Enjoyed this very much. Thanks! How did the local Native Americans historically get salt? Did they have a salt trade of any kind? Would be interested in that story if possible.
I made salt from seawater once on a stovetop. You just need to 'harvest' it from the water at the right time as the crystals are forming, like the guy from Jacobsen says. Otherwise it re-dissolves and becomes a grey mush like the historical reenactment.
He has to go check it every day. It's on public property and you can't put up a private fence or anything like that. You always check your gear before starting up for the day but in this case there's a double need - nothing privately owned can be built there and even if it could it couldn't be secured physically anyhow. 🙂 The entire Oregon Coast is public property - in fact, public access is required by law at regular intervals, which is why you observe so many places to get down to the ocean (even if hundreds of vertical feet of stairs need to be built) and why there are so many full featured campgrounds, state and national parks, and locations where the public can harvest their own food along the entire length without having to set foot in a boat.
For the reenactment guys fyi the main step you're missing is to transfer the water after it boils down to another vat after it cools below 110f then reheating to 150f and the salt will grow on the surface and not be grey full of calcium
That was sort of disappointing. When I read "Centuries of salt making", I thought you would at least touch on indigenous methods of producing salt. It was definitely a hot trade commodity for this region.
We once traveled to an island in the Dutch Antilles where they harvested salt from salt marshes there. Flocks of Caribbean flamingos 🦩 eating the brine shrimp that live in the salty shallow marshlands. Slaves were brought there to do the hard labor and their huts, tiny huts made from adobe. Just barely big enough for a person to crawl in and curl up. They kind of looked like igloo shape.
I want to give a shout out to The Mendocino Sea Salt Company located in Point Arena ,California. They went out up to 20 miles offshore to collect their seawater Best ever smoked salt evar!!
I was wondering the coast one day and saw salt in a dried hole. A month later I was done there with my girlfriend and a pot and a rocket stove. I made mine into a seasoned salt and we eat it on everything.
I used to buy Maldon salt. Now I only use rock salt. I have a grinder with Himalayan salt which was sea salt 200-300 million years ago. Ergo, no microplastics or nuclear fallout.
Its really too bad their gift shop was closed this last Monday, Tuesday and possibly more... i went out camping at cape lookout and wanted to to buy some salt but the gift shop was closed...sad.
I keep meaning to drive up to Netarts and buy some salt from them directly. Gotta grab me some fresh cheese and the Tillamook Cheese Factory as well! It's been awhile since I was last there. Living in Newport my whole life, I really don't have a good excuse for not just driving up there. Maybe when school is back in and the tourism calms down a bit. Every drive I've ever been on along our coastline is amazing. Whether it's a fall/winter storm, or a beautifully sunny day, or even at night (especially with a full moon, the ocean glistens with phytoplankton), it's always a great drive/journey!
@@nathankoroush7918 No, it is not in the mined salt from land. I stopped buying or using all sea salt after the Japanese released their "safe" water (that they should have been made to drink in the Tokyo municipal water supply because they said it is "safe").
@@davidb2206 This isn't how mercury exposure works. you're missing the important piece called "bioaccumulation." methylmercury is what is harmful to humans, not metallic mercury. it isn't really found in seawater, it accumulates up the food chain to fish, starting with bacteria that feed on metallic mercury and produce methylmercury. Methylmercury won't show up in sea salt, only large fish (and maybe rice - but that's another story that's still unfolding). And the Fukushima disaster has been studied to death from the spike in funding research that resulted from American public panic - it has no health impacts outside Japan. Until the '90s, the largest agricultural producers in the U.S. and big tobacco companies, would amend soils with "municipal sludge" which is exactly what it sounds like and was usually rich in heavy metals. Corn and onions don't take up much metals from the soil, but tobacco soaks them up like a sponge. Tobacco farms outside the U.S. still use municipal sludge, and almost all tobacco consumed in the U.S. is imported. Your concerns about exposure to pollutants are well founded but I think you'll benefit from a more scientific approach. there are great lectures from scientists working in the field, you can find them on TH-cam, it's not all locked behind a paywall in the ivory tower of science.
