Why Bamboo Salt Is So Expensive | So Expensive
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Jugyeom, or nine times roasted bamboo salt, sometimes also known as purple bamboo salt, can cost almost $100 for an 8.5-ounce jar. To make bamboo salt, sea salt must be repeatedly roasted inside of bamboo at temperatures over 800 degrees celsius. The goal is to enrich the salt with minerals and to reduce toxicity. But depending on where you buy it, purple bamboo salt can cost more than 10 times the price of pink Himalayan salt. That labor-intensive process makes purple bamboo salt the most expensive salt in the world.
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Why Bamboo Salt Is So Expensive | So Expensive
Most of these episodes have only 2 explanations:
1. It's rare
2. It's labor intensive
sometimes these are just an excuse to ask for those prices, all i've seen are these getting packed, cut and burned in an oven. Im sure those workers don't see half of what those sell for
That's how the world works though.
@@thespooner3906 it takes 50 days to make a.few salt cash is made from paid workers. They do have to make a profit. And tge workers are paid a good amount
@@ninek8 yea ik, so these videos are just repetitive, like i don't even have to watch the video to know why it's expensive
Just a fancy salt. Still not going to help with your high B/P
*"First of all, being a salt, bamboo salt has salty flavor."*
every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes.
The floor has floory taste
The water is wet
Orange is Orange
@@itanimulli. FYI. Water is not wet. It is the thing by which other objects become wet.
If you were joking then that's fine. Don't r/whoosh me.
Edit: Water is indeed wet people.
people die when you kill them
_"It is unclear how potent the health effects of the bamboo salt..."_
So, we are bamboozled?
Hey supposedly it eliminates micro plastics
@@chickenjuice4841 but how's about the "hundreds of years"? so there's micro plastic hundreds of years ago?
@@jasonshepherd4771 I can’t tell if you’re trolling or just obtuse. It was created a long time ago but also supposedly eliminates micro plastics that are in our sea salt now.
No one replied to the joke so i will;
Ayy, not bad.
@@chickenjuice4841 there shouldn't be any plasic in clear sea water after filtering
the only benefit is a different taste, i guess
Every kind of essential oil would lose its ability, due to this level of high-temperature baking. That's literally a coal-infused salt...
No, you're completely wrong. You couldn't be more wrong.
It's 9 times coal-infused salt.
@@user-zb8tq5pr4xyou are still wrong. It's nine times coal infused salt with a supplement of metal chippings.
There's people sitting on the floor breaking up chunks of salt with tiny cleavers strictly for the cameras, meanwhile in the back room there's 2 guys dumping tons of it in mechanical grinders to get the product to market and maximize production.
This "traditional" process was developed in the 20th century, likely after WW2. No way they weren't using mechanical crushers from day one.
Makes sense to use stainless steel grinders as those cleavers r stainless steel. Js
On the other hand, if they are doing it with those knives quickly wearing away at the blade, we can explain where the iron content in the bamboo salt comes from.
Very True 😊😊👍
If you use machinery to maximize production then you will have to lower the cost of bamboo salt
The first question I had at the beginning: "Are there any scientific studies on this?" Business insider: "Yes, it is not that different than the ordinary salt." Pretty much sums it up.
Same!
c'mon bro...you wanna make money in this world? Sell the sizzle not the steak !
Lack of microplastics is a pretty big deal. But I am not a scientific expert. Maybe they think that microplastics are not harmful to health.
Idk cultural knowledge over millennia or business insider. Who is more knowledgeable
they are just wasting resources and dumping more c02 to the atmosphere
Since the bamboo salt seems to be pure NaCl plus some trace minerals, you can just get yourself cheap pure salt and eat some bamboo shoots with your salted meal.
Lmfao... Same thought 😂
Bamboo Salt: Yeah, but still...
@@hmpz36911 😂
My thought exactly
how would you remove de fluoride and iodine
Tried the bamboo salt and while I say shenanigans on health benefits, taste wise I could taste the bamboo salt way more clearly than regular sea salt with less bamboo salt even. It does have a hint of a grassy taste too like a burger with just a tiny bit of lettuce.
Not worth the price by any means but very tasty and visually appealing (looked pretty cool on fries lol )
Sure hope other people don’t think that sale with grass + lettuce taste is worth 10x the price
@@fatmilf1498 haha agrees I’ll take $0.99 table salt over this stuff unless someone else is buying lol
who knew burnt bamboo is bitter. Lol. Just add some cheap charcoal to food and it's basically the same
Anything burned can cause cancer.
