Obviously making sea salt requires you to have access to clean ocean water (I mean it doesn’t NEED to be clean BUT if you’re not nasty I would recommend clean ocean water). That being said, it is still a super cool process to learn about if you care about this type of thing.

This “how-to” recipe may be pretty self-explanatory, but honestly I didn’t know it was possible until recently. So I figure I will pass it a long for anyone else who didn’t know about it too.

This “how-to” recipe will take a most of your day (mostly passive time though). Sorry nothing I can do to speed up evaporation.

what you need

• Large stock pot
• sieve/strainer
• Cheese cloth
• Cookie sheet
• The ocean

How-to

1. Find a location on the ocean to collect ocean water.
   • Ideally you are able to find a location with clean ocean water. This is a loaded bag, because you want to consider where water treatment plants are near the ocean (my partner works in wastewater so that is something that he takes care of for me). Also, general pollution, being near swimming areas (people are NASTY), and general bacteria growth locations.
     • That makes it sound scary, but there are a lot of locations that are like this, it might just take a bit of thinking to find the right spot for you
2. Collect ocean water (I collect 4 gallons when I go)
3. Filter the ocean water with a sieve/strainer and a cheese cloth to filter out any ocean junk
4. Boil the water on medium/high heat until the water starts to “thicken” and show the salt sediment in it (once it starts, it finishes quicker than you’d think)
5. Turn the temp down to medium/low heat and continue cooking it. Keep an eye out and check on it every 20 minutes or so until most of the water is evaporated
6. Once the pot is mostly salt, turn down the heat to low and stir while you continue cooking off the rest of the moisture off of the salt. Cook until the salt is dry.
7. Lay the salt out flat on a cookie sheet and let it continue drying overnight. Collect into a mason jar and enjoy!
   • This will give you course salt. You can use a mortar and pestle to make it more fine, or use a blender or spice grinder. Or another crushing method you have, idk I am not here to tell you how to crush salt.

The sea salt we made tastes like salt. Yup, you heard it here folks, the salt from the ocean tastes like store-bought salt. You can add it to any of your favorite SNTD recipes. The turkey feta meatballs have an extremely high recommendation from my dad. He has been making them in 5lb batches and he says they are great because taste and they are very inexpensive compared to a lot of meals.

Let me know how this works for you!

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