It’s fairly late at night and the I was wondering how the process worked. You were short and sweet on the whole process and didn’t add anything unnecessary to the video. Simply amazing 10/10
I am so amazed at how resourceful you are. Sure wish we weren't separated by an ocean, I would so make a road trip. You are one very talented and unique person. thanks for sharing.
Desalination is an important survival skill when you’re on a deserted island in the middle of the ocean. Not only can boiling make sea water safe to drink, but the salt left behind could come in handy for many other survival uses.
I did the same thing here lately. I got 200 oz of water from the San Francisco bay and it came to 6 fl.oz. of salt. I went to San Diego and with the same 200 oz jug I got 12 fl. oz of sea salt. The last trip last week I drove by the Bonnaville Salt Flats and scraped up a couple bags of salt. I don't have a scale big enough but it looked to be a few lbs when dried up.
that is fantastic. I had no idea you could make your own sea salt. I do not live near the ocean and the ones here in Texas are near as clean as your's is. I will have to keep this in mind if I get near Mexico or California.
Deana Lynn Allen Rogers Hi Deana, you'll find it under the heading of coast bbc neil oliver. but I don't know which episode had the salt segment. however all of the episodes are very interesting.
You wouldn't be surprised if you've ever dipped your finger in sea water and placed it on your tongue. But remember, he only boiled it to get rid of the water, salt is a natural antibacterial agent and requires no cleaning.
That is awesome old mate. I just saw someone on channel 33 food network doing sea salt then googled it and found your video. I intend to do my own salt. Thanks for your video. David
Thanks for sharing this video with us. I thought it was hard to extract the salt from the sea since other people would get their big machines and other things, but this video really helped me, thanks man.
Next time just get a bunch of old milk bottles. Put a pin prick or two in the lid, put it on the roof of the shed. When the bottles are about half way down half the amount of bottles by pouring them into each other, rinse and repeat every few days. Eventually you'll have one 2L bottle of soupy brine. Pour it onto a large tray in the sun where no crap will fall on it and cover it with a sheet of muslin, cotton, or something very fine. Top it up with your super brine. Eventually you'll have a giant slab of salt. Hit it with a (clean - obviously - use the same precautions you would brewing to not contaminate it) hammer or stab it with a screwdriver and you've got free rock salt - no huge electricity bill. The real issue here is getting clean seawater. I'd always recommend using a filter. Even 30 miles out to sea there'd be a significant ppm of Indian, African and Asian poop, even though we're on the other side of the planet both of those regions shit the planet up so hard it crosses the globe.
Very Interesting... During the 1850'S their were still Indians here in Mobile Co Al. They would walk 30+ miles to the salt water of the Gulf with their clay pots : borrow wash pots from settlers to put water in & boil then scrape the salt into another & repeated. They would give some of the salt to the settlers for the use of their iron wash pots. Allen Town 1850'S Mobile Co. Alabama
Many thanks, with my first salt video I discovered that I got about 4% salt which turns out to be fairly right. So imagine how much salt would be left if all the oceans dried up.
very nice salt. i live near a place called salt pond on Kauai Hawaii they gather salt there. There is no water inlet but at the full moon tide the water level raises up through the clay then the sun dryer up the ponds leaving the salt. I talked to one old man he put salt water in a pan like you have in the sun he said it did not work. I saw a video of Thailand where they pot sea water in split bambo it seems to work.
Where we live it's rally hot in summer - 40 deg C for months on end. We collected an 8 litre bucket of sea water from the Mediterranean and strained it trhough cheesecloth doubled. Then we just set it on the porch till it got really sludgy (about a week) and then just boiled off the remaining water. Didn't take long at all. Then put it in a frying pan till it went all sparky. Do you think that it has to be really pure sea water in the first place - what with all the saltiness and then boiling.
Contamination in the seawater stays when you evaporate the water. That's why he collected it 30 miles out. But if you collect near shore, his suggestion sounds good, to avoid rainy days or areas with significant runoff like a river delta.
What a awesome video sir really cool That you shared That im a cook myself but never had seen it happen before i did know How i would be able to make it but never did it so thanks for showing !
What you can do with this salt is to enrich sea water salinity to max in a jar and produce electricity with it by two metal rods. Of course on the expense of the metal rods eventually.
