I bought some of his salt as a gift this summer when I went on a road trip in Noto Peninsula. Such a down to earth guy! Support local businesses everyone!
I feel like Japan has the perfect blend of tradition and technology, their dedication allows them to preserve the treasures from the past and expand their imagination to the future.
Sophia Kim Let’s play 😂😂 what okay dude. Chill. We ain’t talking about wars past between korea and japan. We’re talking about modern Japan and their blend of technology and the arts.
Sophia Kim Let’s play can y’all Koreans just stop now, yes past Japanese was so proud that they destroyed Korean lives but that’s past now, don’t include other with ur hate towards the Japanese because I can tell u, that a lot of Japanese changed, those Japanese already died although a lot of their young ones are still prideful, but stop being salty
While in Japan, we were invited by a Japanese family to make misu from scratch. Holy cow, it was like doing hard labor for 6 hours. My back was killing me, my knees locked up and my arms almost fell off. I have a lot of respect for Japanese work ethic and a new appreciation for Japanese food.
I swear from katana swords to salt, everything the Japanese do is done with patience, determination, and frankly perfect at it's finest. What a wonderful people to learn from
Japan is a very rough place to live, isolated and materially poor. Their substandard iron meant their swords and tools needed incredibly skilled artisans to craft them. More or less the brilliance of Japanese craftsmanship is born from the limitations of Japanese resources and people rising to the challenge.
Johnny 2x4 you are absolutely right...worked for 12 years with Japanese office, meet around 120 people, can say 100 of them were racist and hard to work with.
Said someone who never lived that culture. Dude I'm from a 3rd world, so easy for u to type a comment from a decent life to the hardship of scraping by making salt.
If only the rest of the world were patient. If he did this in say America, he wouldn’t survive the harassment he would get for not fulfilling demand. Consumerism is a terrible trait to have...
Ryan Fadillah my grandpa had a forestry business in Idaho, he would be hired by state and local government to check a few acres of forrest to identify and remove diseased trees, as well as plant saplings.
not always better in what way? this salt has genuine history and soul behind it, and i guarantee that most things done by hand are generally a bit more quality
@@pandatobi5897 just that some things have a definite benefits from using industrial processes or hardly any downsides. Making salt this way is slow, i bet the quality is great sure but most people won't taste the difference from other salts if we are honest.
In my village every morning the kids and teenagers do this for about an hour but gallons and buckets. The way down to the stream is slippery clay. And some women go down with kids on their back and get gallons and buckets 😂
Japanese people are on a different level..i think they have this attitude that whatever you do,no matter how simple, you do it with tye best of your abilities.you put all your heart and soul in it..very admirable.
Theres something so soothing about Japan’s aesthetic. Even the language and the way Japanese speaks calms my soul. Aaaaah i want to visit you soonest Japan
@@heavenascended Yup. I can understand respecting a country's culture, but this thing with *worshipping* Japan that all the Millennial weebs have is just sick and weird. It's just a country like any other and they have their social problems too. I bet even Japanese people would think it's weird and cringey the way Western weeaboos talk about them. Heck, I would get uncomfortable if I heard anyone talking about my country (US) like that. It's one thing to say you like a country and want to visit...but the way these people are is just going too far.
@@tamim_alsulaiti Yes the subtitles only describe the gist of what he says, at least 1/3 (if not more) of what he actually says is straight up skipped.
@Olias However a decrease of salt concentration in water equals a decrease in its boiling point no? But yeah compared to the scale of the ocean, it's still negligible.. To reall desalinate the ocean you would require a fleet of autonomous solar powered desalination factory drones at a large global scale, I could only imagine.
by looks if it. It looks he lack of sleep or naturally (some people have puffy eyes naturally which mostly old people). If it's by salt then he would be have an eye infection.
For everyone saying its sleep it most likely isnt. The Na+ in NaCl or salt, is a very potent hypertensive (it causes high blood pressure). Since the salt is really fine and powder like, there is no doubt he will inhale some of it on accident causing him to take in lots of sodium accidentally. This causes high blood pressure which causes his puffy eyes. This also happened to Salt mine workers I believe do correct me if I'm wrong.
Here are some cool facts: There are three types of enden salts. Agehama, or "raise to the beach," enden salt is made by the very laborious process of bringing seawater onto land in buckets by hand and distilling and rendering the salt through prepared clay salt plans. Today agehama enden salt is made at only one location in Japan-on the Okunoto salt farm on the Noto Peninsula-where it is preserved as an Authentic Cultural Property. Irihama, or "flood the beach," enden salt involves flooding clay salt pans taking advantage of the tides. Both processes entail repeated raking and re-saturating the concentrated sandy brine with new seawater and finally boiling to crystalize the salt. The ryuka enden, or "sloping salt-terrace," method of making salt replaced most other forms of enden salt making in 1955 and was used until 1971. It includes streaming the seawater down vertical racks of bamboo branches, called shijoka, after it has been concentrated by air and wind evaporation in sloping clay pans. A resurgence of this kind of enden salt-making is underway, and Japan’s coastline, especially around the Seto Inland Sea, is once again dotted with ryuka enden salt-making workshops. Enden salts have a salty, mineral quality in terms of taste and texture because of the trace land minerals absorbed and finer grains formed in the process of making them. Ryuka enden salts can also have a vegetal taste and aroma. Enden salts tend to be unrefined, and as a result, they are often moist salts with a slightly sharp taste. The dry and roasted versions are the most mild.
