How Much Salt do you have?

[Devonian]

(17 February 2015, 19:50)Tarrel Wrote: We live by the sea so..well, you work it out.:-)

So do I, I'm only a 5 minute walk from the sea, but the amount of time and effort it would take to collect, boil and dry out say 10kg of salt would no way be worth the effort when compared with spending £5 now.....

You get about 35g of salt from 1 litre of sea water, so you need about 300 litres of sea water to produce 10kg of salt, so that would be quite labour intensive and take days maybe weeks to produce by the times its collected/carried back to your property, boiled, processed etc.

I'd prefer spending that time hunting, trapping, foraging, fishing, growing etc.

But there could still be a time when supplies have been exhausted and we would need to make our own salt, but I'd personally prefer to put that off for as long as possible.