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How much salt do you use in a month? How much water do you drink?

• hansvm 6y ago
  That's not really a fair comparison. There's easily 25x as much water vs salt in the ocean, and a 10x higher fraction of water usage is residential than salt usage. The break-even point you're pointing to is closer to 250:1, not 1:1.
  • enkid 6y ago
    That's fair enough, but I still doubt you use 1/250 of water in salt, even when you're cooking. If you add things like showering, washing clothes, and lawn care, it's not even close
    • hansvm 6y ago
      The numbers I gave did include factors like showering. Edit: I do think that you use more than 1/250 salt vs water in cooking though (whether by mass or volume). By mass that's around 1tsp of salt per 6.3 cups of water, and soup recipes for example will often call for that much extra salt on top of whatever is already in the other ingredients you're using. Edit: Individual recipes are probably the wrong way to look at that. It's recommended to eat under 1tsp of salt (actual usage is higher in the USA) and drink over 10 cups of water each day, so whatever combination of food/beverages you're taking in you still wouldn't quite hit that crude 1/250 threshold.
      • philwelch 6y ago
        Salt is also useful for things other than eating it, and more of those uses may be cost-effective if salt were more plentiful.