I love learning about Japan, the work ethic, and living in balance, along with spirit of invention, is really unmatched anywhere. The people strive to be the best at something. If the whole world were like this, there would be no problems. Respect your elders, the land, and your culture.
@@PescarStangaci If the salt were packed in anything that wasnt air tight, it would pull smells/taste from moisture in the air. It would change his consistency and taste. Plastic bags are the most cost effective way to preserve taste and quality.
I have a feeling that people in this comment section don't realize why he's doing it the way that's technically the "hardest way". If you're familiar with Japanese culture then this will come as no shock to you but the Japanese, however modern they may seem, do like to keep traditions alive. He said that they've been harvesting sea salt that way for 400 years! He probably feels a great honor and responsibility to keep the process the way it is. That's the main reason but another reason could be that this process brings out the most flavor. Using machinery, while it does save time by cutting corners, usually isn't the best way to bring out the flavor in food, that takes time. With the high demand of the salt, who knows if they're going to introduce more and more machinery into the process. But for now, let's all enjoy the tradition and enjoy the salt!
There's no good reason to expect that pumping the water and spraying it onto the sand would change the flavor whatsoever, compared to hauling it up in buckets. If you want to claim that it would, then you need some actual backing for that opinion IMHO. It spends miniscule time in the buckets, it'd spend miniscule time in the piping, only difference is that in one method dude busts his ass for hours. And you can't taste wasted effort.
@@sowellfan "[They] create a series of interlocking shallow ponds that are exposed to the sun and wind. As the water evaporates and the salt concentrates... the salt starts to crystallize and can be harvested. Get this: the whole process takes about five years!" (www.google.com/amp/s/www.thekitchn.com/come-along-on-a-159478%3famp=1) "Sea salt begins by bringing sea water into large shallow, interlocking ponds that we call concentrators. Over the course of a couple of seasons we will evaporate the water from these ponds via sun and wind until it is fully concentrated into a brine. From there we will put the brine into crystallizers where the sea salt will precipitate out." (www.cargill.com/salt-in-perspective/sea-salt-harvesting-in-san-francisco) "[I] let the contraband sit overnight until the sand falls to the bottom of the container, as in an hour glass, allowing me to pour the water through a chinoise and into shallow, round baking pans. They sit in the sun two days or four. The length of time for evaporation depends on the season, the sun, the humidity, the morning dew, the evening breeze, the volume of water and perhaps several other factors I have yet to grasp" (boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/mining-salt-from-the-sea/) I'm not a salt expert so I don't know if it impacts the taste or not. I was making an educated guess, but from what I've read, the only machinery used to speed up the evaporation process, if they use any at all. But I can safely say from all that I've read that this guy isn't wasting effort, he *has* to bring the water up in buckets because he doesn't live next to to ocean. Not to mention how dangerous that would be (if you don't take into account the giant rocks) since he lives in Japan, but he needs the buckets. I couldn't see the hose that the other comment pointed out and I wouldn't even know what that would be for, like I said, I'm not a salt expert. But you do need to realize to him it's most likely not wasted effort, even if you take into account the process of salt making. It's like this article says, "Mexican inhabitants of these islands are still harvesting salt from the ocean today, the same way their ancestors have done it for hundreds of years" (www.google.com/amp/s/m.outdoorrevival.com/instant-articles/harvesting-salt-from-the-ocean-a-great-skill-to-learn.html/amp). I said this before and you seem to have not understood it or just didn't seem to care but to him this isn't wasted effort, this is upholding a tradition. Traditions and there importance differs from place to place but, as I said, it's very important to the Japanese. Not to mention that they also value hard work above all else. It's a different way of life but the only way you can rush salt production is by speeding up the gathering process and evaporatio process. This guy isn't living close enough to the water to have it flood into a pool and he is using the traditional way of evaporating the water, by sunlight. I'm sorry if you felt as if I was being rude but I'm just trying to educate people because some may not know this. Just try and consider different points of view, a different way of life. Thank you if you've read this far.
Loved seeing that his business is booming, too many traditional techniques for harvesting food or preparing ingredients have faded away, hearing that this traditional way of harvesting salt seems to be continuing makes me happy
@@samkostos4520 calm down. I was referencing a great movie AND giving praise to Japanese culture. If you want neither, fine, be a snowflake who gets offended for others.
It really bums me out when people comments contain the ideas that one culture is better than another. I can greatly appreciate this man and everything he does, but every culture is valuable in it's own way. There is no need to put down one culture to elevate another.
@@wzr3293 you must be bored, yes i saw it was a 2 week old comment, doesn't mean i wasn't going to post that too having just saw the video for the first time. and not bothering too once i read his post.
@@mr.snaplles5964 cool, you trying to tell me posting on 2 week old comments is illegal, or assuming i cant see that?....most likely you 2 are just trolling...must be nice to be 12 again.
jdz exactly. It’s just living. You can go to your office 40-60 hours and be completely divorced from how your food is made. It’s just a package to us. Much less easy to be mindful of waste when it’s so convenient
Oh man, it's been far too long since I have seen Archimedes screw being mentioned anywhere. I had to search online for it. This is a good idea, but I wonder whether sand will be able to support the structure at all. Alternatively they could make a small canal and use gravity to bring the water closer to them and eliminate walking time.