That salt is not pure sodium chloride. What you have there is basically all the nonvolatile minerals dissolved in seawater, which is primarily sodium and magnesium chlorides. Since magnesium chloride absorbs water out of the air, the shelf life of the stuff you've made is limited. To increase purity, I recommend washing your salt with a small amount of boiling water, or stopping the crystallization right before its completely try to keep the magnesium in solution.
Great stuff and good advice! I'd also recommend not storing water in plastic bottles or containers as it leaches hormone altering chemicals into the water and its contents. I'd also recommend sun drying on sheets instead of grilling to dry as it can strip some of the natural minerals when heated directly, heated from below when on a tin would be better though sun dried is best!
I really wouldn't try this method because of the amount of electricity used to boil off all that water. Consider it may cost more in electricity than buying it at the store and where is that electricity coming from? Coal burning plants? Oil? Natural gas? You really want to use a large bed and allow the sun the evaporate most of the water. Also consider the other things in salt water. You may have avoid industrial chemical contaminants by boating further into the ocean but there are still naturally occurring toxic compounds in the water. Most of those potentially toxic compounds do not boil off, they mix in with the salt. Adding more water to the pan ads more of these toxic compounds and it essentially concentrates them. I would highly recommend purifying the salt by performance at least 2 steps of recrystallization. You will lose some of your salt but it's worth it for the peace of mind. Cheers.
I tried this with ocean water from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the eastern US. I wonder if salt from different oceans or even different areas of the same ocean tastes any different?
This is what they say. I have a relative who collects salt from different parts of the world. She gave me 5 different samples and they did taste and feel different from each other and from store-bought table and sea salt. This summer I plan to try making my own from the nearest beach. I've swallowed it a thousand times. Why not put a pinch in my soup?
@@TUKByV This is salt with Magnesium, Calcium and other Minerals from natural sources. Its one of the few sources of Magnesium that your body need very highly because the magnesium in most foods on land and near shore has been destroyed by sprays and chemicals such as Monsanto's poisons.
Yes I was thinking the same thing, what a waste of electricity. It's not like the salt is going to go bad sitting in the sun. It's interesting to see 1.5kg comes from 33L of water. I get Himalayan salt at the organic shop for $4/kg & Celtic for $7. The Celtic is grey so it has a lot of minerals.
Can you tell me whats the difference between the salt you got from boiled seawater and the salt you get the from supermarkets. Is there any difference and also taste ?
It's partly good for you because of the microscopic dead sea life and their decomposed(ing) poop provide extra minerals beyond sodium. Vegans shouldn't eat seasalt! lol. #trolling
It tastes like sea salt Like he said just don't do it if the water is really polluted How do you think they make salt? It's natural they just get it from the ocean and basically do this but on a industrial scale Probably wouldn't do it if the water is full of plastic and looks brown, basically if the jug looks somewhat clear it's good enough
We also make our own salt from the ocean we live in (Panama)... How do keep it from getting moist over time? That is the issue we have. Thanks for a great video!!
I live in UAE and always wanted to try this but the Persian gulf is the busiest waterway in the world and I'm afraid of pollution from ships and the numerous oil spills we have had in the past in the gulf. I like to try it anyway and see how it comes out. I can't go out to sea so can I just take it from the beach? Though I imagine there would be more contaminates closer to coast.
Because there are a lot of different salts of Magnesium, potassium, magnesium and sodium inside! But that is better of course then the pure tablesalt. It contains salts of all elements especially halogenic salts:
This is a really cool experiment ! But for everyone who lives near an ocean and wants to do this for themselves, I would advise not to use the salt on food. There are a lot of other contaminants that are being collected within the salt (including but not limited to: fish/animal waste, heavy metals, and every other piece of garbage that is disintegrating in the oceans). All of that is in the salt, and our kidneys can only process so much after a while. This may be cool for a body scrub though, IDK
Had i been visiting and saw that setup with the scale. U woulda found my passed out body on the ground holding a straw. But when i come to i'll be honest with ya. needs more b12 pwder, its still too pure......lol
G'day & thanks, it took a day & a half. It all happened while I was doing other things. I've had to put off an overseas holiday to pay for the electricity:( just kidding. cheers:)
You are actually supposed to just boil off most of the water NOT ALL and cool it down slowly and the supersaturated solution will start producing 100% pure crystal salt. Which you skim off the water and let drain and dry . Using this method you don't have all the trapped dead sea life and other minerals like calcium in your salt. You get a clearer product
Obviously pure calcium won't taste like salt, but this is UNREFINED sea salt, calcium is a nutrient, and calcium would be a trace mineral (is even present in tap water and improves flavor). So I guess it's a matter of preference, but seems to me you can't go wrong with a little extra naturally sourced calcium from nature?
