Why Icelandic Sea Salt Is So Expensive | So Expensive

Hand-harvested Icelandic sea salt could cost you more than 30 times the price of table salt. Housed in one of the most remote and coldest locations in the country, Saltverk salt factory produces 10 metric tons of salt each year. But there’s one other thing that’s unique about the way it’s processed: Everything is powered entirely by geothermal energy. Unlike processed rock salt, the sea minerals remain in the crystals - but these are only a tiny percentage of the final product. The final result is very minimally processed, flaky sea salt from clear Icelandic waters.
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Why Icelandic Sea Salt Is So Expensive | So Expensive

[@qzeta7701]

It's hard cuz they need to differentiate between salt and snow

[@AVG33K13]

Snow melts

[@notapplicable4567]

Lol they over there look at them both like, ahhhhhhhhh....this one

[@user-fz2ob1ww8u]

@@AVG33K13 Ok mister joke fister

[@YoHoOMirster]

Blakerz 3 Gaming Salt also melts

[@maavyshuhad2980]

E joke fister lol

[@Moon-eu8pt]

idk why but i am addicted to these kinds of videos

[@rishrishrich]

Not addicted, rather it is an interesting video

[@KOST1110]

Yeah, almost everyone is just about the same regarding these kind of videos! 😜👍😆

[@MB-ey6vv]

Yes brother

[@darrenohara4588]

interesting af

[@RAYDEEY17]

You're not alone here

[@alexpena5101]

"This sea salt can cost 30 times as more expensive than table salt" *looks at the price of table salt in my local Walmart* so $30

[@ejerl9107]

Good math 👍🏼

[@pokochoco5931]

@@ejerl9107 what, are you a preschooler? That's simple math

[@ejerl9107]

@@pokochoco5931 you have a really good humor

[@_Megasthenes_]

In my country Sea Salts cost around $3 for 1 kg.

[@HiHelloHi]

@@pokochoco5931 no shit

[@Xannyphantom77]

That’s so sad because I just saw basically the exact same video about salt being made in the same way in Mexico, but it was the opposite story instead of it being so expensive it was the story of how there was only 63 farmers left using a method over 2000 years old, but somehow an entire liter of their salt only sold for $.50 in The USA Edit: the man also did everything without a single other worker, barefoot by himself in the hot sun. No machines or anything just one man by himself selling salt for dirt cheap, to keep his ancestors tradition alive

[@martingo2680]

Just goes to show how marketing drives the cost of any piece of shit.

[@ADUDUsimp69]

Well u know, its somethin labelled made by European Countries😅

[@ErickSntM]

The European colonization results nowadays given value to products made by the europe and devalues products and process made by the antique colonies, even if they are exactly the same thing. Its a way to maintain the "hierarchy".

[@DaGooseMan]

Yes, i remember watching that video! I remember him saying he was 40, but he looked goddamn 20

[@brapinator8500]

yea i remember i just watched that too, to be fair these are different salts but that other salt should be worth so much more than he’s getting paid for it

[@ArcticSeraph]

So when you are buy this salt, you're not really buying the salt, you're buying the process.

[@anonymouse5594]

They don't have enough sunlight to make salt

[@ArcticSeraph]

So at the end of the day, it's still sea salt regardless?

[@anonymouse5594]

@@ArcticSeraph of course

[@Bot-bg2cz]

Salt taste like salt. The only reason people buy this is probably for super fancy restaurants to jack up their food price.

[@zion3335]

@Dennis Helgi what about walrus shit and polarbear scat

[@dannnyyang]

“Salt is an important part of Icelandic cuisine” Where is it not 😂

[@Smith6265]

Anybody know where I can buy some salt 😁

[@roninzorz6668]

you must not be British

[@dannnyyang]

roninzorz666 i’m american lol

[@sonicdash7067]

I was searching for this comment

[@jonnedo3484]

if you think about it this way: iceland uses salt like the usa uses sugar

[@blogit1000]

"This salt is all harvested by hand" Then footage of machinery and how it powered by geothermal energy, also using pump to get the sea water.