@@cap5856 I'm not a big fan of using electrical stuff to be honest, unless it is run on green energy. My country's air is already polluted by foreign companies outsourcing refinery, pharmaceutical and manufacturing jobs to us. The salt in my country is made by drawing seawater and letting it collect in open flat areas and evaporate. Hence salt here so cheap, at ₹15 - ₹20 a kilo (1US$ = ₹72.)
I've seen a lot of videos about how Japanese people work and tbh, all of them treats their job or work delicately and with outmost respect. This man is one of them
The reason why I have a great respect for Japan is even though they reach the Robotic Era, the spirit of their culture are still there. Respect to Japan ✌
No, that would be like using a horse to turn a mill to make bread flour. Being stuck in the past isn't very productive especially since he's talking about expansion and keeping up with demand.
@@xjinit There's a difference, this is a premium product it's not meant to be productive and mass produced. It's meant to be a premium product that is made with love, time, and maintains tradition. Not everything should be mass produced for the sake of production. When you mass produce a product it losses most of it's quality because to mass produce you must cut corners. This guy doesn't care about making tons of money what he cares about is he enjoys his job, he enjoys his traditions, and he wants to provide this tradition to people. He's expanding because more people want his product and the reason people want his product is because of the work that goes into it and the quality that comes out of that hard work.
After watching his hardwork, I'll say all those mangas r not wasted. Due to indomitable spirit of Japanese people, everyone knows its name despite being such a small island. Japan is like whole next level of civilization.
Thanks you so much👏👏👏👏👏 for sharing your love of making the natural sea salt,I have never seen this way of making salt. Please share your knowledge to the children of Japan so that this tradition stays alive. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@bramdingemanse6345 well if you're malnourished and don't have enough salt you can actually die. Saw someone pass out due to dehydration even though they were drinking lots of water. No salt to hold the water in their system
@@ZeusAndKiller no im sure he dont just dip his buckets. He must feel the sand underneath, the frequency of the waves, the temperature and a whole bunch of things he kept secret. Its the japanese way you see, meticulous but with perfect end results. (Im just kidding to be clear)
Most salt in Japan is still produced the modern way... they even say he's one of the last ones doing it this way. So this isnt really a Japan thing if you ask me
@@MinttMeringue It's a technique used in only certain geographic area on a Japanese island developed by the Japanese. This could only be more Japanese if he had a school girl tentacle monster helping him.
@@jacksongoss2389 yeah, and there's a couple of other salt harvesting techniques for other areas (someone commented on them and the wiki pages were interesting). But most people there still buy normal salt and such so. Idk, I just wouldnt go and drool over the Japanese over this lol
I love stuff like this, i think even rome had a high demand for salt and it was more valuable then gold at one point back then if im not wrong, Japan is fascinating because as a westerner i have always been surrounded by that roman style society so its so cool to see something so unique
I bought some of his salt as a gift this summer when I went on a road trip in Noto Peninsula. Such a down to earth guy! Support local businesses everyone!
Mexico is great, because it has so many local businesses
Also, did it taste good?
If the product is good, and has a good price, then sure.
@@Fy64 sell cocaine and weed?
@@Fy64 wait Mexico? Isn't the guy in the video Japanese?
I feel like Japan has the perfect blend of tradition and technology, their dedication allows them to preserve the treasures from the past and expand their imagination to the future.
That's if the population will last
What a beautiful way too put it
Sophia Kim Let’s play 😂😂 what okay dude. Chill. We ain’t talking about wars past between korea and japan. We’re talking about modern Japan and their blend of technology and the arts.
@Sophia Kim Let’s play bruh, what's the connection?
Sophia Kim Let’s play can y’all Koreans just stop now, yes past Japanese was so proud that they destroyed Korean lives but that’s past now, don’t include other with ur hate towards the Japanese because I can tell u, that a lot of Japanese changed, those Japanese already died although a lot of their young ones are still prideful, but stop being salty
He said a lot more than that first subtitle.
Also whomever put white subtitles in front of salt. You had one job.
I was wondering why it took him so long to say that...
Yeah I too was wondering that 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol
He also says after the first subtitle that since it’s a treasure, you have to use it carefully or else you’ll lose the value.
💀💀
Nobody mentioned how great this man's voice is to listen to. Old people are so valuable
They are, their knowledge can be very useful in hard times when the young are at a lost.
@@larrytherustyboii7442 For me, it's their recipes for food
Yes! No dangerous vaccines old people are very valuable!!
@@sexiestmanalive7338 Oh the irony.
True! His voice is good to listen at!
Some middle aged Japanese men aren't lucky since some of them have high pitched annoying voice for a man...
While in Japan, we were invited by a Japanese family to make misu from scratch.
Holy cow, it was like doing hard labor for 6 hours. My back was killing me, my knees locked up and my arms almost fell off.
I have a lot of respect for Japanese work ethic and a new appreciation for Japanese food.
Very nice ratio you got there
@Bad Mash here comes the "tough guy"
You got exhausted making soup. Seriously.
Robert Seba tough guy? 6 hours of labor isn’t something to fuss about.
@@JM-dy4ty I don't think time is the only thing that matters here. Both the intensity and the duration of the work are important.
