from the salt (aqueous form). Then you’ll evaporate the water and you’ll be left with the salt.
I am aware that leaching ash through water produces lye, a potent concentration of potassium salts which, excuse my lack of knowledge in chemical science, is caustic. Yet, is a slight consumption of ash a lesser harm, such as when ash clings to your food over a campfire and there is a *salty*, smoky taste?
Yeah I guess people are just concerned with teaching people about messing around with things that involve toxic lye that if ingested could lead to massive damage or death. but hey guess chemistry knowledge comes in handy.
I'm lucky that I live ten minutes away from a grocery store with thousands of products from all over the world. I am also lucky to have a steady stream of income to buy them with. Say what you will, I for one enjoy the blessings of civilization.
You know your smash grinder. You should make it vertical and use string to loop horizontally for continuous rotative grinding force. Les energy will be spent and it will be fast and easier to use
Actually, ash contains lye AND baking soda -- at least North American ashes do. My understanding is that white ash is more heavily on the baking soda end. I don't understand how/if he got rid of these two chemicals (both would change with something acidic) but would not necessarily make a sodium/potassium chloride "salt".
Theoretically, yes, any ash. Practically, you want to wet the ash slightly and give it a taste test. If it doesn't taste (and feels) soapy and has a saline rather then a alkaline taste it is good to use.
you know thats how you turn wood into nickle........ couple more tries and I'll have that recipe down........ think i added store bought salt instead of your method was my error....... lye and charcoal make primitive metal...(hence the slang wooden nickle).... also I am working on my second silvertree....... similar recipe....... love this channel...... THE PHAROAH
Is lye edible? He didn't die. Lol I watched a primitive soap making vid and somehow got here. The guy before definitely made lye with this method. If it's edible and you can make soap from ashes that's badass.
Now we can keep are electrolytes up. Without them even one day with salt water you without food well go crazy and feel fatigue..if u have salt water to drink in survival u well feel less need to eat. Most fast suffering are not lack of food but lack of salt water- electrolytes and magnesium
это карбонат калия (поташ) (K₂CO₃) - его нельзя употреблять постоянно. ОН накапливается в организме и является причиной холестерина и закупорки сосудов.
С чего бы это он накапливался? Обычный себе К(+) и обычный себе CO3(2-), которые вполне родные ионы для организма. А ещё там хлориды и сульфаты, втч и натриевые. А вот солевой баланс K/Na экстракт золы может попортить, особенно если строго растительной пищей питаться (когда и так баланс в сторону К перекошен). В некоторых случаях (весьма редких) острой нехватки соли, лучше хоть так, чем болячки от натриевого дефицита заработать Но из золы вполне можно и NaCl добыть - поиграться температурами растворов при упаривании и высадить разные соли по-отдельности. А вообще-то в золе некоторых растений как раз NaCl дофига, так что даже простой метод вполне может работать. Х.з., может в видео как раз такая местность и такие растения.
If you had a clay tile over that steam you could create a primative distillation steam collector. Well I mean with dirty water not sodium chloride, or what ever that is.lol
Most of the poisons you are talking about are alkaloids and high temperatures break them down leaving mostly carbon. Toxic metals don;t break down just organic chemicals. Now the smoke while they are being heated can be very toxic like Oleander.
I think if I were to need any of this. I'd end up with a half assed shelter. Probably starving and dehydrated. More than likely forget where my shelter is. And die of something stupid like stepping on a snake I didn't see. Or from an infection from splinters, building the shelter...
It depends on the wood what kind of minerals are in their ashes. Typically there is a lot more potassium bicarbonate and hydroxide in ashes. The wood he uses might have some chloride in there, which is what makes salt taste salty. It's not a good idea to try this yourself unless you know what kind of minerals are in the ashes.
Potassium chloride does indeed taste salty. It does taste slightly different, but salty nonetheless. I don't suggest actually eating it though. They don't use it in lethal injections because it's so good for you. It won't kill you if you don't eat more than a few grams, but best to just stay away from it.
Ill like the content on your channel but I dont think wood ash is ok to consume. It doesnt contain sodium or even potassium chloride that we consume as 'salt'. Its mainly carbonates and oxides of calcium, magnesium and potassium and varies from the type of wood used.