[@a.m.3412]

It said almost all by hand

[@a.m.3412]

0:36

[@mysteriousopinionatedperso1508]

@@a.m.3412 I think 0:10 is what they’re referencing

[@maysa8386]

Key word Harvest*

[@a.m.3412]

@@mysteriousopinionatedperso1508 ahh i see

[@zaimzarif7508]

They are trying so hard to make it sound expensive.

[@blaccmamba7567]

and exclusive

[@59Love1]

I don't see why its so expensive nothing special here

[@bubbaflo12]

@@59Love1 ran on 100% geothermal energy is pretty special bud. they power everything by the heat inside the earth. thats not special to you?

[@59Love1]

@@bubbaflo12 So what ?

[@travisedwards9983]

@@bubbaflo12 Not special enough to warrant 30x pricing. But hey more power to them if someone will pay that.

[@JohnDoe-rm5jh]

GF: "Hey baby my parents aren't home, wanna come over?" Me: "I'm processing salt woman!"

[@Maria-ne7cn]

Ha.

[@user-jl5fh2qy3p]

😂

[@METHYLENEDlOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE]

"Baby" i find it funny how girlfriends use babe and babey and baby and yes, i am a human

[@howeyyadoing9070]

@@METHYLENEDlOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE ‘Baby’ and ‘Daddy’ always seemed to me like terrible nicknames for a significant other

[@RamiHaddadin]

@@Couchlover47 No, they are making salt woman, not just salt

[@honeypotfilms6066]

me: doesn’t know what icelandic salt is also me: yeah, why IS icelandic salt soo expensive??

[@zion3335]

marketing

[@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776]

Their answer is almost always high demand :/ but entertaining nonetheless

[@benjamingumundsson4397]

Epic Seal yeah am icelandic and can confirm we do put meth into it to make people addicted

[@szargos]

Well I don't know. I just got recommended this video after watching the "The Japanese Technique for Harvesting Sea Salt by Hand" video. It looks 100x more "by hand" in Japan. All I see in this video are machines in every stage of the process.

[@puidemare2337]

Hawaii is 100% by hand no machinery at all. It is done how our ancestors did it. Not even boiling down. It's all from the sun. We call it pa'akai and it cannot be sold because the US government regulates everything!! The excuse they use is because it is not sterilized, like milk being pasteurized. Through sterilization it is no longer salt or milk it is a completely different product once it goes through high heat. That's how they are able to weed out native sustainability.

[@cat-.-]

"salt has been an important part of Icelandic cuisine for thousands of years" :O this show is eye-opening @_@ My head is spinning

[@RicoGalassi]

Narrator: it'll cost you 30x more than regular table salt Workers: carelessly drop salt all over the floor

[@bubbletea7771]

Ikr the first thing I saw was salt spilling out

[@shariceornah]

Lol I was like is there anything to catch that salt and bring it back into production.

[@dennisp8520]

Meanwhile I will continue to buy regular table salt that is literally like 89 cents and will last me for a year

[@rescune4021]

Ight lemme gently put the salt on the groud in the most grandest way

[@fitomi1989]

I can imagine how many dollars they lose because just a worker splitting up the salt

[@FingeringThings]

Cause it has to be shipped from Iceland

[@matteo805]

I see you every day at least 5 times a day how many videos have you commented on

[@kulsnake2519]

Ikr? 0% carbon footprint my ass

[@phantomstranger1125]

@@matteo805 How many videos have you watched?

[@chm1ata]

Kul Snake making it

[@webblzzz]

I see you everywhere in the comments now.

[@TheHorreK2]

Iceland is simply a treasure of the World, i honestly think its one of the most beautifull places on our planet

[@CustomKirby]

I tried doing this with sea water but, after it evaporated there was little pieces of lego

[@superdestrier9160]

These videos were made for spending time during quarantine making up for my lackluster education by learning Icelandic salt trivia

[@infini.tesimo]

You'll always get a better education and real perspective here than what you learned in your outdated school curriculum. This is all real time and latest and greatest.

[@janmascarina]

It's no longer "zero carbon footprint" when you have to ship the salt to wherever you are, from Iceland, no less!

[@SuperPlayz]

No it’s shipped on wooden canoe.