I swear from katana swords to salt, everything the Japanese do is done with patience, determination, and frankly perfect at it's finest. What a wonderful people to learn from
Japan is a very rough place to live, isolated and materially poor. Their substandard iron meant their swords and tools needed incredibly skilled artisans to craft them. More or less the brilliance of Japanese craftsmanship is born from the limitations of Japanese resources and people rising to the challenge.
They have truly amazing craftsmanship in everything they do.
Johnny 2x4 you are absolutely right...worked for 12 years with Japanese office, meet around 120 people, can say 100 of them were racist and hard to work with.
Said someone who never lived that culture. Dude I'm from a 3rd world, so easy for u to type a comment from a decent life to the hardship of scraping by making salt.
If only the rest of the world were patient. If he did this in say America, he wouldn’t survive the harassment he would get for not fulfilling demand. Consumerism is a terrible trait to have...
“A master will always find his path no matter his talents” - Yoirichi Tsukuni
Ok baby
Master of none.
100% agree
Who ??tf cares
I bet it's some dumb anime character
There’s something very relaxing and calming about the entire process. Just watching it makes feel so at peace
I bet you'd snap by how much work you'd need to do just to get a little amount of salt
(Also you'd go bankrupt doing this outside Japan)
@@patricioart4301 chill bro im just talking about watching this video. no one said this business was lucrative or easy.
The music helps lol o
Might have something to do with the music. Try changing the music to "hammer smashed face" with canibal corpse and see if you think its as relaxing.
Normal woodcutter “chops tree” Japanese woodcutter “plants seed, takes care of it for 20 years, then chops tree.”
Better then deforestation. It's atleast good to plant a tree sappling for every tree you cut down.
Forestry companies will plant trees as well. Most trees planted in the United States are done so by forestry companies.
@@taoliu3949 give one example
@@OgaKunieda Idaho Forest Group. Honestly, pretty much any forestry within the USA harvests what they grow. It's not much different to farming crops.
Ryan Fadillah my grandpa had a forestry business in Idaho, he would be hired by state and local government to check a few acres of forrest to identify and remove diseased trees, as well as plant saplings.
He’s using earths resources to not only make a living but to teach young people. Respect ✊
Who else got a great big story ad while watching this?
Edit: Lol we got lots of peeps here
The mocchi pounder
@@tegarachsendo9730 hah me too
I got mochi pounder and lego arm
Me. I saw the LEGO arm one and the Mochi guy. Lol
Hold on, they paid money for youtube to show their ads toward other people, then receive money from their own ads, what a genius idea. ._.
Amazing video. The old ones are hardly appreciated, but they're the best: a mastersmith talking about his art with passion is exactly what I need.
These videos are perfect length for sitting on the toilet
Man yousa quick
Exactly what I am doing 😅🤣😂
no 20-30 mins of pooping anything below that is a scam
Lol amature
...
@@superinvandrare9326 Big mood.
Came here to find out how japanese salt is made.
Left with respect for this humble and hard working japanese man🙏🏼
Facts bro
Moha amoubfus us
I left with many questions wanting to know how to extract sea salt from home. How does he remove the sand? 😭
For everything that exists, japan has a way more complicated way for it.
Blodershade Donald productions, but the result is probably much better AND at least they are keeping tradition alive
@@ttn20101 harder is not always better
not always better in what way? this salt has genuine history and soul behind it, and i guarantee that most things done by hand are generally a bit more quality
@@pandatobi5897 just that some things have a definite benefits from using industrial processes or hardly any downsides. Making salt this way is slow, i bet the quality is great sure but most people won't taste the difference from other salts if we are honest.
@@creativohugo facts
breh he must be strong af for doing that water run in the morning everyday for 23 years
who needs the gym when you have t h e o c e a n
Plot twist: He's training for Godzilla. Making salt is just a side effect.
In my village every morning the kids and teenagers do this for about an hour but gallons and buckets. The way down to the stream is slippery clay. And some women go down with kids on their back and get gallons and buckets 😂
@@coldwater5814 holy
@Hugh Jaanus oh ye
Japanese people are on a different level..i think they have this attitude that whatever you do,no matter how simple, you do it with tye best of your abilities.you put all your heart and soul in it..very admirable.
doing this everyday....this mans upper body strength is maxed out lvl 100
He can make it legendary and be stronger
This comment lol
His eyes too
The next one punch man
200m xp
Theres something so soothing about Japan’s aesthetic. Even the language and the way Japanese speaks calms my soul. Aaaaah i want to visit you soonest Japan
Weeb?
@Motivation ah yes, weeb
@Motivation You're a Millennial, aren't you? What is it with the Skinny Jeans Generation all having a weird fetish for Japan?
@@ct6502c they love japan so much that they forget how high japan's suicide cases are
@@heavenascended Yup. I can understand respecting a country's culture, but this thing with *worshipping* Japan that all the Millennial weebs have is just sick and weird. It's just a country like any other and they have their social problems too. I bet even Japanese people would think it's weird and cringey the way Western weeaboos talk about them. Heck, I would get uncomfortable if I heard anyone talking about my country (US) like that. It's one thing to say you like a country and want to visit...but the way these people are is just going too far.
Japanese Person - Talks for 2 hours
Subtitles - "Hello"
**says thousand words in Japanese**
Subtitles: *proceeds to write 2 words*
The subtitles are the ones that appear to be disproportionately short actually.
@@tmm4633 you serious?