I'm sure it's not the most economic way of getting salt. Sure, if you let it sun dry it will essentially be free. What you cannot put a price on is knowing you made it yourself and knowing that apart from what was already in the water there is no added chemicals, which is a win in my book. Great video bud
In a world where people are doing less and less for themselves, a video like this is certainly worth its salt! Thanks so much!
G'day Art, thank YOU!!!!:):)
You mean it is worth its weight in salt?
@@mannycaballero4370 does everything have to be confusing for u? He means what he says.
Yeah when those hily belies goes out to fish and gotten home but there was not salt crying poverty.
It’s fairly late at night and the I was wondering how the process worked. You were short and sweet on the whole process and didn’t add anything unnecessary to the video. Simply amazing 10/10
I am so amazed at how resourceful you are. Sure wish we weren't separated by an ocean, I would so make a road trip. You are one very talented and unique person. thanks for sharing.
G'day, your welcome, many thanks. I hope you can make it over here some time. cheers:)
Desalination is an important survival skill when you’re on a deserted island in the middle of the ocean. Not only can boiling make sea water safe to drink, but the salt left behind could come in handy for many other survival uses.
Also if you can catch the steam and have it condense in a seperate container you have clean drinking water
Very few vids about harvesting your own salt on TH-cam. Great info & you, my friend, are the salt of the earth. Thanks much!
jendracowyrm WOW, thank you:)
I did the same thing here lately. I got 200 oz of water from the San Francisco bay and it came to 6 fl.oz. of salt. I went to San Diego and with the same 200 oz jug I got 12 fl. oz of sea salt. The last trip last week I drove by the Bonnaville Salt Flats and scraped up a couple bags of salt. I don't have a scale big enough but it looked to be a few lbs when dried up.
Please tell us more about getting the salt from the Bonnaville Salt Flats. Thanks
looks good. Perfect on a nice bit of fish..
Thanks, yes, for sure:)
that is fantastic. I had no idea you could make your own sea salt. I do not live near the ocean and the ones here in Texas are near as clean as your's is. I will have to keep this in mind if I get near Mexico or California.
Deana Lynn Allen Rogers
Hi & thank you Deana, I got inspired after watching an episode of "Coast" on tv.
***** I need to see if I can find that show on You Tube. I am sure we do not have that show here in the States.
Deana Lynn Allen Rogers
Hi Deana, you'll find it under the heading of coast bbc neil oliver. but I don't know which episode had the salt segment. however all of the episodes are very interesting.
Always wondered if this would work, guess I have my answer. That's a hell of a lot more salt than I thought you'd get. Thanks a lot for the video.
You wouldn't be surprised if you've ever dipped your finger in sea water and placed it on your tongue. But remember, he only boiled it to get rid of the water, salt is a natural antibacterial agent and requires no cleaning.
can we eat it without any process
JOHN SAMUEL S I wouldn't
then how to process it to eat
JOHN SAMUEL S grind and enjoy!
WOAH! I'm gonna try this! (when my parents are gone XD)
Andrew Manroe Hi Andrew, fantastic, have fun:)
You did it?
were your parents ever gone?
I have a feeling you couldn't make it past finding a boat. XD
7 years now, have you did it?
That is awesome old mate. I just saw someone on channel 33 food network doing sea salt then googled it and found your video. I intend to do my own salt. Thanks for your video.
David
Hi! I came here from searching "how to make seaweed salt". Just want to say Thank you for the video and it helped my research a lot!
Oo, that looks good on fish or veggies or anything. It's cool that it comes from the sea. 👍
Hi Alexia, thank you:)
Yup. 😊
Absolutely brilliant mate ! Enjoy
Thanks for sharing this video with us. I thought it was hard to extract the salt from the sea since other people would get their big machines and other things, but this video really helped me, thanks man.
