Wow! Enjoyed your photos and descriptions! Impressive!

It was nice this time to have the encouragement of a few ytube videos and a few bloggers making the same. One couple, over the years while traveling, would buy sea salts from holiday trips. Now, with family and young children, they rent homes for vacation, usually beaches. They make salt with the kids now, and have vacation sea salt to take home. -and a warning to not collect sea water where it is populated with jet-ski fuel.

Looks great! I wouldn't try it with any of our coastal waters. :( Your location is gorgeous!

BTW, I'm sure there must be a market for smoked sea salt!

No salt here in Lake Michigan, but that would be very cool to try. I guess I'll have to make do with the salt mines under Detroit. On second thought, maybe the jet ski fuel would be preferable to anything in Detroit, LOL.

Annie

Very cool! love the photos and especially those rocks!!! :)

I have to wonder if you have worked out the cost based on electricity. ;) I wouldn't suggest doing that. LOL I watched a Canadian Program a few years back that was based on the 100 mile diet where several families in a British Columbian town participated. I remember one family going to the coast and doing up the water on the beach. The woman was so disappointed with how little she got from the pot she did. At least you know what to expect though. Great view too.

What a great back yard!

We have or had another poster from Maine who makes her own sea salt (was it Moosemac?) but as I recall she'd let it evaporate naturally in kiddie pools rather than cook it down. Wonder if there's any significant difference in texture. Looking quickly I couldn't find any of her posts.

As a salt lover and collector--you are taking it to a new level!! Thanks for sharing the process.
Wanna house trade for a week vacation?? :)

I really want to get a wood cookstove in here someday. We already heat with wood for hot water and heat but have an outdoor wood furnace. We have to use wood all summer long just to have hot water. The good thing is we just stoke it once a day in summer and the blower barely needs to come on. I'd love a cook stove though, maybe some day.

Mustangs, you are always welcome. A forum friend visited last year, (not GW). and it was a hoot. We had never met in person. Other close friends have rented houses in the village from another local friend...(they have 3 young kids and wanted 'kid crazy' privacy, lol)

http://www.trinitybightvacations.com/details.html

If we had access to a body of salty water which would be a 3 hour drive, we could probably just sit the salty water on the patio table and let the sun evaporate it. Going to be 102 F today. Love the moose photo!

This is a good video from the AmagansetLISalt folks. Gives me confidence that i can do solar next year at the same time i salt my cod outdoors.

(i'll just do 4 trays. I'm not into selling and marketing at all)

https://www.amagansettseasalt.com/about-us/the-salt

I need to consult a scientist. Todays batch left undisturbed, and adding to last nights salt, we are forming crystals. Nice flaky salt. Paper thin sheets. Breaking up but now a pile of broken lovely sheets.

I should add that we have been filtering through our chemex. Nothing in it but do it anyway. (one little shrimp the size of short grain rice)

Made labels this morning for gifts. The fun part for me.

I'll send you some mustangs....but how does one get addresses on here?

sleevendog, I just followed you. If you follow me back, I will message you my address. I would love to try some of your salt. Happy to pay for it + shipping with paypal.

I have collected salt crystal from Death Valley, but I do not know whether they are safe to consume or now. Some of the crystals I have are quite large, but I have to protect them from dust, as they are not washable like other crystals.

I also have some Dead Sea salt, but that was a gift - I did not collect it.

I'd be happy to send some along. That little packet is probably 50 or more meals using as a finishing salt. Did not know it was possible to 'message' here.

Interesting development this morning. The flaky salts from a previous batch.on the left. Overnight the last batch has formed tiny perfect square crystals. It is basic chemistry but i did not attempt this on purpose.

Lars, I've been consulting the academics. And i agree that we ingest much more from air and the water we drink than unwanted minerals or particulates from salts. DeathValley salt contains borax? The question in the link is about filter size. http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/19560/how-thin-a-filter-to-filter-particles-out-of-salt-water-to-make-salt-for-human-c

What an interesting hobby!

Too bad, water around NYC is not the best for me to make my own,

In that link, I don't know if any germs can grow in concentrated salt water. Also, filtered salt water will give you better (different) salt crystals.

I had been wondering:

Solar evaporation is a common way to make sea salt. What about also use solar cells to pass current thru salt water?

When salt water is electrified using DC current, water will split into O2 and H2 and vaporize.

dcarch

Two selling operations are Portland and LongIsland. FortTildon is not far from you. Might be clean-(ish), : )

Interesting. Took a drive last night. A short one to some nearby harbors. A few new builds doing some good things with water collection and solar. Not any wind power here, even the smaller ones. Just taking notes and pictures for a renovation we need to do soon. A bad drought around 2004 where wells went dry. We were the only ones at the time with rain barrels. One for the garden drip irrigation and one in the back that has a direct overflow into the basement hand dug well....the house was built over it.

And we collected some iceberg bits for the cooler.

The salt making is just a small interest and found an effortless way this time. We will do solar next visit. This all just holiday fun. Back to work and NYC next week.

We don't use much salt but nice to have made our own and plenty to share.

Mind boggled, but I love the "iceberg bits"!! Is sea ice at all saline or does the salt separate out during freezing?

Icebergs are different than pack ice. We get pack ice in NY. Icebergs are 10-12 thousands yrs old and compressed pure water. They cackle and pop in cocktails. Releasing the compressed air bubbles. So pure that a crushed bit has a taste of 'nothingness'. This is one of the few places where they pass by daily or bits break off and roll to shore with the tide. One yesterday was the size of a football field above the water...only ten% is above water. They often run aground and can sit for weeks like the one around the point from us.

Here is a screenshot from IcebergFinders.com. where we track them.

They travel down from Greenland and often takes two years....and melt as they float by. It is sunny and 65 today. T-shirt weather and 'good on laundry'.

This is not Arctic weather but we did have a frost warning last night.

If the weather is foul it is a 'dirty day'. Not good on clothes. (no dryers here) All use laundry lines. So nice and fresh.