@@jessebarlow1277 On the FDA's website are the results of their regular testing of fish. ALL of the game fish contain mercury. Cadmium has been found in both coffee and chocolate to such a level that California has now passed a labeling law and demands testing for it. THAT is science, my friend.
@@johnransom1146 Aloha. My parents and I used to make our own syrup in Ohio. We’d tap a tree, add a bucket, check twice a day, build a fire, big ass pot, continually add liquid, reduce to syrup, voila maple syrup! Time consuming, yes. Worth it? Also yes. The only similarities is heat for reduction.
@@johnransom1146 Aloha. You made a comparison between the two techniques. You asked whether I had ever made either. You called me a chump. You could be from Timbuktu for all I know.
Yeah. All you need to do is leave the right material in the right place, and nature will reward you with pure icelike crystals every year you return for harvest. Some folks are in just too much of a rush.
Jacobsen Salt Co is amazing! We appreciate that they care about protecting our marine ecosystems.
My folks and I enjoy Jacobsen Salt Company, and I was intrigued to learn about the mechanisms behind their luxurious sea salts. :)
Learn something new every day thank you ALL stay safe
Wow! I truly enjoyed this. ✨
The best naps of my lifetime occur while I watch documentaries of salt and I love me some salt
I love naps I take a lot of them now that I'm 65 years old I think I'll take one right now
Enjoyed this very much. Thanks! How did the local Native Americans historically get salt? Did they have a salt trade of any kind? Would be interested in that story if possible.
This is fascinating!
salt crystals are beautiful, I'm jealous of the lady who really loves the craft of what she does ❤
Is there no salt where you live? Jealousy is a silly choice.
I made salt from seawater once on a stovetop. You just need to 'harvest' it from the water at the right time as the crystals are forming, like the guy from Jacobsen says. Otherwise it re-dissolves and becomes a grey mush like the historical reenactment.
So cool 💯
I came here to watch water boil.
I was not disapointed.
Thank you for the excellent program. Really enjoyed the contrasting historical and modern storylines. Great perspectives.
Thank you 🙏
He has to go check it every day. It's on public property and you can't put up a private fence or anything like that. You always check your gear before starting up for the day but in this case there's a double need - nothing privately owned can be built there and even if it could it couldn't be secured physically anyhow.
🙂
The entire Oregon Coast is public property - in fact, public access is required by law at regular intervals, which is why you observe so many places to get down to the ocean (even if hundreds of vertical feet of stairs need to be built) and why there are so many full featured campgrounds, state and national parks, and locations where the public can harvest their own food along the entire length without having to set foot in a boat.
There is no safe food in the ocean anymore. Mercury, radiation, PFAS and tons of plastics daily from China. The stuff will end your life, prematurely.
And OPB has a video on it!
For the reenactment guys fyi the main step you're missing is to transfer the water after it boils down to another vat after it cools below 110f then reheating to 150f and the salt will grow on the surface and not be grey full of calcium
Is the water tested for pollution?
That was sort of disappointing. When I read "Centuries of salt making", I thought you would at least touch on indigenous methods of producing salt. It was definitely a hot trade commodity for this region.
Are they using the leftover water for potable or unpotable water?
Or using it in some other beneficial way?
That's cool.
We once traveled to an island in the Dutch Antilles where they harvested salt from salt marshes there. Flocks of Caribbean flamingos 🦩 eating the brine shrimp that live in the salty shallow marshlands. Slaves were brought there to do the hard labor and their huts, tiny huts made from adobe. Just barely big enough for a person to crawl in and curl up. They kind of looked like igloo shape.
I want to give a shout out to The Mendocino Sea Salt Company located in Point Arena ,California. They went out up to 20 miles offshore to collect their seawater
Best ever smoked salt evar!!
Why would they rinse it off to take out the minerals?
Oh my, i have been looking for flake salt for months now. Its harder to find then you think.
I was wondering the coast one day and saw salt in a dried hole. A month later I was done there with my girlfriend and a pot and a rocket stove. I made mine into a seasoned salt and we eat it on everything.
Wouldn’t the copper make it poisonous? I heard when using copper pots you have to be careful not to cook something that leeches the copper.