[@spideywhiplash]

@@SuperPlayz 🛶🤣

[@sanjarsocool]

SuperPlayz the tree is cut and no longer can produce oxygen

[@KyleLewsader]

and in plastic containers none the less lol

[@samistudies3516]

@@sanjarsocool they can plant a new one from the trees saplings which they cut down

[@ipwnyoudiehaha]

Why's it expensive? .... because you've labeled it as expensive

[@FoodRecipes108]

Just like the property in my area

[@VI-pp4jo]

Yup. Also made a video to validate its expensiveness.

[@chickenz1]

@Domagoj Rubil eat salt a lot and be salty

[@JaeyunYD05]

It only produces around 10 metric tonnes a year

[@sarahcicle8592]

It’s flakier apparently, and is a lot greener as they don’t leave carbon footprint...along with labor costs from being hand processed

[@brianserrano00]

The phrase “made by hand” always confuses me so much

[@royceorville2]

The man named Hand: hi

[@staainless]

Narrator: “This salt is all harvested by hand, in one remote and extremely cold region in West Iceland. But it’ll cost you 30x the amount of regular sea salt, why?” Pretty sure you just listed the reasons

[@moment554]

Exactly what I thought lol

[@F_M20]

correction there 🙋 it is almost all by hand. dont you see the modern machine? the salt harvester in my country can legit say by hand. non factory salt harvester is using basic tools for harvesting salt. the vid is showing a factory that produced salt. yeah it is factory, you want to acknowledge it or not if they have machine it is a factory. by using hand it means no modern machine just using traditional way and tools.

[@Emannylima]

I said the same thing 😂😂

[@vigneshkannan3921]

I have seen in a video that in Japan, they produce salt by the traditional method and they #actually made without machines by talented workers.# And they are available in most of the continent stores in Japan and they are not as expensive as these salts which are marketed for their higher price.

[@Dread4u11]

Hi

[@latenight3111]

Salt is an invaluable ingredient for Icelandic cuisines. Well.... very informative

[@sindrih1751]

They used it as a perservitive not to spice the food up basically they had to put all their food into barells filled with salt so it wouldnt spoil most of our traditional food , wouldnt call i cousin is made that way

[@sindrih1751]

@Ander Jr iceland has alot of culture its just that its not as it was before because of many factors like christianity, volcanp eruptions that killed more than 75% of the population and again 75% beacause of a virus

[@PLAYAWORLDRecords]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZSlknpugpKloc0

[@tysonromaniuk7674]

@@sindrih1751 i think every culture that had access to salt in the past used it for preservation

[@IrishAnnie]

Every cuisine. Salt is a preservative used for hundreds of years to preserve meat. It’s used in pickling.

[@shortwidgets]

Just went to Iceland and it's just incredibly expensive with a 23% VAT and thermo energy is everywhere. So, these guys are getting the energy at next to nothing but still charging exorbitant prices.

[@danielbateman6518]

Living costs are higher in Iceland and it looks like they're not taking advantage of economy of scale. It doesn't even taste different.

[@pray4mojo35]

I had a bad Icelandic sea salt habit a few years ago. Cost me my job, my friends and my family. Going on 4 years salt free.. one day at a time.

[@lavasiouxwindwater9789]

Step 1. We admitted we were poowerless... 😁

[@SanlyLiuu]

Imagine can’t have wife/kids because your job is making salt.

[@catrinad2491]

Lmao I literally thought that

[@chubs2312]

You must be very salty

[@leehongjin6884]

Hey that stuff was worth alot back in the day, of course you'd want to ban your workers from getting married to dedicate more time to salt making.

[@catrinad2491]

@@leehongjin6884 Yeah but they act like its being a doctor

[@SmartChannel01]

Some people dont want that lifestyle

[@noneofyourbusiness5450]

Worker: "This is as green as it gets" ..... Worker: packs salt into plastic bags ....

[@stevenardian5559]

Just like you driving cars, use plastic bags

[@shabbarali507]

@Anna Bajomi Lazar care to elaborate on the word "nature friendly" for those plastic bags

[@shabbarali507]

@Anna Bajomi Lazar new version of plastic bags? how stupid can you be ,stop reading so much on Facebook because plastic bags are plastic bags no matter how new they are

[@cdawson198600]

@@shabbarali507 how stupid can you be? Theirs biodegradable plastics that will break down in water, do some research next time before you call someone stupid or you’ll usually end up being the stupid one.

