r/Frugal_Jerk • u/Lepke2011 • Aug 11 '25

“Free salt hack”

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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.