HOW TO MAKE SALTS ?

Salts is an ingredient that should exist in every home. Because can not live without
salts. have you ever wondered where the salt come from? In this article, we'll entering
amazing world of the salts, so that you can understand what youre accustomed.
The first step is to make the salt sea water flowing through channel toward to the
shelter. This shelter is useful to reduce the salinity of sea water. From thes helter, water will
be channeled to them anufacture of salts.

Drainagechannelseawaterintothe
shelter

Water reservoirs

The water is drained, then put in a large pot size with of the length and width of 1 and
2 meters, and has a depth of 80 cm, and the water will be cooked for about 3 hours using
firewood and geuleupak (designations of the Acehnese). Once the water is boiling, then be
added the seeds salt from Madura as much as 40 pounds in a large pot with all the cooking
process
.

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Wood
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Woodandburnedgeuleupak

Seed salt

During the cooking process, the bubbles appear on the surface of the water must be
removed so as not to cause a yellowish color on the salt produced. Furthermore, during the
cooking process salts water to be stirred several times.

Scum that should be

discarded

The process ofstirringthe

saltwater

After several hours, the water had been turned intosalt cooked. Then salt should be
allowed to stand for 1 hour. After that, moved into a sack and drained in a special place until
dry.

The saltfinished

The saltisdrained

Finally, the results of the drained salts ready to be packed into sacks. Each bag
contains 40 kg of salts.

The salt are packaged

Making salt is something that a bit complicated because it requires time and a long
process, also requires great energy. In addition to generating a good salt, remaining salt water
will turn into white crystals, on the other hand the rest of the wood burning ash would be
useful to be used as manure.