Razor CraftMC Hi, your most welcome, thank YOU
You are a self made man. Wonderful show. Thank you.
Next time just get a bunch of old milk bottles. Put a pin prick or two in the lid, put it on the roof of the shed. When the bottles are about half way down half the amount of bottles by pouring them into each other, rinse and repeat every few days. Eventually you'll have one 2L bottle of soupy brine. Pour it onto a large tray in the sun where no crap will fall on it and cover it with a sheet of muslin, cotton, or something very fine. Top it up with your super brine. Eventually you'll have a giant slab of salt. Hit it with a (clean - obviously - use the same precautions you would brewing to not contaminate it) hammer or stab it with a screwdriver and you've got free rock salt - no huge electricity bill.
The real issue here is getting clean seawater. I'd always recommend using a filter. Even 30 miles out to sea there'd be a significant ppm of Indian, African and Asian poop, even though we're on the other side of the planet both of those regions shit the planet up so hard it crosses the globe.
I am blown away, thanks for sharing!!!!
Very Interesting... During the 1850'S their were still Indians here in Mobile Co Al. They would walk 30+ miles to the salt water of the Gulf with their clay pots : borrow wash pots from settlers to put water in & boil then scrape the salt into another & repeated.
They would give some of the salt to the settlers for the use of their iron wash pots. Allen Town 1850'S
Mobile Co. Alabama
That is cool. Sea Salt has a really nice taste I use it all the time. That made a lot more salt than I ever expected.
Many thanks, with my first salt video I discovered that I got about 4% salt which turns out to be fairly right. So imagine how much salt would be left if all the oceans dried up.
Love your video with every day house found tools to make seasalt. Never imagined it would be this yieldy. 👍👍👍
very nice salt. i live near a place called salt pond on Kauai Hawaii they gather salt there. There is no water inlet but at the full moon tide the water level raises up through the clay then the sun dryer up the ponds leaving the salt. I talked to one old man he put salt water in a pan like you have in the sun he said it did not work. I saw a video of Thailand where they pot sea water in split bambo it seems to work.
+Ralph Mastriani Hi Ralph, many thanks:)
Thank you for sharing this experience with us.. brilliant
I really wanted to make my own rock salt cuz i couldn't go outside, And i was running out of salt. This video helped me alot thank you!💖💖💖
I’m from the US and when I say this video really helped me I mean it I’m going to start making my own salt
idk y i like this video so much
Can you accomplish the same end result if you simply pour the water into an open container and let the water evaporate over a few weeks?
Where we live it's rally hot in summer - 40 deg C for months on end. We collected an 8 litre bucket of sea water from the Mediterranean and strained it trhough cheesecloth doubled. Then we just set it on the porch till it got really sludgy (about a week) and then just boiled off the remaining water. Didn't take long at all. Then put it in a frying pan till it went all sparky.
Do you think that it has to be really pure sea water in the first place - what with all the saltiness and then boiling.
Contamination in the seawater stays when you evaporate the water. That's why he collected it 30 miles out. But if you collect near shore, his suggestion sounds good, to avoid rainy days or areas with significant runoff like a river delta.
What a awesome video sir really cool That you shared That im a cook myself but never had seen it happen before i did know How i would be able to make it but never did it so thanks for showing !
What you can do with this salt is to enrich sea water salinity to max in a jar and produce electricity with it by two metal rods. Of course on the expense of the metal rods eventually.
how long did it take to reduce?
That salt is not pure sodium chloride. What you have there is basically all the nonvolatile minerals dissolved in seawater, which is primarily sodium and magnesium chlorides. Since magnesium chloride absorbs water out of the air, the shelf life of the stuff you've made is limited. To increase purity, I recommend washing your salt with a small amount of boiling water, or stopping the crystallization right before its completely try to keep the magnesium in solution.
Wow, good input. Chemist or enthusiast?
enthusiast
how would you stop the crystallization?
?
It's loaded with calcium too! Look at the grayish color. I bet it's slightly bitter and chalky...
Great stuff and good advice! I'd also recommend not storing water in plastic bottles or containers as it leaches hormone altering chemicals into the water and its contents. I'd also recommend sun drying on sheets instead of grilling to dry as it can strip some of the natural minerals when heated directly, heated from below when on a tin would be better though sun dried is best!
Love it! Something else to add to my to do list!
