Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Are you worth your weight in salt? In today's modern world salt is readily available and relatively cheap to purchase, but remove your ability to buy salt and you will soon discover how valuable this mineral truly is.

In this video I explore a simple yet effective method to acquire salt from the ocean. Do this at your own discretion because some places in the world may be too contaminated to safely consume the salt.

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Key moments:
00:00 Introduction
01:36 Eating raw kelp
02:16 Avoid kelp that is not fresh
02:35 Hiking up a coastal bluff
03:26 Placing the kelp out to dry
04:09 Stages of drying the kelp
04:31 Gathering the salty kelp
05:09 Scraping the salt off the kelp
06:51 Taste test
07:21 Exploring the beach
08:33 Making a stone flake quick
09:37 Cleaning the bones
11:00 Primitive hair comb
11:52 Finding more kelp
12:33 Drying kelp in a hut
12:47 Scraping the salt from dry kelp

Music credit:
Drums of the Deep by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0