The 1rst boiling recombines the carbonates and precipitates them, hence throwing away as fertilizer, the 2nd boiling of the solution he got from decanting results in potassium chloride. This is if he used hardwood for the ashes, contents may vary on the types of wood, but you can test it by tasting the ash itself, if it's salty you're good to go.
He made lye powder and is eating it... Rest in spaghetti nevar forgetti But in all seriousness its just a translation error guys, low yield lye is bad for you sure, but its not lethal in small doses like he had. I'd use it to make soap personally but to each their own i suppose.
Google: Is it safe to use potassium chloride instead of salt? Potassium chloride is a healthful salt substitute that can be used by food companies that want to obtain lower levels of sodium in the processed foods they make
wood ash still contained certain type of minerals.salt contained a lots type of minerals or combined minerals.actually salt is not only contained sodium cloride.
Why would you not use the potash to make concrete that’s a waste when you could just you rock salts which would actually have elemental salt not potassium cloxide salts unless your making this not for food but for your plants then this is ok but still there is a better replacement for that for any use you have that could be gotten just as easy
Parker Darker Hehe that's some weird semantics you've got there!!! Just curious, what do you mean by elemental salt? Just teasing. Potassium chloride is a long used salt for millennia in Europe, Asia and later America and Africa, this process is used for different crafts, like soaps, and is a byproduct of the daily burn of wood for cooking and water purification, if you have it you use it, and yes roman concrete is one of them. 😉
I think he did right because he ate it and it's not his last video so... This guy is awesome 🙌
This process is still used in Africa. It makes an impure version of potassium chloride, which tastes salty, but is not table salt which is sodium chloride. As he showed, it also makes an excellent fertilizer.
Salt the earth must have a very different meaning there
I am a novice... I am very unfamiliar with which container has what step of the containers are in.. (i.e. which is skimmed overflow or salt derivative skimmed to preserve for the next step?) If anyone had a better video as to the exact steps from wood ash to salt derivative, that would be great!
health wise does it make a difference? People need actual salt dont they
Yes, it is potash (or wood potassium salts). Salt for curing meat/fish, leaching water through for making alkaline lye water into ultimate lye, and making lye soap, ...
John Lord you know your shit bro
and poptassium nitrate (for 1 of 3 parts) black gunpowder ...
depends on the source of the ashes. some ashes give "salty" salts instead of alkaline salts (e.g. potash) www.theoldfoodie.com/2012/01/salt-from-ashes.html
I was thinking that the whole time. It's interesting that the amount of lye vs salt can be different.
To explain uric acid crystals are treated with potassium salts to make saltpeter. It's a long slow process but anyone can easily do it. It's really the nitrates that are the important part. Most explosives are based on nitrogen compounds. I grew up in the midwest and any pharmacy carries saltpeter. It was mostly used to treat animals for digestive issues. A hundred years ago it was commonly used for humans as well. Just mix the right proportions of sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter for gunpowder. The mixture will just burn fast. For gunpowder you need an extra step, mix with water and allow it to dry and form crystals for proper gunpowder. They usually run it through metal rollers to break up the crystals to different sizes. Large crystals for coarse rifle powder. small ones for pistol and primer powder, primer being the finest.
Thank you so much I have been searching for a solution to the problem concerning getting salt without mining or getting it from the ocean, for months now. Thank you soooooooo much
I really doubt it's sodium chloride though. That's most likely potash. It's probably still good for you in small doses but not the same thing.
Did you ever figure out how to acquire it?
just a quick google search and I found this tid bit of information. For those who are ranting about it being salt, Lye or what ever else they are saying this is.
"An impure salt is made widely in North Africa, from wood-ashes. They are put into a pot, hot water is poured over them and allowed to stand and dissolve out the salts they contain; the ley is then decanted into another pot, where it is evaporated. The plants in use are those of which the wetted ashes have a saline and not an alkaline taste, nor a soapy feel."
then wouldnt that be the problem of the person who tried to follow this video? This channel is only here to provide a basic idea. If someone wanted to learn true survival, then they need to go out and find an actual survival teacher.
