How to make salt from sea water

[@JollyLife4U]

Oh, I love homemade sea salt. I make it every time I go on holiday somewhere close to a sea that looks clean. It is also nice to compare salts from different locations (seas). I also went to south of France this summer and visited the salt farm in Gressin, and similar to you, Eddie, by looking at how they make it, got the idea to make it slower to get some crystals formed. I did it the same as you to the point of getting to the last 1/6th, and then covered a shallow pan with aluminium foil and transferred the condensed liquid in it at very low heat on the smallest hob, turning it off and on until almost all water was gone. I have still got a lot of crystals and it was probably for 3-4 hours in total. It looks absolutely stunning in the jar actually, snow white and glorious.

[@EddieShepherd]

Ah cool, , thats a great idea as a memory from places you visit, I love stuff like that, I really like buying honey when I travel too.

[@wolfren14]

I would loved to see a video of your making salt process :)

[@JollyLife4U]

@@wolfren14 I think it would have been more interesting to see how I got the water from the kayak, but have no record of it. I have put one here to give you an idea of the set-up that I used: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKGoeKN7odRobJo

[@wolfren14]

@@JollyLife4U awesome.. thank you 😊 for sharing

[@viixengirrrrl04252]

I live on the coast of Maine. I intend to try this to make Christmas gifts for my loved ones, who live here too.

[@insederec]

I'm vaguely concerned about concentrating dangerous things from the sea water in a way that you wouldn't notice except that there's liters in each handful. But, I don't really have any data on this. If it's not a concern, I'm a big fan of this idea.

[@leanoradames7128]

Amazing! We will never run out of sea water!

[@drewkilkenny]

I use my greenhouse in the summer to evaporate the water, it take a few days but is totally free the suns heat does all the work

[@EddieShepherd]

Oh that’s cool, sounds great. Does it make it humid in the greenhouse or is the airflow enough?

[@drewkilkenny]

@@EddieShepherd right now I'm only doing like a gallon at a time so the humidity isn't bad, also I don't have my pants in there yet as it's still warm enough where I live for the plants to be outside. During the day the greenhouse gets up to 110-115 degrees fahrenheit so it goes relatively quick

[@EddieShepherd]

@@drewkilkenny ace. That sounds like a great system. I’ll try myself if I get a chance too :)

[@drewkilkenny]

@@EddieShepherd yea if you have a greenhouse do it, even in the dead of winter the temps still get upwards of 80 during the day

[@amandacoganbarber3028]

Hi Eddie, this is a nice video so thanks for making this. I found your video as I was looking to see if the way I'm making salt is safe and if I'm missing an important part of the process. I'm originally from Newton-le-Willows bordering greater Manchester but now live on a boat in the Mediterranean after sailing from the UK. The meds salinity is crazy, especially here in the eastern med and I have just read it's at around 40 percent salt in the summer! Salt keeps encrusting our boat and the windows get thick with big flakes really quickly so I decided to make our own salt! I have already started to collect sea water and I've just got around a teaspoon from a small amount left on a plate outside overnight which was an experiment, so now I'm scaling things up! It's so saline here I float and don't have to swim at all, so it's so easy for me to make salt here and it feels good to produce it myself although the sun is doing all the work for me so I'm lucky! I'm going to stock up now so that when we sail out of the med we'll have a good supply!

[@maryannechilton1465]

At the beach now and will definitely try the experiment. Thank you! Perfect timing.

[@EddieShepherd]

Yes do, if its somewhere with nice clean water give it a go and let me know how you get on :)

[@dmroliveira]

We live very close to the sea in Portugal and we always bring a big bottle of water that we put on a tray and leave to dry in the sun. It's a really slow process but it's kind of fun raking the crystals to the side and adding more sea water do make it really concentrated. It makes the most amazing salt. (Here it's over 100°F during the day in the Summer, so now it's much quicker!) Just remember that If you want to do this outside you should get a glass tray with a cover to prevent dust from accumulating but find a cover that allows the vapour to exit.

[@pastorchrismullis]

Great video! I just made a video where I made salt from a recent trip to the ocean in Saint Simons Island, Georgia in the USA. I made granular salt, but I think next time I will make flake salt and try your method. I love being knowing I made it myself and I always remember my trips to the ocean whenever I taste the salt I made in my food.

[@fearlesscreative5896]

Loved this video, we are definitely going to try this. Thanks

[@MichaelGarstang]

Really cool. Especially as I'm starting to hear about micro plastic-free alternatives 😟

[@percolator.]

