How do you make sea salt?

First you get the sea water and boil it vigourously for 30 minutes to kill micro-organisms and also reduce the volume thus concentrating the salt. Then you allow to cool and filter it through filter paper with very fine pores (1 micrometer). following that, allow the water to evaporate. When most of the water has evaporated, spread the residue (salt) out onto a sheet of black plastic and allow to dry in direct sunlight. Grind up the resultant sea salt. Be aware that the salt prepared in this way is not purified and will also contain all other minerals and chemicals that the water contained, but these are generally very low.

If you want to make sea salt for a class, then you'll need to get a large shallow (no more than two inches deep) container. Fill that with salt water and let the 'water' evaporate. Then you'll need to 'wash it' ... literally, put PURE clean water into the container and let it 'drain' then add another bit of clean water and let it evaporate. I can't help you do it the way the people who sell sea salt in the stores do, but those vary. BEWARE though, because when you 'wash' your salt, some of the salt is going to be 'washed away' in the water, so you'll have less 'sea salt' than you had when the first 'sea water' evaporated.

The best would be to have a continually running flow of seawater so you can accrue salt; then I'd think you'd need to wash the salt off with clean water and dry that out. Keeping the salt moving & agitated would help prevent the salt from just scaling on whatever container you're using.

However, it's probably easier, cleaner, and cheaper (not to mention that it might be safer) just to buy it at a grocery store.

Salt deposits are the result of evaporated ocean water. Hence, mined salt is the same as sea salt. Stated another way: all commercial salt marketed for the table is the result of evaporated sea water. So-called "Sea Salt" has merely crystallized more recently. Bada bing, bada boom!

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How do you make sea salt?

I know you have to "evaporate sea water" then "clean the salt". Can someone explain the details of these two processes? Do I just put out a bucket of sea water and wait for it to all dry up?

You don't need to clean the salt. Natural sea salt is not white and it is not dry. It is a little gray with minerals and feels damp or clumps in humidity. Its easier to just buy the unrefined salt from suppliers. Google for unrefined salt.

Ya don't make sea salt, ya collect it.

As for the process, I believe that I saw something on TV bout it once.

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This link explains the harvest process

.http://www.frontiercoop.com/learn/savvy/seasalt.ht...

There is no clean sea salt.

Sea salt comes from the ocean, it's dirty even after its processed.

The best salt to use is Kosher salt, it doesn't come from the sea and doesn't come from the crap infested ocean.

That's pretty much it. Let the water evaporate and the salt is all that is left. You might want to filter the sea water first so you don't have to "clean" the salt afterward.

Just take it to a desilanization plant an get the salt from there.