I never thought you could that I really like your channel! :)
Interesting to see just how much salt you can get from that amount of water .
+Choppington Otter Hi & thank you:)
Great video
I really wouldn't try this method because of the amount of electricity used to boil off all that water. Consider it may cost more in electricity than buying it at the store and where is that electricity coming from? Coal burning plants? Oil? Natural gas? You really want to use a large bed and allow the sun the evaporate most of the water. Also consider the other things in salt water. You may have avoid industrial chemical contaminants by boating further into the ocean but there are still naturally occurring toxic compounds in the water. Most of those potentially toxic compounds do not boil off, they mix in with the salt. Adding more water to the pan ads more of these toxic compounds and it essentially concentrates them. I would highly recommend purifying the salt by performance at least 2 steps of recrystallization. You will lose some of your salt but it's worth it for the peace of mind. Cheers.
I tried this with ocean water from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the eastern US. I wonder if salt from different oceans or even different areas of the same ocean tastes any different?
This is what they say. I have a relative who collects salt from different parts of the world. She gave me 5 different samples and they did taste and feel different from each other and from store-bought table and sea salt. This summer I plan to try making my own from the nearest beach. I've swallowed it a thousand times. Why not put a pinch in my soup?
@@TUKByV
This is salt with Magnesium, Calcium and other Minerals from natural sources. Its one of the few sources of Magnesium that your body need very highly because the magnesium in most foods on land and near shore has been destroyed by sprays and chemicals such as Monsanto's poisons.
I love this.my partner goes to see every fortnight.i will ask him to bring me back a few litres a fortnight.and I could try cooking over coals
That is amazing.
Great video!
every prepper needs to lern this
best English
Friend: Hey where did u get the salt?
Me: uhhhh
Great video. In Thai, they lay it out on clay soil dug outs and let the sun do the work.
Yes I was thinking the same thing, what a waste of electricity. It's not like the salt is going to go bad sitting in the sun. It's interesting to see 1.5kg comes from 33L of water. I get Himalayan salt at the organic shop for $4/kg & Celtic for $7. The Celtic is grey so it has a lot of minerals.
Great video,I too saw the same programme coast,we have a local factory (20miles away) that produces Welsh sea salt it's called Halen Môn.
Hi Phil, thank you. Wow, that's fantastic:) I'm sure it's fantastic salt.
Can you please say how many minutes you boiled how long is this procedure Pkease! Much appreciated
in the red sea for every 100 gallons if water 40% salt, as to the pasific ocean 30%.
very cool! thanks for the education!
Can somewhat populated sea water pollutants be boiled out during the cooking process?
Can you tell me whats the difference between the salt you got from boiled seawater and the salt you get the from supermarkets. Is there any difference and also taste ?
I wonder what it would look like if I used water from the Chesapeake Bay...
WHAT, 1400 gr of sea salt out of 33 liters of sea water?!!
Oooow i feel my Dutch heat skip a beat.
Thank you, excellent video! Appreciate it :)
So it's just boiling the water out of the sea?
Nice
awesome
It's partly good for you because of the microscopic dead sea life and their decomposed(ing) poop provide extra minerals beyond sodium. Vegans shouldn't eat seasalt! lol. #trolling
Lol I will definitely tell someone this
Good man, I enjoyed that and I will have go at it
Hi Tony, thanks:)
I love his accent!
G'day Ovi, thanks:)
best in the world mate!!!
32 liters how long does it take to become salt?
nice video, never knew this was possible!
Is that safe? You don’t have to clean ocean water? Or boils it first? You just cook it down slowly?
Does it taste like ocean?
I’m so curious
It tastes like sea salt
Like he said just don't do it if the water is really polluted
How do you think they make salt? It's natural they just get it from the ocean and basically do this but on a industrial scale
Probably wouldn't do it if the water is full of plastic and looks brown, basically if the jug looks somewhat clear it's good enough
We also make our own salt from the ocean we live in (Panama)... How do keep it from getting moist over time? That is the issue we have. Thanks for a great video!!
Mix it with rice. It will absorb the moisture.
I live in UAE and always wanted to try this but the Persian gulf is the busiest waterway in the world and I'm afraid of pollution from ships and the numerous oil spills we have had in the past in the gulf. I like to try it anyway and see how it comes out. I can't go out to sea so can I just take it from the beach? Though I imagine there would be more contaminates closer to coast.