@@tamim_alsulaiti Yes the subtitles only describe the gist of what he says, at least 1/3 (if not more) of what he actually says is straight up skipped.
@Outlege what are you talking about? It was the other way around
@@Itamaxification oh yeah, sorry the other way around
Folks like Ryoichi Toya are definitely Salt Of The Earth.
well said, dude.
Let's play a drinking game everytime any of yall see salt in the the comments take a shot of whatever. Oh ya you might be dead
@@sams9462
deep
Yes officer, it’s “salt”
XD
Lmao
Omg such an underrated comment
U wan sum salt on that wound?
Its a saltcaine
This kind of salt is the perfect seasoning for soup-based dishes yummmmm
He's fighting sea level rising two buckets at a time.
Lmao!
@Olias r/whooosh
@Olias well according to Americans, if climate change doesn't exist, neither can the water cycle right?
@Olias However a decrease of salt concentration in water equals a decrease in its boiling point no? But yeah compared to the scale of the ocean, it's still negligible..
To reall desalinate the ocean you would require a fleet of autonomous solar powered desalination factory drones at a large global scale, I could only imagine.
Henk - he still burning wood and the water still goes back to the ocean.
The salt will also be used.
*They have a way of doing everything.*
spookid_x
More like claiming chinese things theirs.
Porcelain, soy sauce, now even sea salt.
Lol
@@yuuki4560 No need to be mad, Japan is better than China.
@@elidrissii somehow thats true
@@yuuki4560 as far as i now chinese are the ones copying everyone...
Pretty sure he said the style is called agehama and it’s been around for 400 years. He wasn’t trying to steal- he said exactly what the style was lol
Are his eyes puffy from the salt? They seem swollen.
Hope he is ok, seems like a humble man.
Mhm it's the water retention
Radiation
@Andrew Pingwin let’s call it Fukushima salt
by looks if it. It looks he lack of sleep or naturally (some people have puffy eyes naturally which mostly old people). If it's by salt then he would be have an eye infection.
For everyone saying its sleep it most likely isnt. The Na+ in NaCl or salt, is a very potent hypertensive (it causes high blood pressure). Since the salt is really fine and powder like, there is no doubt he will inhale some of it on accident causing him to take in lots of sodium accidentally. This causes high blood pressure which causes his puffy eyes. This also happened to Salt mine workers I believe do correct me if I'm wrong.
This man is truly a master of his trade. It’s admirable.
Here are some cool facts:
There are three types of enden salts. Agehama, or "raise to the beach," enden salt is made by the very laborious process of bringing seawater onto land in buckets by hand and distilling and rendering the salt through prepared clay salt plans. Today agehama enden salt is made at only one location in Japan-on the Okunoto salt farm on the Noto Peninsula-where it is preserved as an Authentic Cultural Property. Irihama, or "flood the beach," enden salt involves flooding clay salt pans taking advantage of the tides. Both processes entail repeated raking and re-saturating the concentrated sandy brine with new seawater and finally boiling to crystalize the salt.
The ryuka enden, or "sloping salt-terrace," method of making salt replaced most other forms of enden salt making in 1955 and was used until 1971. It includes streaming the seawater down vertical racks of bamboo branches, called shijoka, after it has been concentrated by air and wind evaporation in sloping clay pans. A resurgence of this kind of enden salt-making is underway, and Japan’s coastline, especially around the Seto Inland Sea, is once again dotted with ryuka enden salt-making workshops.
Enden salts have a salty, mineral quality in terms of taste and texture because of the trace land minerals absorbed and finer grains formed in the process of making them. Ryuka enden salts can also have a vegetal taste and aroma. Enden salts tend to be unrefined, and as a result, they are often moist salts with a slightly sharp taste. The dry and roasted versions are the most mild.
But he said his salt has a mild taste!?
@@archankumarmyana40 He may've been talking about the dry variant
Too long didn’t read 🤪
white subtitle with salt scene what a great job you did back there
I feel like patience was invented in Japan.
@Ken Penalosa what?
@Ken Penalosa OH nO jApaN hAs a cRiMiNaL oRgAnIzAtIon
There are tons everywhere in the world my dude
@@jobertuy2130 JAPAN NUMBA 1
@@mnmnnmm Sure man
@Ken Penalosa fucks wrong with you bringing argument shit where it ain't needed??
I love learning about Japan, the work ethic, and living in balance, along with spirit of invention, is really unmatched anywhere. The people strive to be the best at something. If the whole world were like this, there would be no problems. Respect your elders, the land, and your culture.
Notice how he actually enjoys his job and is passionate about it... If only we could all be like him
You should work at a amazon warehouse . So much passion
It's staged
We don't and can't all love our jobs
This dude could add a discrete water pump and up his production big time without any "loss of quality"
there are several reason why he collected it that way
traditional but packs his salt in plastic bags?
@@PescarStangaci the production method is traditional. Obviously in a modern economy the distribution method must also be modern.
Don't mind me, i'm here to see how this discussion is going to develop.
@@PescarStangaci If the salt were packed in anything that wasnt air tight, it would pull smells/taste from moisture in the air.
It would change his consistency and taste. Plastic bags are the most cost effective way to preserve taste and quality.
Japanese are amazing. They are without a doubt one of the most hard working country in the world.