[@cdawson198600]

@@shabbarali507 here I even did you a favor and got you a video of it..... kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3jadaCmftN9n9E

Gott vidio! Meira vidio um sveppi takk takk.

[@BltchErica]

"salt has been part of Icelandic cuisine for hundreds of years" lmao uhh...

[@tjoargenchristoperredja5213]

Well ... He's not wrong tho

[@Mob-tq7gv]

Yah I mean they do use it for one of their famous foods Hakarl aka shark

[@chickennumgit1055]

Straight up fax

[@shino8854]

It's a front 60% salt 40% coke in their shipments, Icelandic ingenuity.

[@eggos1019]

Well salt is salty Soo what’s the difference

[@sergeantrainstorm1269]

It’s greener. It’s rarer. It’s from Iceland.

[@JPAnor]

@@sergeantrainstorm1269 it's bullshit.

[@slimestoneexpert9804]

JPAnor was about to say the same, salt = salt

[@IAsked700]

It’s more healthier

[@danielchangvargas79]

Did you hear? Carbon neutral.

[@shaneownbey]

I just bought a 3oz jar on Amazon for $10 (US). It’s very good! Nice crystals, moist and very clean. It’s my favorite salt, just above Maldon Salt.

[@Holo_wallenstein]

I ordered some Birch smoked Salt from Saltverk. I never had any salt that was comparable with this product.

[@poisonmatter8886]

Plot twist: Icelandic salt is actually drugs and that’s why It’s So Expensive.

[@EgHatchK24a2]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@spideywhiplash]

🤣🤣🤣 Good one!

[@fahimalvi9521]

Heisenberg wants to know your location.

[@JanitaShowaars]

The guy being interview is actually Walter white in disguise

[@davaishsharma2309]

😂😂👍

[@1nguoixauxi2]

come to vietnam, get vietnamese salt, we do it by hand, dry it by the special troppical sun, and its dirty cheap.

[@summermalik9931]

I'd prefer Vietnamese Salt over the stupid Icelandic salt any day any time. Love from Pakistan

[@melanphilia]

So you guys have your own "special tropical sun" over there... hmm... does it grow on mango trees or something?

[@1nguoixauxi2]

@@melanphilia nope, the sun grows on special tropical coffee tree

[@generic2021]

As a Vietnamese i still use table salt. Like salt is salt i dont really care about the flavour or whatever its still going to he be used as salt.

[@milbruh6671]

I just like any old salt, my two favourites are bath salts and the other white powder salt that may be illegal

[@jeremiahsmith916]

I bought a 90 gram jar of this salt while visiting Iceland last year. It was a bit expensive to my European wallet but honestly did not seem expensive at all compared to Icelandic prices for any other products, Iceland is just expensive to exist in, period. It was super interesting to see the actual process behind my salt. Now I’ll feel even more nice using it while cooking :)

[@dmd8552]

Does it taste any different though?

[@jeremiahsmith916]

@@dmd8552 well, I'm far from a gourmet so I can't taste the difference between ANY salts (or spices, or peppers), it's all just the same effect to me. But, as I'm getting older and living in an ill-air-quality area, I certainly appreciate the fact that I'm eating a more "naturally produced" product. Even if my taste buds don't feel the difference, my body most likely will in a few years.

[@nevamind68t23]

Very interesting and highly informative 👍🏾 Cheers from Tropical Queensland Australia 🖐🏾

[@raybugz9275]

Why Icelandic sea salt is so expensive? Because it is cold

[@kindredkate8940]

The price is high because it’s eco-friendly, handmade, and in a remote location (shipping prices). There’s nothing super special about the quality of the salt itself. Edit 4: Deleted other edits just because. I also wanted to warn you all that the replies are a battleground of gatekeepers trying to invalidate this opinion because it isn’t a “review” of the salt (meaning that I haven’t tasted it, although I never claimed to or said anything regarding its specific taste). It’s an idiotic situation, so I thought I’d let you know so that you could save some time.

[@arturomargonar6186]

Is it eco-friendly when it's packaged in plastic bags and has to be shipped half over the world? Also sea salt is usually produced in places where the sun allows natural evaporation anyways...