I would yes, iv said to others I would defo need a second opinion before trying this but dont beleive all would do that
basically its like looking up the ingredients for a cake, then assuming you can make it too.
@@RdNkJim There is another primitive channel where the Asian produces articles for his website, it is very interesting because it becomes much easier to reproduce. I believe that this boy will do the same thing as John Plant, will write a book.
Thanks for the info!
Thank you for sharing the idea to make salt. Very interesting... And it will be a great help in case of a desperate situation.
and what desperate situation would warrant needing to make salt exactly? a process that involves heavily processing large amounts of ash...?
Glad to see that he's preparing his Cassavas a little more carefully. I was worried that he'd die from acute cyanide poisoning one of these days. But now he's going around eating potash. This dude likes to live on the edge.
Is this salt safe to eat on long term usage ?
excellent work. your patience is unbelievable
How cozy does he look, his dinner and an open fire, perfect
재의 주성분은 칼륨, 나트륨이긴 할텐데.. 염소는 어디에서 온다는건지 모르겠네요.
염소가 공기중에 있는 것도 아니고 말이죠.
그냥 소금처럼 보이고 소금 맛이 나는 무기 혼합물 같네요.
What are those roots that you boiled and ate?
@Dazzy Bakemono called....? Cassava root?
very useful specially for those who live far from ocean
Is this real NaCl or it just tastes like salt?
This is mostly potassium chloride tho, right?
It's potassium Nitrate
& i watched 2-3 times but still i don't get how you do
potasium hydroxide
The ashes contains salts, adding water to the ashes will turn the salts into ions, which would allow you to separate the ash from the salt (aqueous form). Then you’ll evaporate the water and you’ll be left with the salt.
Nice! But I could not understand very well. What about some subs ginving tips?
but then he wouldnt be a direct copy cat of primitive technology...cant have that.
@@CircmcisionIsChi1dAbus3 but primitive technology have subs in em tho
where did come from the brown bowl? it s kinda different from the others.
I am aware that leaching ash through water produces lye, a potent concentration of potassium salts which, excuse my lack of knowledge in chemical science, is caustic. Yet, is a slight consumption of ash a lesser harm, such as when ash clings to your food over a campfire and there is a *salty*, smoky taste?
Ashes and water make lye right?
yeah. I get the distinct feeling that this video may not be genuine.
Huh. Guess it is a thing. Mark me wrong on that one.
Man you got a helluva set-up. This is maybe a silly question, but do you own that land? (Lol)
I wondered the same thing. Maybe the person filming does?
Dang can we get some instructions?
Everybody on here tryin to sound smart but all they no is high school chem 😂😂 love your channel bro it's the best
Yeah I guess people are just concerned with teaching people about messing around with things that involve toxic lye that if ingested could lead to massive damage or death. but hey guess chemistry knowledge comes in handy.
Thank you so much!❤
I am lucky that I live 300 meters from the Pacific Ocean. I can collect salt in summer or dry it from seawater in winter.
im lucky that i live in the city
paper_clips congrats! That's in the spirit of living off the land! Well done!
I'm lucky that I live ten minutes away from a grocery store with thousands of products from all over the world. I am also lucky to have a steady stream of income to buy them with. Say what you will, I for one enjoy the blessings of civilization.
i am lucky that my grand parents own a farm and i can harvest bananas bamboo sweet potatoes coconuts jackfruits and sugar cane yum (i love farm life)
That is very lucky for you. I assume, however, that you still want to enjoy the benefits of civilization such as electricity and modern health are.
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And this new pot with different color. It looks like just from the store.
You know your smash grinder. You should make it vertical and use string to loop horizontally for continuous rotative grinding force. Les energy will be spent and it will be fast and easier to use
i don't know what to so, no guide for making salt in the forest here,,
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Isn't It poisonous in a long time?
Your axsom I'm just a kid wanting to learn survival you are the way
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So it is just boiled down lye water? Interesting.
Do u really live there in your village that you built?
That was interesting. I didn't know wood ashes had salt in them. Can any ash be used?
Ashira Guyness its called lye not salt
Actually, ash contains lye AND baking soda -- at least North American ashes do. My understanding is that white ash is more heavily on the baking soda end. I don't understand how/if he got rid of these two chemicals (both would change with something acidic) but would not necessarily make a sodium/potassium chloride "salt".