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@@user-dn6qy1ou1f B r e h
@M H Wouldn’t say that for America, as an American myself, our country sucks ass kinda
@@wyv_3rn then leave if you don't like it here
@M H you do realize i cant just _leave_ right? Like I have work and a whole ass life here, can’t really do that now, it’s too late smh
Absolutely beautiful. Japanese culture and their traditional ways are just pure art.
This guy is amazing
Have a great day!
Hey, you too!
Lol I won't
Bird Chirps , you too!
I have a feeling that people in this comment section don't realize why he's doing it the way that's technically the "hardest way".
If you're familiar with Japanese culture then this will come as no shock to you but the Japanese, however modern they may seem, do like to keep traditions alive. He said that they've been harvesting sea salt that way for 400 years! He probably feels a great honor and responsibility to keep the process the way it is.
That's the main reason but another reason could be that this process brings out the most flavor. Using machinery, while it does save time by cutting corners, usually isn't the best way to bring out the flavor in food, that takes time. With the high demand of the salt, who knows if they're going to introduce more and more machinery into the process. But for now, let's all enjoy the tradition and enjoy the salt!
There's no good reason to expect that pumping the water and spraying it onto the sand would change the flavor whatsoever, compared to hauling it up in buckets. If you want to claim that it would, then you need some actual backing for that opinion IMHO. It spends miniscule time in the buckets, it'd spend miniscule time in the piping, only difference is that in one method dude busts his ass for hours. And you can't taste wasted effort.
You can literally see a hose they use at 1:24 😂
@@sowellfan
"[They] create a series of interlocking shallow ponds that are exposed to the sun and wind. As the water evaporates and the salt concentrates... the salt starts to crystallize and can be harvested. Get this: the whole process takes about five years!" (www.google.com/amp/s/www.thekitchn.com/come-along-on-a-159478%3famp=1)
"Sea salt begins by bringing sea water into large shallow, interlocking ponds that we call concentrators. Over the course of a couple of seasons we will evaporate the water from these ponds via sun and wind until it is fully concentrated into a brine. From there we will put the brine into crystallizers where the sea salt will precipitate out." (www.cargill.com/salt-in-perspective/sea-salt-harvesting-in-san-francisco)
"[I] let the contraband sit overnight until the sand falls to the bottom of the container, as in an hour glass, allowing me to pour the water through a chinoise and into shallow, round baking pans. They sit in the sun two days or four. The length of time for evaporation depends on the season, the sun, the humidity, the morning dew, the evening breeze, the volume of water and perhaps several other factors I have yet to grasp" (boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/mining-salt-from-the-sea/)
I'm not a salt expert so I don't know if it impacts the taste or not. I was making an educated guess, but from what I've read, the only machinery used to speed up the evaporation process, if they use any at all.
But I can safely say from all that I've read that this guy isn't wasting effort, he *has* to bring the water up in buckets because he doesn't live next to to ocean. Not to mention how dangerous that would be (if you don't take into account the giant rocks) since he lives in Japan, but he needs the buckets. I couldn't see the hose that the other comment pointed out and I wouldn't even know what that would be for, like I said, I'm not a salt expert.
But you do need to realize to him it's most likely not wasted effort, even if you take into account the process of salt making. It's like this article says, "Mexican inhabitants of these islands are still harvesting salt from the ocean today, the same way their ancestors have done it for hundreds of years" (www.google.com/amp/s/m.outdoorrevival.com/instant-articles/harvesting-salt-from-the-ocean-a-great-skill-to-learn.html/amp). I said this before and you seem to have not understood it or just didn't seem to care but to him this isn't wasted effort, this is upholding a tradition.
Traditions and there importance differs from place to place but, as I said, it's very important to the Japanese. Not to mention that they also value hard work above all else.
It's a different way of life but the only way you can rush salt production is by speeding up the gathering process and evaporatio process. This guy isn't living close enough to the water to have it flood into a pool and he is using the traditional way of evaporating the water, by sunlight.
I'm sorry if you felt as if I was being rude but I'm just trying to educate people because some may not know this. Just try and consider different points of view, a different way of life. Thank you if you've read this far.
Whats the traditional Japanese way of healing a slipped disc?
Tradition is great and all but evolving is always better. If you don’t evolve you will be left behind in these changing times.
Japanese are incredible
Not all of them. Ahahha
Cindy lopez lol true
@@Coco-mk6lv like the mental health patients they enslave on these farms
Loved seeing that his business is booming, too many traditional techniques for harvesting food or preparing ingredients have faded away, hearing that this traditional way of harvesting salt seems to be continuing makes me happy
My mom: Aw, sorry sweetie, we forgot to bring the salt to the beach.
Me: *no*
We bought the salt to US!
White ppl only know salt lol
This is a lake
Why did i get a great big story ad on this vid...
lol same
Wtf same
Yea weird
Same aha
Me too
2:15 The struggle In his face
Bro that's literally just his face LMAO
@@y0blue bro check closely, he's almost struggling
@@onelivingplane4490 ur trolling bro, that's his face he's not struggling lmao he does this daily
matthew birch he’s not struggling just looks very tired and is shaking Literally
@@y0blue nah, look at his eyes, face, body, he's sweating and struggling man
Its these kind of crafts what makes you fall in love with the country
As nathaniel algrin said in 1850: “I have never seen a people so devoted and dedicated to their craft” (referring to the japanese)
CAPTAIN NATHAN ALGREN!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh wait he was real. Huh
weird
@@edie9158 no he wasn't lol
You guys and your fake historical characters. You made Leonidas an Irish man. Invented a fake Samurai
@@samkostos4520 calm down. I was referencing a great movie AND giving praise to Japanese culture. If you want neither, fine, be a snowflake who gets offended for others.