[@lifefacts6301]

Geo thermal power free, sea water free only high labour cost in the name of pure Iceland it's all about being snobs

[@kindredkate8940]

Arturo Margonar Yes, but in comparison to literally every other product that packaged and shipped in the same manner, I’d say it’s relatively eco-friendly.

[@bubblebubble2635]

Arturo Margonar it is not shipped to far for some of us

[@MrLoobu]

Can you at least give your review then, or is your opinion based on nothing?

[@akshpatel40]

2:50 "Salt has been an important part of Icelandic cuisine"........... Really!!!?

[@birgirdagurbjarkason3085]

Yeah bro it is

[@winterd0tter]

Yeah for conserving etc. Salted meats etc

[@justsomeguywithnotattoo5266]

@@birgirdagurbjarkason3085 they’re being sarcastic

[@sam510938764]

@@winterd0tter In what cuisine is salt not an important part of it? Preserving food with salt is a practice in every culture and that doesn't make Icelandic salt any more special.

[@RonPaulRivet]

I just bought some of this salt from Amazon and it’s amazing.

[@user-nb8yt2il2r]

0% carbon footprint, except for the packaging, and the transport is going to have a much higher carbon foot print than regular, local salt. So its honestly a net zero win carbon wise, and you are just paying more

[@ILotusI]

Check mate

[@--2]

You don’t buy this because of the natural energy.... It’s just good salt not made in huge factories...........

[@TheBaca219]

@@--2 Salt is just sodium chloride nothing more, nothing less. You can have additional minerals in it like potassium but that's just less salt in the "salt". There is no good or bad salt.

[@dmanc6017]

@@TheBaca219 your math checks out salt does equal salt

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

Unless you’re Icelandic Then it is a negligible footprint

[@hannesH3]

It’s salt. You buy it once and you have it forever.

[@mirandazhang1359]

no

[@Juliexe]

i always manage to run out even when i buy huge box’s 🤭 i don’t even know where it goes

[@muffinman1239]

Fvckitdxo3 don’t sniff it up bro

[@Maria-fh1no]

Wow, I learned something new today!!😯😁

[@chinasgovernment2454]

“Why salt is expensive” 2.7 million people: “interesting”

[@NoName-de1fn]

Why did you feel the need to comment this?

[@chinasgovernment2454]

@@NoName-de1fn why did you feel the need to comment THIS?

[@NoName-de1fn]

@@chinasgovernment2454 Yours is more copy paste.

[@chinasgovernment2454]

@@NoName-de1fn how is it copy paste?

[@zeeloraaa4964]

@M 3.7million*

[@clausbacher]

Imagine running around that production with open cuts everywhere.......

[@acek2016]

Ohhhhh oh no ow

[@ratsiiaratr24]

rip

[@tg.amirtg.ruzaimi1795]

Salt on the wounds!

[@thebalancer]

It's a punishment given to those who deserve hell

[@Cyph3rX]

@@thebalancer You sound like a lot of fun

[@zernandiaz1983]

Can’t have a wife or kids because of this work, the job will make anyone... salty.

[@christopherhelton6999]

I'm an enthusiastic home cook and ingredients are extremely important to me. I always reach for the box of Morton's iodized salt. No one has ever complained. Salt is salt and, honestly, I don't use that much of it. I season mostly with things like soy sauce, fish sauce, anchovies, tomato paste, Korean chili paste, Tabasco, mushroom ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Maggi, bullion, and, of course, MSG.

[@LaurentIpsum]

Mushroom ketchup! You know what's up

[@zoperxplex]

When was the last time anybody paid any attention to whatever is harvested in Iceland?

[@josenunez6411]

I get bothered when he doesn’t let it drain when he scoops up salt lol

[@batheandrelaxinmyshit6344]

I am a lesbian

[@finhazel]

@@batheandrelaxinmyshit6344 ok same bro

[@raleighkuz.6576]

@@batheandrelaxinmyshit6344 aight bro

[@maxpulido4268]

Everythings covered in salt anyway. Pointless to let it drain.

[@MrDeathray99]

"environmentally friendly salt" Yes shipping salt thousands of kilometers in big diesel fueled tankers is good for the environment.

[@manjensen1710]

The thing is that Iceland imports a lot of things from other countries, sending back those empty ships would be much more expensive in terms of money and fuel than taking advantage of them to export things from Iceland.

