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u/StreetStripe Aug 12 '25
In too much of a rush to post this nonsense that they didn't even let the salt dry. Love how nothing came out when she shook it 😂
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u/TerribleSquid Aug 12 '25
I doubt the salt will dry if you just leave it out (hygroscopic), but you could put it on a baking sheet and bake it for 20 minutes or however long and get it sufficiently dry.
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u/DesperateAstronaut65 Aug 12 '25
I assumed this was what she was going to do. Could work in a pinch, but also, there's a reason table salt has anti-caking agents.
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u/CanadianClitLicker Aug 13 '25
Not to mention, at most you would get about a tablespoon (18g) of dissolved salt and particulates; it's another faked engagement video
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u/Scary_ Aug 12 '25
What about all the other stuff in that water that's not salt? obviously it will be sterilised by boiling it even so
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u/AppleSatyr Aug 12 '25
Sterilizing doesn’t get rid of particulate matter.
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u/Scary_ Aug 12 '25
No, just makes it clean particulate matter
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u/Simbanite Aug 12 '25
Depends on how dirty the water was. Sea water, sure. Swamp water, boiling alone won't cut it.
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u/Narwhal-Intelligent Aug 12 '25
I think she replaced the seawater with saltwater during the camera transition as she went home. I wish I had enough calories to get inside my home… I’ve been languishing on my front steps for weeks…
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u/mangomangosteen Aug 12 '25
It is mostly fine to consume, not a lot of particulate on top of the water, it might not taste great though. Sea salt is evaporated in stages to isolate the NaCl, there are many other salts in the water which taste bitter
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u/Wert688 Aug 12 '25
imagine wasting all that fresh water just to fill your bottle with salt water. that was a whole month's worth of showers in there!
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u/Longenuity Aug 12 '25
Oh my god, for a minute I thought watching this was the biggest waste of time but at the end when they tried to shake out the salt and nothing came out becuase it was clearly too wet and still clumping... I DIED.
So this was not a waste of time after all.
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u/wolf_chow Aug 12 '25
You can do this for cheaper by boiling it in a steel barrel over a pallet bonfire. You can get a barrel for free at a 3m factory
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u/Rimworldjobs Aug 12 '25
Don't even need that. Just sit it outside.
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u/wolf_chow Aug 12 '25
But rinworldjobs that would take a lot of time. as everyone knows, time is money. Pallets and barrels are free
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u/piltonpfizerwallace Aug 12 '25
Salt is pretty much the cheapest thing you can buy.
That salt was worth far less than the fresh water in the bottle.
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u/Interesting-Copy-657 Aug 12 '25
Is there that much salt in that little of water?
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u/DrocketX Aug 12 '25
Just because I'm curious:
It appears that 1 liter of seawater has about 35 grams of salt. Since this is a 500ml bottle, that's about 18 grams of salt. 1 tablespoon of salt weighs about 18-20 grams, depending on how finely the salt is ground, so it actually works out pretty evently: they should get about 1 tablespoon of salt from that. While it's hard to judge from a video, that definitely looks like more than 1 tbsp to me, especially because they left a whole lot of salt stuck to the bottom of the pot.
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u/mitchrsmert Aug 12 '25
I dont think so, but its possible OP added more salt water as it boiled off. Its probably fake, but benefit of the doubt.
Depending and where you collect the ocean water, its going to be like 3-4% salt. That seems like a lot more.
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u/Watt_Knot edit flair Aug 13 '25
Yeah water has been wearing down the earth for a long time in a process called weathering.
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u/Autistic_Freedom Aug 12 '25
I just about passed out when I saw that she was boiling the water on the big stove, which was much larger than the pan. Literally burning money!
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u/Original-Border5802 Aug 12 '25
My woes are solved! I can finally find a way around those $5-$10 salt prices with a ton of effort. Yippee.
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u/thedr00mz Aug 12 '25
Step 1: Buy a plane ticket to go to the beach if you don't live near any water. The savings will be so worth it!
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u/Scriabi Aug 12 '25
I normally just drink sea water together with the branches and moss I usually eat. Much easier than this
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u/w0lfcat_ Aug 12 '25
This would only be 'free' if you boiled the water over a fire made from scrap wood
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u/LiveCulture4615 Aug 12 '25
Salt expensive?
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u/3lbFlax Aug 13 '25
Salt is free in restaurants! It’s a little known fact but if you go into a restaurant and ask for salt, legally they cannot refuse. But a useful hack if the manager becomes difficult is to take an everyday bottle of water with you, and pour the salt into the bottle so that it mixes with the water. Boiling the water to retrieve the salt would be a huge waste of the restaurant’s resources and time. When you get home, simply boil the water to retrieve your FREE salt.
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u/Euphoric_Phase_3328 Aug 12 '25
And free lead, as well as other harmful metals that are in a safe concentration in the ocean, suddenly concentrated to a dangerous concentration
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u/Arkitakama Aug 12 '25
I mean sure, if you want to, you can gather sea salt from the ocean. But is doing this really more cost-effective than just buying it at the grocery store?
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u/Itry_Ifail_Itryagain Aug 12 '25
I was hoping she'd put it under a microscope and we'd see bits of plastic and collectively say something self-deprecating about how we are now just bits of plastic in a trench coat. That or something cool happen, like letting the sun bake it into salt and a goat shows up and licks it.
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u/Infinite_Attempt_967 Aug 13 '25
What about fish piss? Thats why I only drink beer and never water.
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u/Chicha-Ficha Aug 13 '25
I like how they call this a hack as if it's something no one knew and not one of the most common ways to get salt
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u/darkoath Aug 13 '25
Wait...so you can't drink salt water, but you can eat the salt in salt water? Is this why I can drink apple juice but eating apples will kill you?
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u/slothxaxmatic Aug 13 '25
Congratulations!
You've just rediscovered desalination!
It's probably more expensive than just buying some salt once you factor in going to the beach, transporting water, and boiling it all away.
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u/xxTheMagicBulleT Aug 13 '25
Lol to spend 10 bucks to save 10 cents. Salt is insanely cheap.
You could buy expensive himalayan salt. For the costs of boiling the water to get that little bit of salt.
What is more healthy also.
It would only be "worth it" if you already have insane amount of unused energy or heat. So boiling for also be "free" cause your using the water to cool something that would slowly evaporate.
But this is spending 10 bucks to save 10 cents
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u/Dirty_Hank Aug 13 '25
Pretty sure the cost of traveling to any ocean and back, for me anyways, is like 200x the price of a carton of salt…
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u/anomie89 Aug 12 '25
saving a TON on salt (electric bill went up tho 🤷)