This is the coolest and most peaceful thing I’ve watched in months
Japanese : *does something*
Me : the Japanese are one of the best people in the world
They are
Some of the
Not all
Its because of hentai
Does saying this makes someone a weeb?
Wisdom and kindness written in the man's face. Salute!!!
Who’da Thought Such A Savoury Story Could Be
So Sweet !
Stop
大きな地震がありましたが、珠洲市の伝統と文化が守られ今後も続くことを願います
This reminds me of how beautiful the world is. Find ways to be reminded.
It really bums me out when people comments contain the ideas that one culture is better than another. I can greatly appreciate this man and everything he does, but every culture is valuable in it's own way. There is no need to put down one culture to elevate another.
2:29 My cocaine lab in GTA
fk you beat me to it XD
@@leeofthevoid by 2 weeks...
@@wzr3293 you must be bored, yes i saw it was a 2 week old comment, doesn't mean i wasn't going to post that too having just saw the video for the first time. and not bothering too once i read his post.
@leeofthevoid still they beat you by 2 weeks
@@mr.snaplles5964 cool, you trying to tell me posting on 2 week old comments is illegal, or assuming i cant see that?....most likely you 2 are just trolling...must be nice to be 12 again.
Someone ask him to visit nephrologist please, he must be having proteinuria as he has periobital swelling
Thank you for making this comment, I hope your recognition of his suffering reaches him
You might be a genius. I just researched what you said and it said the swelling can occur due to water retention as a result of large salt intake.
Lmfaooo, you're attributing it to nephrotic syndrome?
@@Uncultured_Swine69 more like chronic kidney disease because of hypertension
@@auliasilkapianis1482 or maybe hes just living his best life, living by the sea thug style.
Who else saw the beautiful scenery of the ocean and a hard working Japanese man and liked the vid b4 it even started.
What a honorable great man !
I hope the younger generation keeps this handcraft working on....
Japanese don’t see Work as WORK. They see it as an ART and seek to perfect it every way they can
jdz exactly. It’s just living. You can go to your office 40-60 hours and be completely divorced from how your food is made. It’s just a package to us. Much less easy to be mindful of waste when it’s so convenient
This is so cringy lol
@@dkdkrmfjr hi john
Yeah. That’s why they see crying at work as a good thing. It seems quaint, until you realize how torturous it actually is to be in this culture.
is this why they're overworked?
I thought he was gonna chop the water or something
Lol I thought he literally extracted salt from the oven , bare hands style.
Ok
Me too
Don't you need a stand for that?
???
When a technique for salt is twice as old your country
Jackson Goss
Chill bro
@@JerichoKRX ?
6 times in my case
@@hesoyam881 Where do you live
Jackson Goss Malaysia lol
I miss this channel so much. I just love it here.
Nobody may see this comment but,
*God bless this man* 🙏
I see you. Amen.
Copied for likes?
Someone get this man an Archimedes' screw.
Shouldn’t be too hard to build either
Oh man, it's been far too long since I have seen Archimedes screw being mentioned anywhere. I had to search online for it. This is a good idea, but I wonder whether sand will be able to support the structure at all.
Alternatively they could make a small canal and use gravity to bring the water closer to them and eliminate walking time.
@@cap5856 I'm not a big fan of using electrical stuff to be honest, unless it is run on green energy. My country's air is already polluted by foreign companies outsourcing refinery, pharmaceutical and manufacturing jobs to us. The salt in my country is made by drawing seawater and letting it collect in open flat areas and evaporate. Hence salt here so cheap, at ₹15 - ₹20 a kilo (1US$ = ₹72.)
Oh no
Anyway
@@gian2kk unnecessary comment is unnecessary
2:30 everyone: "what a cool way to make salt"
Gta players: "that ain't salt . . ."
Cocaine boi
Rubby on the nose
Devils sugar
Salt but for nose
Booger Sugar
I've seen a lot of videos about how Japanese people work and tbh, all of them treats their job or work delicately and with outmost respect. This man is one of them
Can’t wait for the anime where the MC told us that his grandpa said salt is the treasure of sea
You can tell that this man has worked very hard every day of his life
Why on earth is there any dislikes on this video? It’s so pure
I honor you
I will never look at a salt shaker the same way again. Talk about a meticulous and rewarding process!
"people living by the coast are blessed with treasures from the sea"
Tsunami: hello there!
tsunami = fukushima salt
The reason why I have a great respect for Japan is even though they reach the Robotic Era, the spirit of their culture are still there. Respect to Japan ✌
They: Great big story shows great big story ad.
Me: Obama giving medal to obama.
Medal of dishonor
Proud Patriot take the joke or get the fuck outta here!
@@pblegz3306 EXACTLY LOSER OBAMA!!! TRUMP 2020!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😤
@@cyruszdatvirusz1589 projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Not likely.
Them*
I like how your not translating most of what he says, it really gives us a connection to this man.
Respect for him and all those people for their hard work. Pls support this kind of livelihood.
They're literally preserving a tradition that's now become an art form.