[@MrDeathray99]

@@manjensen1710 yeah in terms of money it makes economic sense but its still using more diesel to ship than an if it were empty.

[@dalethomasdewitt]

Nuclear powered cargo fleets will improve that wrong situation. Fear of modern fission technology seems to slow that possibility.

[@ovo8709]

*In plastic bags*

[@unsaltedbutter1792]

Kenny Baka ;w; that’s what I was saying! They said they left no carbon footprint but package in plastic!

[@roxannadrake7186]

Did I miss the part where they talk about the calcium, how it's removed, and how it redistributed to nature or industry? Or was that what was meant by "natural minerals being kept within the final product?

[@Jcc8t7]

It’s always a kicker when the price of a product is the result of inefficient production methods rebranded as ‘unique’ or ‘artisanal’.

[@MrKeyframes]

0 Carbon Emissions to produce until they actually have to ship it. Shipping and distribution where we do alot of pollution.

[@cadenhopp9884]

Wonder how much more CO2 is emitted because it’s shipped from such a remote location.

[@theunahime7446]

Savage! Don't tell the environment-mongers. They'll skin you alive. 🤣🤣

[@kamikaze1827]

@@theunahime7446 HAHAHAHAHAHA No.

[@nyakwarObat]

Cadence Hopp says that while happily slurping a vanilla ice cream

[@valleyforgebbqcompany4219]

You could fly it so the ships won't pollute

[@cadenhopp9884]

@@valleyforgebbqcompany4219 Planes pollute too. Not trying to be nit-picky, but It'd just be interesting to see the real difference in total carbon footprint between this salt and normal salt. Obviously the actual production has a net 0 impact but how much further does it need to travel?

[@meoweth]

Great, now I want some

[@aniketh1558]

Only two reasons any product could be expensive 1.Extraction process 2.scarcity 😊

[@pfzht]

And the rest is hype.

[@crackconnoisseur6387]

@@pfzht it's mostly just hype. Nearly everything is dirt cheap to extract and nearly everything isn't really scarce.

[@wanphrangkitariang1513]

What does it taste like? Salt

[@mrgod5139]

When he says: “As Green As It Gets” And When I see PE packaging:

[@user-oo5cv8wi5y]

And also International shipping

[@satryafuad7417]

Regular solar salt producers are also zero carbon footprints I think...

[@bbigs118]

@Thornback pathetic

[@nicholasmangialardi1618]

Haven't tried Icelandic yet. I use Celtic Sea salt from Ireland and have a couple ounces of 9x refined bamboo black salt. I do have a couple Himalayan pink salt lamps though lol. When I went to buy them, there was like 50 of them in the store and you can tell the difference in air quality

[@brianjohnson1601]

2:51 "wow, we eat that. Its basically white sand...." stuff is kinda awesome when you stand back and take it in

[@hasbeendrummer]

Remember on that Penn & Teller show, when they cut a banana in half. They marked one half as a regular banana and the other as organic. They then got a hipster to see if they could taste the difference. Of course, the hipster said the organic one tasted better. Buy this salt, hipsters.

[@gambigambigambi]

@Thornback No. It just proves how stuck up people are in their bullshit.

[@ricefarmer5246]

“Why is Icelandic Sea Salt So Expensive?” idk you tell me

[@mightyrockstar22]

Ikr

[@lasetlivingstin7752]

Guga brought me here...Thanks for the tour...

[@Sir.VicSmasher]

I went on Amazon and bought a jar and now I'm hooked even after trying others like Jacobsen.. I even gifted jars to people for the holidays.

[@Flor-hz3ow]

At Christmas Hey grandma I got you a gift! id think you'd love it o what can it be! -opens- it's salt....? yes grandma I hope you like it! it's a special kind of salt!

[@wolfd89]

based on your username would have thought you gift lumps of coal for , lol

[@SuperPlayz]

You can basically repackage normal salt and nobody could tell the difference.

[@ptr2307]

yeah, you might get arrested and sent to jail for many years when convicted of fraud but yeah you could.

[@nezomegamob]

Exactly..its a pure gimmic to make people pay more...