Theoretically, yes, any ash. Practically, you want to wet the ash slightly and give it a taste test. If it doesn't taste (and feels) soapy and has a saline rather then a alkaline taste it is good to use.
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as an asian, I have never known bamboo can peal cassava(?) BTW you're so amazing!
Without having some idea of what's going on beforehand, I wouldn't know what I just watched.
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Good Video
Wow this is real?.
you know thats how you turn wood into nickle........ couple more tries and I'll have that recipe down........ think i added store bought salt instead of your method was my error....... lye and charcoal make primitive metal...(hence the slang wooden nickle).... also I am working on my second silvertree....... similar recipe....... love this channel......
THE PHAROAH
wut.
Amazing
I thought that ash water made lye ?
very interesting~!
always thank you for watching primitive life~
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Já tem o sal, só falta a picanha!
I'm not a chemist, but I would expect that process to produce caustic lye, not an edible salt.
Apparently you also get potassium chloride - that has a salty taste. I'd be curious to know the proportions. Maybe less lye with soft-wood?
Yes, i beleve a hardwood is best used to produce lye.
Id have to get a second opiniun about this, if you do incorrectly you could land up eating lye and thats deadly
Is lye edible? He didn't die. Lol I watched a primitive soap making vid and somehow got here. The guy before definitely made lye with this method. If it's edible and you can make soap from ashes that's badass.
I Like It so much
did you have a haircut with a stone ax? I want to see it !!!
Now we can keep are electrolytes up. Without them even one day with salt water you without food well go crazy and feel fatigue..if u have salt water to drink in survival u well feel less need to eat. Most fast suffering are not lack of food but lack of salt water- electrolytes and magnesium
Yay for variety now he can have is cassava roasted, smashed and rock fried, or boiled
это карбонат калия (поташ) (K₂CO₃) - его нельзя употреблять постоянно. ОН накапливается в организме и является причиной холестерина и закупорки сосудов.
С чего бы это он накапливался? Обычный себе К(+) и обычный себе CO3(2-), которые вполне родные ионы для организма. А ещё там хлориды и сульфаты, втч и натриевые.
А вот солевой баланс K/Na экстракт золы может попортить, особенно если строго растительной пищей питаться (когда и так баланс в сторону К перекошен).
В некоторых случаях (весьма редких) острой нехватки соли, лучше хоть так, чем болячки от натриевого дефицита заработать
Но из золы вполне можно и NaCl добыть - поиграться температурами растворов при упаривании и высадить разные соли по-отдельности.
А вообще-то в золе некоторых растений как раз NaCl дофига, так что даже простой метод вполне может работать. Х.з., может в видео как раз такая местность и такие растения.
good information as usual
Salt is hardiest things you can get in the forest
This is actually potassium, potash+ium= potassium. Nice to know that it's can be used as a salt 👍
А что он приготовил? Это картофель такой необычный?
Kira Volkova батат, а из золы выварил соль.
поташ он выварил. его нельзя есть постоянно.
awesome video, man! Thanks!
Consuming nitrates, especially in the quantities shown has been linked to cancer. The video title is also fairly misleading
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If you had a clay tile over that steam you could create a primative distillation steam collector. Well I mean with dirty water not sodium chloride, or what ever that is.lol
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That's definitely going to be a mixture of potassium hydroxide and potassium carbonate
I wonder, since there are quite a few plants and such that are poisonous, can you be poisoned by using this salt made from the ashes?
Most of the poisons you are talking about are alkaloids and high temperatures break them down leaving mostly carbon. Toxic metals don;t break down just organic chemicals. Now the smoke while they are being heated can be very toxic like Oleander.
Thanks!
Is the wood Ash used to dry it so you can scrape it out if the pot easier?
поташ в качестве соли? орригинально!
The only thing that is not primitive here:his pants..😂😂
Tomislav Jelinčić The camera too --- sorry, had to lol
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Bokarusus good idea 😂😂
Add his new haircut hahahaha
Is TH-cam not Pornhub.