Thanks for sharing!
I love how burning the salt "filters out" the "bad things inside", yet the "good ingredients" from the bamboo are "concentrated into the salt. I call shenanigans.
This seems rampant in the salt industry. Pink salt for years was touted as being "more pure" than table salt, despite the fact that what makes pink salt notable is its particular impurities. Truly pure salt is, yah know... white.
Did a Korean ask you for money to buy salt?
I cringed so hard.
@@kernalbert4939 aw yes it the it did not affect you so why does it matter argument
@@charlesdortch4213 Yup. Sometimes, you should mind your business and keep it moving, especially about things that five minutes ago you knew nothing about and when all your information is from one short video source.
“The majority of bamboo salt is made out of sodium chloride.”
Ah yes, the floor is made of floor.
Salt has the potential to be made of other metals such as potassium or other halogens such as iodine.
@@galaxywolf3192 yes but then it isn’t table salt, potassium chloride and cerium chloride are chlorine salts just like table salt. Explosions and fire made a video where he taste tested all the non toxic ones and it really is obvious that they taste much different.
@Max Power lol no thanks
@@galaxywolf3192 it can be made into aleve as well
@Max Power naaa ill eat it raw or snort it :v
4:32 “The salt has salty flavor”
Ahh yes, the floor here is made out of floor
Yes the swiss is made out of swiss
Every 60 seconds a minute passes in Africa ✍️
@@rgmfilms5325 that's why I always come to read the comments, to see things like this lol
No way bro, first time I tried salt I thought it was candy
jesus christ you redditors
The amount of intelligence and thought process put into developing such 'products' knowing there is no scarcity of stupid buyers in this world is actually genius. Take it with a pinch of salt.
A pinch of bamboo salt you mean
No it isn't. It's stupid and nothing but a waste.
@@Cricketmane It is pretty smart, although pretty scummy at the same time
@@bigmannn2443 what a waste of firewood to turn normal salt into black salt though.
@@riverajustinmarks. The people making it sure don't see it as a waste if just that one company walked away with $24 million in sales in just a year.
Imagine how much 9 times roasted purple bamboo Himalayan salt would cost
then use it to cook wagyu then give it a gold coating
and a diamond plate
@@fikrifahrizal482 made by gordon ramsay
@@shiningeditedmoon Then just drench it all in ketchup..
@@solmoman AAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I'm gonna try freezing sugar 9 times for better tasting coffee.
Why stop at 9?
Brew your coffee 9 times, let us know how it goes!
Ay yo, let's go into business
No fry the sugar then the coffee
Best coffee is with no sugar!
That 9th roasting really drives away the negative energy and seals in the positive vibrations.
@Eki Seork at the 11th time it's practically rocket fuel
@@jk_ilyu lol
😂
oh hey fellow Bengalis, only a matter of time before yt gets filled with dada boudi hotty naughty dushti mishti shit
this sounded like something a cult leader would say to sell his bathwater for unsuspecting believer or something
Cave Salt is a salt that's ten times the price of bamboo salt. Most of the cost comes from the labor intensive process of extracting Cave Salt. It can only be found in the deepest parts of a very dangerous underground cave system, where only a few expert cave divers can access. This cave system has a lot of mineral deposits, which gives Cave Salt its very famous aquamarine coloring. It's not sour, bitter, nor sweet. Shockingly, its taste is actually very salty. It also provides various health benefits.
"bamboo oil is absorbed by salt, not burned, no no, not burned"
"only bad things are burned, all good things are absorbed by the salt"
"we definitely can't use a simple press machine to grind salt"
sounds like healing crystals to me
Yeah it's defenitly a bunch of bs
Sounds like bullshit to me!
same thing i was thinking, breaking it by hand is so pointless, burning the bamboo is pointless too. just burn it then mix it with bamboo oil and boom bamboo salt
I agree with you
Yep. Bamboo extract get absorbed into the salt then you heat it to 1000°C, the tempreture where almost if not all organic compound brakedown. Where's the logic in it? On the mineral argument, you can just analyze the bamboo ash for trace of minerals then buy those mineral salt in bulk, dissolve with seasalt then recrystalize. A much more efficient process
“They’re now going to gently separate the salt by hand”
HAMMER TIME
with a meat cleaver
on a brick
@Chevalier they said densely pack, not separate 😁 how can you densely separate something?
Lol, immediatly i see that ridiculous dance in my mind, hahaha thanks, it was long ago reminding this!