[@ashrofclop]

Welcome to china

[@pedrodarosamello64]

@@nezomegamob Being a 100% green form of production is not just a gimmick, there's a whole philosophical point behind making and only buying green products, I don't particularly care about it and it seems so do you, but it matter for a lot of ppl and is technically better for the world

[@Narrowcros]

It wouldnt be that expensive if it tasted exactly the same, it is more pure and lighther and not as harsh as normal salt

[@tunca9709]

“0% carbon footprint” Hell yeah those plastic bags scream %0

[@vinyak123rohatgi]

Lmao

[@scotts918]

They're made from 100% Ocean sourced plastic, so it's all natural 😂

[@benpoole9505]

What would you suggest for an alternative, Öztürk?

[@tunca9709]

@@benpoole9505 I'm okay with them being plastic but it's not nice to claim a %0 carbon footprint...

[@facehugger8995]

we use biodegradable bags at my work that are just as strong as those plastic ones but they cost a lot

[@kimberlyjenkins7976]

Wow this is really cool

[@simplylearning25]

I watched this video maybe 4-6 months ago, I visited my parents this weekend and saw they had a small jar of something in the pantry. Lone behold it was this salt, I tried it and oh my is it good!!

[@j73xt52]

As stated in the video, that factory produces 10 metric tons of salt a year or 10 million grams a year. If 90g of salt is $10.99 as they say, then that’s about $1.2 million a year. If $10.99 is retail, then they probably sell it for less for wholesale and then there’s operating costs.

[@lianhaoli6562]

"salt has been an important part of Icelandic cuisine for hundreds of year" I'm glad that it has spread all around the world wow

[@heypal9418]

Love the way Iceland conducts all business making sure it’s environmental friendly

[@mariow7818]

And 30 times more expensive than normal..

[@syg6037]

Been watching a lot of these salt videos

[@adamcroes4567]

Iceland: makes sea salt by using expesive equipment. Bonaire: leaves sea water in the sun to dry

[@AnaisAzuli]

And it sure looks prettier on Bonaire!

[@haukurfreyrjonsson6336]

@@AnaisAzuli we dont have much sun in iceland dumbass

[@birgirdagurbjarkason3085]

We dont get alot of sun in Iceland so the only way to dry the salt is having expensive equipment

[@PLAYAWORLDRecords]

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[@holymuffin3562]

I wonder why Icelanders don’t use their very common hot bright sunny days

[@user-zt4ry9hm9u]

The cheapest salt you can buy is actually the purest.

[@VergilTheLegendaryDarkSlayer]

Exactly, in Australia the pink himalayan rock salt which is the most pure of sea salt is $0.03c to $0.08c per 10G The $0.08c one comes in a 500g bag at $4 The $0.03c one comes in a 1kg bag at $3

[@rust3152]

​@@VergilTheLegendaryDarkSlayer i dont think rock salt is sea salt

[@leonzhang7821]

Bruh. Pink salt is from mountains and is the LEAST pure salt with almost a percent made up of other minerals.

[@maxpulido4268]

@@rust3152 Depends on the country, but yeah it's usually mined from dead seabeds underground.

[@ImplantedMemories]

1:16 remember guys it's really expensive so better don't drop it on the floor, with a totally avoidable swing :D

[@Lukas-gz2vx]

how the hell do you edit a comment and still make grammatical errors

[@yongyea4147]

@@Lukas-gz2vx I reported you to KZbin.

[@Lukas-gz2vx]

@@yongyea4147 No!!! anything but that!!

[@MagicalQuestAdventures]

@3:05 Expensive salt until it was fill into a plastic bag. The whole video was all about bragging how natural this and natural that but at the end of the day they still use plastic lol.

[@smufkin]

I agree that plastic is not good buuuut, tf are they supposed to use?

[@CustomKirby]

@@smufkin glass?

[@CustomKirby]

Fail

[@antongalazyuk3117]

@@smufkin paper? Mortons cheap salt comes in a cardboard cylinder.

[@rushabhyeshwante]

So, basically buying this salt is waste of money.

[@mrnipzs7604]

Indeed

[@Frendh]

Yes, for you. But not for the people who buy it regularly.