А куда дели тощего? Он его съел, что ли?
good video bro
I think if I were to need any of this. I'd end up with a half assed shelter. Probably starving and dehydrated. More than likely forget where my shelter is. And die of something stupid like stepping on a snake I didn't see. Or from an infection from splinters, building the shelter...
Why is he cooking ashes?
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He said that you could try making cloth/fabric
Great video... but, hmm, I guess you are sure about that "salt". Seasoning is not sooo easy all on your own.
yes
Turnip and earth?
Salt but not NaCl?
K₂CO₃
huh. didn't know you could get salt by leeching and distilling wood ashes. I take it there's no seawater around?
it may well be, but he's eatin' it like salt! I did a little digging apparently that's a thing. though Lye IS also made with wood ash...
It depends on the wood what kind of minerals are in their ashes. Typically there is a lot more potassium bicarbonate and hydroxide in ashes.
The wood he uses might have some chloride in there, which is what makes salt taste salty. It's not a good idea to try this yourself unless you know what kind of minerals are in the ashes.
huh. so does potassium chloride also taste salty? still, I think I'll stick to boiled seawater for my "wild salt"
Potassium chloride does indeed taste salty. It does taste slightly different, but salty nonetheless.
I don't suggest actually eating it though. They don't use it in lethal injections because it's so good for you. It won't kill you if you don't eat more than a few grams, but best to just stay away from it.
yeaaaaah, I'll stick with my good ol' NaCl thanks. kudos on the chemistry feedback.
Guy goes up in flames at 1:10
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He just made powdered lye and ate it. Wow! Don't believe everything you see on the internet guys. This could hurt in long term.
Is this sodium chloride?
christopher snedeker
Thank you for your reply.
I am thinking that this is potassium bicarbonate.
It's potassium carbonate, which is a type of salt.
Dan Severns
Strictly speaking, yes.
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Ill like the content on your channel but I dont think wood ash is ok to consume. It doesnt contain sodium or even potassium chloride that we consume as 'salt'. Its mainly carbonates and oxides of calcium, magnesium and potassium and varies from the type of wood used.
Potassium chloride is extracted from potash. I don't disagree with the rest of what you are saying, but you do get potassium chloride from potash.
The 1rst boiling recombines the carbonates and precipitates them, hence throwing away as fertilizer, the 2nd boiling of the solution he got from decanting results in potassium chloride. This is if he used hardwood for the ashes, contents may vary on the types of wood, but you can test it by tasting the ash itself, if it's salty you're good to go.
I dont think he has made the brown bowl
Martin Hellerud why not
look again in previous videos
He did
1.36 look how smooth the bowl is it cant be made, maybe i am wrong
Martin Hellerud i agree! That brown bowl is so perfect, different of the others!
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Make a stone knife
He made lye powder and is eating it...
Rest in spaghetti nevar forgetti
But in all seriousness its just a translation error guys, low yield lye is bad for you sure, but its not lethal in small doses like he had. I'd use it to make soap personally but to each their own i suppose.
Google: Is it safe to use potassium chloride instead of salt?
Potassium chloride is a healthful salt substitute that can be used by food companies that want to obtain lower levels of sodium in the processed foods they make
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Boiling wood ash? I would have expected him to get iie rather than salt.
Apparently it depends on the wood type.
Can any wood ash be used?
mrsillywalk yes
wood ash still contained certain type of minerals.salt contained a lots type of minerals or combined minerals.actually salt is not only contained sodium cloride.
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Why would you not use the potash to make concrete that’s a waste when you could just you rock salts which would actually have elemental salt not potassium cloxide salts unless your making this not for food but for your plants then this is ok but still there is a better replacement for that for any use you have that could be gotten just as easy
Parker Darker Hehe that's some weird semantics you've got there!!! Just curious, what do you mean by elemental salt? Just teasing. Potassium chloride is a long used salt for millennia in Europe, Asia and later America and Africa, this process is used for different crafts, like soaps, and is a byproduct of the daily burn of wood for cooking and water purification, if you have it you use it, and yes roman concrete is one of them. 😉
K2SO4、K2CO3、KCl
eidtable.
+ 5...15% Na(+) in almost any ash.
ask=NaCO3