I Made Sea Salt from Ocean Water - Here’s What Happened! Ep:17
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Making Our Own Sea Salt from the Ocean!
We headed out on the boat to collect fresh seawater, bringing back 5 liters for our DIY salt-making experiment.
The Process:
• Boiled the seawater until nearly all the water evaporated.
• Kept a close eye on it as the liquid got low, stirring frequently.
• Once the salt dried up and loosened from clumps, we transferred it to the oven at 100°F for 10 minutes to remove any remaining moisture.
• Crushed the salt using a rock stone bowl or a rolling pin for a finer texture.
To take it up a notch, we learned from our friend Tom (Nature’s Chef) in Sooke that adding tiny pieces of dried kelp makes the salt even better-bringing out extra flavor and minerals!
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How to Safely Harvest Seawater for Salt in BC:
1 Choose the Right Location - Collect water from clean, unpolluted areas away from harbors, marinas, or places with heavy boat traffic. Remote coastal spots (like Tofino, Haida Gwaii, or parts of Vancouver Island) are ideal.
2 Check for Red Tide & Water Quality - BC occasionally experiences harmful algal blooms (red tide), which can produce toxins. While these mostly affect shellfish, it’s good to check local advisories before collecting seawater.
3 Harvest on a Rising Tide - This ensures you’re getting fresher, cleaner water rather than stagnant near-shore water.
4 Filter Before Boiling - Use a fine mesh strainer or cheesecloth to remove debris, seaweed, or small particles before boiling.
5 Boil & Dry Properly - Follow the steps you already used:
◦ Boil seawater until nearly evaporated.
◦ Dry in a low-temperature oven (100°F) to remove excess moisture. **(I would recommend not drying it out too much, you don’t want it to look like baking soda. I had to had some water to mine)
◦ Grind to desired consistency.
6 Enhance the Flavor - Adding dried kelp or other local seaweeds (as your friend Tom suggested) can give your salt an umami-rich boost!
BC’s ocean water is naturally rich in minerals, making for excellent flaky, mineral-packed sea salt-perfect for cooking!
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Disclaimer:
We are not professionals, and this video is for entertainment and educational purposes only. If you choose to make your own sea salt, please research proper safety precautions and ensure you are sourcing seawater from a clean, safe location. Always check local water quality advisories before harvesting.
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The sea water up around HG is some of the cleanest. The murky is probably just water being churned up because of weather. I so love watching your channel. We used to live in HG and always says that I left 1/2 my soul there. It is truly a -- (trying to find words) magical/soulful/humbling/amazing place
We love hearing that! It’s been such fun sharing this with you and everyone! Have to keep ourselves busy here as well. I don’t think we would have ever made it out to Haida Gwaii if it weren’t for this job. So grateful to experience this magical place. Matt was in the forest just sitting and felt / heard vibrations/ energy within. Very fascinating!
Sea salt could be a unique gift for your family when you get home.
That’s a great idea!
@@Claysanas yes we would love some lol
Watching you scrape the bottom of the pot brought back memories. My daughter and her friend wanted to make sea salt at my house in Victoria. I let them use Teflon cookie pans on my electric range. The electricity offset the cost of heating the house, so no problem. The cookie pans never made cookies again 😂
Oh no! Haha 😂
Vou fazer,ja que moro em frente a praia 👋👏👏👏👏
I have always collected my water from the shore and just avoid where it is dirty from wave action. It is amazingly simple and can be done on a wood stove top where you refill your pot several times before drying it out.
Great project. Well done.
Awesome, great project, natural minerals 🧂👌🏼
Well, when you heat it you loose some minerals like e.g. iodine
There is no need to bring it to a boil. Obviously, a boil works faster but a slow evaporation works well also. We have a huge sea salt plant nearby. They use large ponds and let the air dry it out. They keep their ponds 10 to 60 millimeters deep only flooding more sea water as they evaporate. After 18 months they finally dry the ponds for another month. It is washed and filtered then fully dried.
You will find that your salt reforms crystals quite easily and need to regrind it periodically. ENJOY. What you have there is really precious and will be fun for you to use.
Very cool way to create your own salt! I lived on the North Carolina coast for 12 years- we even had a boat- and never thought to do what you did. I did make some spruce tip salt while in Alaska this past summer. That might be a nice flavor profile to try since you also have lots of spruce surrounding the lodge.
We do have lots of spruce and have a friend on Van island that uses spruce in food. It’s absolutely amazing!
That was so cool. Does it taste different from regular salt. What about the texture.
WOW!
What an awesome experiment that is so cool🤩
It was definitely fun!
I don’t know diddly about making sea salt, but I was very happy to see your new lavender knit hat 😊
Pretty cool!
Boredom has certainly found a friend you guys need to find fish to have something to use your salt on.
We made some a couple of years ago, and instead of boiling it we put it in the sun and let it evaporate naturally. Took a while but it crystallized really well.
That’s really interesting! We’ll have to try that when we have sunshine, maybe in the summer 😂
Good for you guys. That salt will still have all of it's minerals in it. Far healthier than store bought table salt.
I was surprised how much salt you got from the 5litres of water. I liked this format, short one subject.
Aqui temos salinas em cabo frio, Arararuama RJ.no fogo acho até que o processo é mais rápido,mas pra pouca quantidade de sal
Very cool
how long did it take to get to the dehydrate to a stage of clumps? this is really cool!
Depends on the quantity of water, but around 1-1/2 hours or so. I wouldn’t recommend leaving it in the oven for too long, as it made it look like baking soda. I think the consistency just before I took it out of the pot was great! I had to add a little bit of water to mine to make it more flaky
how much gas did you use to make all that salt???
cool!
What's the byproduct of your desalinization plant?
Well done project. Not to be a nudge on my part, did you consider the amount of modern pollution ( micro plastics, chemicals, etc.) That modern sea water contains? You may want to have the end result tested for contamination, that suggestion applies to industrial sea salt production also. FYI.. salt mined from the ground was deposited millions of years in the past, the oceans were much cleaner at that time.
Let me know the results,am very interested
Wow! I’m surprised you got that much salt out of a relatively small amount of water. Is it for your popcorn?😮
Of yes! We’ll have to think of some other ideas!
@@Claysanas sprinkle some on your chocolate chip cookies. but popcorn would be the best I think.
Filter the sea water through a coffee filter.
Sorry, I commented early in the video.
Don‘ thake a aluminium pan!
Have you ever thought of what all marine life have done in that order?😂 just joking.😮 sorry that was supposed to be water.
Have you ever thought of what all marine life have done in that order?😂 just joking.😮
A lot of energi and gas, for a science project
We weren’t out there just to collect water for a science project. But then again, I can see how people might imagine that on the internet.