[@estherkirakawaii]

@@Frendh Small pocket change for them

[@aliyahblidner]

Just go to the nearest beach and get a bucket of water, then put it in a pot to boil and just make sure it doesn’t catch fire if you really want “fresh” sea salt or something, or just buy normal table salt

[@albuggy9293]

Not for normal and smart ppl you go buy your Chinese made stuff

[@hanzz9083]

"What did u say!?" "Aaaaaargh....i love the salt...i love the salt!!"

[@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122]

the floor is salt, the wall is salt and even the air is salt. You breath that in and you can definitely taste the salt.

[@CumPeek]

Idk why I’m watching this when I should be sleeping but I’m gonna watch it.

[@trainman071]

I just bought a jar of this high-quality salt and used it in a fine Italian dish I make. my friends ate it all today! thanks to this video this salt is the best I have ever eaten by all means well worth the money you get what you pay for! so don't complain just enjoy it!

[@pablojabs7941]

Hey Insider, If you want to know about a very rare salt making process, look for Asin Tibouk which is made in the Island of Bohol. This salt takes almost 3 months to make.

[@QuentinFlores]

Never thought I would watch a video about ice in iceland and exactly enjoy it. Quarantine has finally got the best of me. 😅

[@rondumontier1187]

This salt is on my spice shelf. It,s not tongue biting and I LOVE IT

[@masterplaster27]

"Salt is important part of Icelandic Cuisine" Genius!

[@dynastyfamily00]

"Why is it so expensive?" Because a fool and their money is easy to separate with marketing.

[@ZOCCOK]

The logo on his T-shirt looks like it was made in Wakanda

[@wybuchowyukomendant]

Business Insider has one of the coolest short documentaries, why didn't I see that earlier

[@MissSira2010]

All I can think about is making preserved pickle...pickle everything! would taste so good hahaha

[@thatguyoverthere312]

"Harvested by hand" Proceeds to show a salt-making factory

[@kl-vt5ko]

@Zachary Lash pretty sure the sifter and everything they use to transport salt wasn't a hand tool

[@JooshySushi]

Next video: *why German Socks work by a 60 year old man from Berlin is worth $1000*

[@Cjnw]

Free piece of the Berlin Wall included

[@andym.s.5231]

Angela Kindness lmao

[@jackburton5]

Maybe you’ve heard of “Pink Himalayan salt”

[@alessandroscarrone]

"Family was seen as a distraction from work" And they aren't wrong.

[@KumarPawar4]

How is the carbon footprint 0% when you're using plastic for packaging?

[@velvetxd27]

Bruh, dude plastic is less carbon footprint than paper from production

[@KumarPawar4]

@@velvetxd27 even if what you're saying is true it still doesn't make it 0%.

[@testingmysoup5678]

The production process is 0% not the packaging and shipping processes. It's all msrketing

[@gavin2915]

One time I was hiking across a rock path on the coast of Chile and theres just like patches of salt everywhere on the rocks

[@austinlawrence9743]

Why not add a geothermal dehumidifier, as well? That would increase winter efficiency.

[@smilingonion2469]

Still not as high quality as salt from an average League of Legends player's spit.

[@shizukagozen777]

😗

[@sam510938764]

"Salt has been an important part of Icelandic Cuisine for hundreds of years" Salt has been an important part of every civilization's cuisine for over eight thousand years before there was even recorded history. Talk about completely unnecessary and pretentious sentences. 🙄 This video is just a thinly-veiled advertisement.

[@tookitogo]

Yep. I mean, salt is only somewhat entirely essential for human life. Bizarre how every cuisine has incorporated this thing that we literally die without! :P

[@saynotosoldmedia7996]

"Salt has been an important part of Icelandic cuisine" Meanwhile, all other cuisines in the world - AYFKM

[@williamgoss4691]

Cool !!

[@rebekahsmith4125]

For the comments saying "salt is salt," yes but also not really. I work at a local spice shop and we have a vast variety of salts. The difference between them all are the impurities in them which give them different tastes/color, but most importantly they have different crystal shapes, lending a different texture in your mouth. While table salt has round, even granules, something like a Cyprus salt, used as a finish, has a pyramid shape and will have a thin, crunchy texture. Moisture content plays a role as well.

[@CustomKirby]

Table salt is nasty. They add anticaking agents such as sodium aluminosilicate or magnesium carbonate to make it free-flowing.