I used to buy Maldon salt. Now I only use rock salt. I have a grinder with Himalayan salt which was sea salt 200-300 million years ago. Ergo, no microplastics or nuclear fallout.
Its really too bad their gift shop was closed this last Monday, Tuesday and possibly more... i went out camping at cape lookout and wanted to to buy some salt but the gift shop was closed...sad.
I saw Oregon and a picture of some white crystals and salt was not what first came to mind.
In Europe there are salt beds by the Mediterranean.
Historically, salt is made by air drying not boiling.
Evaporation.
Watch how they do it in MX and S. America!
I keep meaning to drive up to Netarts and buy some salt from them directly. Gotta grab me some fresh cheese and the Tillamook Cheese Factory as well! It's been awhile since I was last there. Living in Newport my whole life, I really don't have a good excuse for not just driving up there. Maybe when school is back in and the tourism calms down a bit. Every drive I've ever been on along our coastline is amazing. Whether it's a fall/winter storm, or a beautifully sunny day, or even at night (especially with a full moon, the ocean glistens with phytoplankton), it's always a great drive/journey!
"Pure clean edible salt":
From the ocean?!?!
Pay attention!!!
Sure there is plastic in the salt.
My new favorite vocalist: Saline-a Gomez
What about the MERCURY, Fukushima radiation, and other contaminants in the sea today?
I was thinking the same thing, guess it doesn't matter anyways it is everywhere.
@@nathankoroush7918 No, it is not in the mined salt from land. I stopped buying or using all sea salt after the Japanese released their "safe" water (that they should have been made to drink in the Tokyo municipal water supply because they said it is "safe").
@@davidb2206 This isn't how mercury exposure works. you're missing the important piece called "bioaccumulation." methylmercury is what is harmful to humans, not metallic mercury. it isn't really found in seawater, it accumulates up the food chain to fish, starting with bacteria that feed on metallic mercury and produce methylmercury. Methylmercury won't show up in sea salt, only large fish (and maybe rice - but that's another story that's still unfolding). And the Fukushima disaster has been studied to death from the spike in funding research that resulted from American public panic - it has no health impacts outside Japan. Until the '90s, the largest agricultural producers in the U.S. and big tobacco companies, would amend soils with "municipal sludge" which is exactly what it sounds like and was usually rich in heavy metals. Corn and onions don't take up much metals from the soil, but tobacco soaks them up like a sponge. Tobacco farms outside the U.S. still use municipal sludge, and almost all tobacco consumed in the U.S. is imported. Your concerns about exposure to pollutants are well founded but I think you'll benefit from a more scientific approach. there are great lectures from scientists working in the field, you can find them on TH-cam, it's not all locked behind a paywall in the ivory tower of science.
@@jessebarlow1277 On the FDA's website are the results of their regular testing of fish. ALL of the game fish contain mercury.
Cadmium has been found in both coffee and chocolate to such a level that California has now passed a labeling law and demands testing for it.
THAT is science, my friend.
@@davidb2206 yeah that's what i'm saying, it's in the fish, not the water and the salt.
A lot like making maple sugar
Aloha. Completely different beast.
@@adamyoung480 you evaporate maple syrup to get the solid sugar. This is exactly the same chump. Have you made either
@@johnransom1146 Aloha. My parents and I used to make our own syrup in Ohio. We’d tap a tree, add a bucket, check twice a day, build a fire, big ass pot, continually add liquid, reduce to syrup, voila maple syrup! Time consuming, yes. Worth it? Also yes. The only similarities is heat for reduction.
@@adamyoung480 you’re mansplaining that to a Canadian?
@@johnransom1146 Aloha. You made a comparison between the two techniques. You asked whether I had ever made either. You called me a chump. You could be from Timbuktu for all I know.
Microplastic salt
You can't make salt . You can harvest it you can collect it you can gather it . All the filter is has already been made .
Micro Plastics.
what a waist of money
Yeah. All you need to do is leave the right material in the right place, and nature will reward you with pure icelike crystals every year you return for harvest. Some folks are in just too much of a rush.
Waste
@@snapperboat25of a human mind.