Roo M G'day Roo M, I think if you find a nice piece of coastline near rocks, away from people, you should be ok.
Proably tastes better than mass produced salt too
Thank you!
Also do you not worry about Fukushima ?
Honestly, I never gave it a thought, my part of the Pacific Ocean is a LONG way from there.
Do you think a glass tray would work as well?
Probably as long as it’s broiler safe. Idk if I’d risk putting the glass on two burners at once. Differences in temperature may cause it to shatter.
this is awesome!
Wow
does boiling down not destroy the natural minerals in it?
Hi Rene, I don't boil it at any stage, it doesn't even come to a simmer.
Cool
how are you excluding the other salts like bitter salts?
Muck2014 Hi, I'm not aware of any bitter salts I should be extracting. The salt I'm making tastes fine.
Because there are a lot of different salts of Magnesium, potassium, magnesium and sodium inside! But that is better of course then the pure tablesalt. It contains salts of all elements especially halogenic salts:
amazing,,
noice now i can make a melted salt in a rice
Is these celiac salt? What is celiac salt?
cool
This is a really cool experiment ! But for everyone who lives near an ocean and wants to do this for themselves, I would advise not to use the salt on food. There are a lot of other contaminants that are being collected within the salt (including but not limited to: fish/animal waste, heavy metals, and every other piece of garbage that is disintegrating in the oceans). All of that is in the salt, and our kidneys can only process so much after a while. This may be cool for a body scrub though, IDK
This is cool Af man I’m not buying salt no more 😂
Interesting and fun video!!
I'm just a bit jealous though, no sea salt harvesting for me in Nebraska. }:] lol
Had i been visiting and saw that setup with the scale. U woulda found my passed out body on the ground holding a straw. But when i come to i'll be honest with ya. needs more b12 pwder, its still too pure......lol
GoldenShaolinNutz Thanks
The real Pablo Escobar
How long did it take you to make it??
G'day & thanks, it took a day & a half. It all happened while I was doing other things. I've had to put off an overseas holiday to pay for the electricity:( just kidding. cheers:)
***** Hahaha, thank for the answer and the great videos :-)
Cheers, interesting..
Hello! I've got a question: how long does it take ?
Basak Berfin Hi Basak, it took a while, about 24 hours doing what I did.
I'm surprised he didn't get swatted. That would've been a hard thing to explain
Thank you! I’m going to try and make my own Tasmanian sea salt, rather than pay a fortune for it!
That doesn't look too sanitary Jeff
how do you clean it
their no need to clean it boiling kills everything and nothing can grow in salt
Almost 1 and a half kilograms. That is alot of salt.
More salt than a Russian server
You sound like Lemmy
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2:48 nnyesss....
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Wonderful! I watched this with my 3 year old son who wanted to know where salt came from. Thank you!
I really appreciate this video. You've shown me everything from start to finish. Thanks :)
Tyrēk 9 Did you already made you own salt?
You are actually supposed to just boil off most of the water NOT ALL and cool it down slowly and the supersaturated solution will start producing 100% pure crystal salt. Which you skim off the water and let drain and dry .
Using this method you don't have all the trapped dead sea life and other minerals like calcium in your salt. You get a clearer product
Wouldn't calcium be good, too?
Obviously pure calcium won't taste like salt, but this is UNREFINED sea salt, calcium is a nutrient, and calcium would be a trace mineral (is even present in tap water and improves flavor). So I guess it's a matter of preference, but seems to me you can't go wrong with a little extra naturally sourced calcium from nature?
@@birkit1133 I mean the bugs and all the dead Sea Life is another thing that I'd rather not sprinkle on my food
@@jacobkudrowich got it. I'm not squeamish. The salt will kill any bacteria.
@@birkit1133 I'm not talking about bacteria I'm talking about micro organisms that have already died and their corpses litter your salt.
I'm sure it's not the most economic way of getting salt. Sure, if you let it sun dry it will essentially be free. What you cannot put a price on is knowing you made it yourself and knowing that apart from what was already in the water there is no added chemicals, which is a win in my book. Great video bud
Thank you! I will purchase a new pan just for salt. You are lovely people. ♡
4:18 At first I thought it was salt you were making...