Great video! if you are worried about any nasties in the sea water i would suggest giving the crystals a wash in ice cold ethanol, when you place the crystals in the sieve to drain. This should remove trace organic materials.

[@EddieShepherd]

thanks, thats interesting, it makes me think about the possibility of washing salt in flavoured ethanol distillations too. I'lll have a play about at some point

[@percolator.]

@@EddieShepherd not sure that would work as any compounds in the distillation are likely much too soluble for them to stick to the salt. you never know may work, if you wanted to go crazy you could try acidifying the distillation with some food grade acid like vinegar. this should ionise any ionisable group and give it a better chance of sticking to the salt. hope this helps, love your work. should get round to visiting the restraunt sometime

[@sharonlangis2493]

​@@percolator.Hi hi san nori be used to make sea salt seasoning

[@Tovkal]

Nice to know this can be done! I always think that making ingredients at home (salt in this case) is never worth it either financially or time wise. In this case I think it could be ok time wise, if you make salt for a whole year or something, but you would need free energy (solar panels) for it to make sense financially. Anyway, great video 👍

[@blanka1376]

If you got land you got free energy 💪🏻 tho this is good to know in case we face economic collapse or another form of crisis that leaves us independent instead of dependent on society

[@BlushingRoseDiaries]

You can always dry it using sunlight to save on energy. It may take longer but it costs nothing to make but time.

[@cholst1]

Should work well with a solar dehydrator as well? If you wanna use less energy.

[@EddieShepherd]

Thats a great suggestion

[@JZ-gr1tz]

There's many different methods In some part of the world they usa natural sunlight exposure to gain the results allowing it more natural outcome

[@TheCooknChemist]

Have you tried making salt pyramids? Took me a long time to finetune but the results are awsome!

[@EddieShepherd]

I havnt but it sounds cool, I’ll give it a try

[@jorts885]

Great info. Question: When you reduced the seawater down to a brine, did you test the salinity as well? or did you just measure by the reduction? Thanks.

[@EddieShepherd]

I think I just measured by weight / reduction if memory serves me right

[@jorts885]

@@EddieShepherd I'll report back and let you know what the end salinity is after the boil.

[@EddieShepherd]

@@jorts885 fantastic, yeah please do :)

[@kentuckyvapors464]

despite you being british, i enjoyed this video.

[@i8every1]

What do you mean , "despite you being British"

[@senyk1]

Another incredibly informative and beautiful video, thanks for creating this!

[@EddieShepherd]

Oh thank you, thats very kind to say

[@jjmunna]

Thank you for this video. Does it have the same mineral value as the French one?

[@EddieShepherd]

Hi, sea salt collected by evaporation is very pure so any mineral content is really tiny as I u defray and it. I would guess it will vary a little on where you are in the world. Noirmoutier in France is famous for it because of the long standing tradition of farming salt their, because it has flat salt marshes suited to that, more than a particular mineral content. That is my amateur understanding anyway

[@jjmunna]

@@EddieShepherd well I really appreciate your video and am going to try it. I live in Ireland on the south east coast. So worth a try. Thank you most sincerely

[@jennabrook6774]

How do you check the water is safe/free from contaminants that would stay witin the salt?

[@charlessmyth]

[4:56] That's glass, Mr White

[@António-k7n]

what you maiking with the stiller ?

[@parth7501]

Could you use a rotovap for at least the first stage reduction? Seems like that would be much less energy intensive than boiling at atmospheric pressure!

[@ramospk]

Can you just leave the concentrated solution outdoors to evaporate? Plus cheaper

[@EddieShepherd]

Yes you can, that’s one of the ways traditional sea salt is made, but you need dry weather obvious. I live in Manchester so that’s a no go here

[@etsyconsultant]

@@EddieShepherd Lol🤣

[@dextroussystems1794]

Nice teacher

[@sasukeuchiha998]

How would you get impurities out before evaporation?

[@EddieShepherd]

Filtering would be the best option I think

[@ramospk]

And best of all, you just made the ocean a little less salty. Thanks for that. 😂. 😂

[@saidualiyu7615]

It was great

[@Nebulaeee]

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[@pizzalord1733]

this is pi not salt

[@WanderingNature]

Why boil as I believe in France they just let the saltwater dehydrate in the sun ?!?!?!

[@EddieShepherd]

@@WanderingNature that’s the perfect way to do it if you can leave it outside to slowly evaporates without rain diluting it but I live in Manchester in the UK and there is a 0% chance you can leave anything outside without it being rained on. So the boiling is just to reduce the water content enough that a slow drying can take place