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Evaporate the brine and sell it as artisanal sea salts?
by daniellarusso 6y ago
Evaporate the brine and sell it as artisanal sea salts?
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoAlready there is a backlash against sea salt in the artisanal-product-buying community because it has more microplastics than certain mined sources.
- bobthepanda 6y agoThis sounds very interesting. Do you have sources for more reading on this?
- aspenmayer 6y agohttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/microplastics-found-90-percent-table-salt-sea-salt/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/micro... Global Pattern of Microplastics (MPs) in Commercial Food-Grade Salts: Sea Salt as an Indicator of Seawater MP Pollution Ji-Su Kim, Hee-Jee Lee, Seung-Kyu Kim, and Hyun-Jung Kim Environmental Science & Technology 2018 52 (21), 12819-12828 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b04180 Resolves to: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.8b04180 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.8b04180 Karami, A., Golieskardi, A., Keong Choo, C. et al. The presence of microplastics in commercial salts from different countries. Sci Rep 7, 46173 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep46173 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep46173 Resolves to: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46173 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46173
- daniellarusso 6y agoI have suspected this, but have not read any specifics. I can actually recommend this, which should not have the micro-plastic issue: https://www.jqdsalt.com/our-salt/ https://www.jqdsalt.com/our-salt/ “Our brine is naturally sourced from an ancient, untouched sea called the Iapetus Ocean (predating the Atlantic) trapped below the Appalachian mountains. Our salt is free of contaminants and heavy metals that may be found in other oceans. Gleaned from the earth by an underground brine aquifer, the salt is then processed naturally using the power of the sun and gentle mountain breezes.”
- hansvm 6y agoIf that isn't a fantastically deceptive piece of marketing then I don't know what is. It writes as if other salt deposits didn't originate in some kind of ancient body of water, and it uses the fact that they're harvesting a brine to imply that the entire bloody ocean is still hiding under the Appalachians, so that by buying their salt you're buying "sea salt" (and all the naturalist voodoo that might entail) but without any of the contaminants of modern oceans. Being low in mercury and whatnot seems like a good thing, and their salt is probably fine, but that marketing is something else.
- ClumsyPilot 6y ago'normal' salt mined from the ground don't have microplastics in it,
- _jahh 6y agoi doubt any plastics are going to come out of the heat you'd be running one of these at.
- foota 6y agoIsn't seawater like 3 or so percent salt? The amount of salt produced seems like it'd greatly exceed demand. Although maybe this would be a better alternative to salt mining, not sure if that's clean or not.
- pstuart 6y agoI think this is more appealing: https://news.mit.edu/2019/brine-desalianation-waste-sodium-hydroxide-0213 https://news.mit.edu/2019/brine-desalianation-waste-sodium-h...
- riffraff 6y agoFIY; if you evaporate sea water you don't get sea salt, you get a shitty tasting mix of various compounds, trash, microorganisms etc. You can use the brine to get NaCl but it's not just boiling it up.
- notmadnomad 6y agoYes. Call it "Sierra Nevada sea salt," just as how "Himalayan sea salt" mostly comes from Pakistan. That is, after you evaporate it down to solids.