Preserving it with salt
No, that would be like using a horse to turn a mill to make bread flour. Being stuck in the past isn't very productive especially since he's talking about expansion and keeping up with demand.
@@xjinit There's a difference, this is a premium product it's not meant to be productive and mass produced. It's meant to be a premium product that is made with love, time, and maintains tradition. Not everything should be mass produced for the sake of production. When you mass produce a product it losses most of it's quality because to mass produce you must cut corners. This guy doesn't care about making tons of money what he cares about is he enjoys his job, he enjoys his traditions, and he wants to provide this tradition to people. He's expanding because more people want his product and the reason people want his product is because of the work that goes into it and the quality that comes out of that hard work.
@@-Offstar why expand then?
@@xjinit Like I said because people want his product. More people want his product than he can supply so he needs to expand.
Everything in Japan, the people take it as treasure
Japan land of treasure
After watching his hardwork, I'll say all those mangas r not wasted.
Due to indomitable spirit of Japanese people, everyone knows its name despite being such a small island.
Japan is like whole next level of civilization.
I swear every time a Japanese speaks...i feel wiser.
Sh*tty Life Pro Tip: When a customer complains that there's dirt on their food, tell them it's simply "rich in minerals".
Number 15: Burger King Mineral Lettuce.
And micro plastics
And if it's from Japan "and radiant matter" Or if it's from china "and Virus"
“Salt is a treasure of the sea” so true 😌
Thanks you so much👏👏👏👏👏 for sharing your love of making the natural sea salt,I have never seen this way of making salt. Please share your knowledge to the children of Japan so that this tradition stays alive. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
with a water pump from lowe's hardware this guy could make enough salt to end world hunger
Knowing the japanese eye for quality, the water must be perfect enough to be selected.
How can you end world hunger with salt?
@@lawrencepatrick2486 he literally just dips his buckets in the ocean...
@@bramdingemanse6345 well if you're malnourished and don't have enough salt you can actually die. Saw someone pass out due to dehydration even though they were drinking lots of water. No salt to hold the water in their system
@@ZeusAndKiller no im sure he dont just dip his buckets. He must feel the sand underneath, the frequency of the waves, the temperature and a whole bunch of things he kept secret. Its the japanese way you see, meticulous but with perfect end results.
(Im just kidding to be clear)
Man, he’s probably got lots of emeralds from the paper he traded
bet he does :P
get in boat
Big brain.
CON D. ORIANO 🤛🏼
Only in Japan where the Japanese people never take anything for granted.
- Truth
@K L When you're top of the food chain you gotta eat.
Most salt in Japan is still produced the modern way... they even say he's one of the last ones doing it this way. So this isnt really a Japan thing if you ask me
K L don’t forgot about Red indian too
@@MinttMeringue It's a technique used in only certain geographic area on a Japanese island developed by the Japanese. This could only be more Japanese if he had a school girl tentacle monster helping him.
@@jacksongoss2389 yeah, and there's a couple of other salt harvesting techniques for other areas (someone commented on them and the wiki pages were interesting). But most people there still buy normal salt and such so. Idk, I just wouldnt go and drool over the Japanese over this lol
My full respect to how much hard work is done to create this salt.
0:01 *Me: Reads the subtitles in less than 2 seconds.* The guy: Talks for like 16 seconds. *Me: Confusion*
EXACTLY!!!
It just shows how more complex of a language it is
When he put that bit of salt on his hand I literally got shook
🤣
isn't that how rich people taste caviar?
damn his eyes even looks like hes been salty
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
wowwzas! this is so cool to learn about! I love the 🇯🇵 Japanese culture!
I like how Japan against east Asian nations keep its traditions alive and even blend it with modern society.
"Læsø salt": A 900 year old salt production from Denmark.
Offense to global warming?We need heroes like him fighting with salt xd.
he packs salt in plastic bags, plastic. Not much of a hero here
@@PescarStangaci you're right it's not like we can recycle the plastic that's literally impossible and never happens.
@Adrian S You gotta respond to Ross, dug yourself a hole lol
@@PescarStangaci its carbon neutral buddy
@@skipeveryday7282 one day there will be a way to decompose it, just wait
I love stuff like this, i think even rome had a high demand for salt and it was more valuable then gold at one point back then if im not wrong, Japan is fascinating because as a westerner i have always been surrounded by that roman style society so its so cool to see something so unique
What a blessed life to have such a natural profession that is in harmony with nature. This is the Japan that is in danger of vanishing.
The world as we know it
How do they separate the sand from the salt? They skipped over that part.
Look at the part where they put the sand in a box and drained it with sea water
My question exactly.
Distillation by boiling.
1:44 looks like the box acts as a filter and they run sea water through the sand to get the salt out of it.
@gerson Davinci What?
Imagine if you pranked this guy and told him that his salt was used on roads😂
Japanese craftsmen are so dedicated to their work, iam really impressed wooow
Please make an anime and title it: "The Rising of The Salt hero"
Nah it needs to be more broken english, " Hero Salt Rises: Night Book"
Babybell chz Hows that broken English you clown 🤣 It’s just a bunch of words you slapped together that isn’t funny
@@kushh1584 exactly. Anime!
@@js5072 lmfao
Man, fuck anime
Kidney: *write that down, write that down!*
Not a single dislike sometimes I love humanity
It brings me alot of joy listening to this man