You talk about the Hammer
When you're talkin 'bout a show
That's hyped and tight
Singers are sweatin'
So pass them a wipe or a tape
To learn
What it's gonna take in the 90's to burn
The chart's legit
Either work hard or you might as well quit
That's word, because, you know
You can't touch this
You can't touch this
Break it down!
Stop, Hammer time!
5:27 “The majority of bamboo salt is made out of sodium chloride”
Ah yes, the majority of this bamboo salt is salt.
It kinda was relevant in that specific context tho, in relation to the other components
Bet jimmy neutron wrote the script
The floor here is made of floor
Soo, it is healthier than regular salt?
So my cereal is made of cereal
Snake oil is said to have huge benefits for the health, too.
What's funny is you know at some point in history, some guy came up with this scam idea realizing that if they did some supposedly fancy stuff to salt, and claimed it had curative properties, that he could sell it for more and that's the only reason this stuff exists.
Say what you will...I'm sticking by the benefits of pickled gecko testicles.
@@dath283 the 9 times roasted testicles are more powerful
Did you know if you add piss to the bamboo salt after it's been burned 8 times and then distill it. Then leave it to dry will make it even saltier and it's even more tasty and healthier.
They didn't tell you about tao salt. The lightest upper cream of the bamboo salt that solidifies on top of the melted salt on the last 9th roasting. That salt is reserved for very special uses. There are monks in the korean mountains who are over 500 years old because of Tao salt, among other practices.
@@lorentsmuller4207 ah yes, those 500 years old Korean monks no one has any proof about.
"The bamboo salt has no bitter flavor"
So like every other kind of salt then?
You're roasting it with organic material (bamboo) at 1000 degrees, with all that burnt matter you would expect there to be some kind of bitterness but apparently not
@@シランドラ ashes doesnt taste anything
@@magusperde365 yeah that's true, but still when burning anything you worry about bitter flavours
These bamboo salt has been using as a Korean traditional medicine for century in Korea
and it was written in the book, "Gujoonggupo salt" is so precious from past ancient time,
once you taste this rare salt you will never eat regular salt.
bitter flavours appears when a sugar food is over cooked and wood isn't sugary ...
so stating that it doen't taste bitter is irrelevant
Step 1. Get a big ol' pizza oven
Step 2. Get Bamboo
Step 3. Get Sea Salt
Step 4. Stuff Sea Salt into Bamboo
Step 5. Make black/purple salt
Step 6. Sell overpriced burnt salt
69 likes nice
Doesn't work, people just call me a stupid dumbass selling dirt on the side of the road. Apparently you also have to have traditionalist/eco/organic-nuts-oriented marketing campaign.
I like my salt like I like my pizza burnt and salty
@@iNezerroth Just say that your dirt is organic and non-gmo.
There is more to this ...24 million made in a year and it's in demand isn't something I'd be calling overpriced....obviously someone is doing something right if they have been doing this 24 years with no signs of demand going down....sounds like jealously in these comments
Don’t you love how they try to make this sound better or superior by just saying it’s salt.
Bamboo salt has a salty flavour.
Bamboo salt isn’t bitter
Bamboo salt is majority sodium chloride
Respect to the person who thought of putting salt in bamboo, then roasting it till it burns away, that too 8 times
@@some.generic.username5254 ha ..... Anyway ig it's 9 times (I will delete this after your reply)
@@aadityamore5645 he replied? I don't see it deleted
@@some.generic.username5254 Already confused
@@cookedpotato 😆😆 someone really got confused .. yes he will delete it when he sees my message
@@aadityamore5645 but how will you know he has deleted his message for you to delete the message you posted
when i heard of bamboo salt at first i thought there is a special kind of bamboo that produce salt inside bamboo tree..turn out you just putting sea salt inside bamboo
U r Bamboozled right? 😂
@@businessinsider7657 Stop trying to impersonate Business Insider.
I reported them.
Exactly, I was thinking it was extracted from the bamboo itself, but nooo. It's salt shoved into a tube, burned and melted repeatedly.. i'm so disappointed😄
Same😂
Im trying to imagine what was on the person's mind who thought "I'm gonna put salt in bamboo, and burn it... 9 times". Like, what are you on mate?
My thoughts exactly, I was about to make this comment. Spot on mate.
I guess first time it was accident. Someone had a salt stored in bamboo and his house burned down. Then he tried the burned salt and was like: you know what, that's not bad at all... Let's burn it few more times and make more of it!
@@toncek9981 That just opens up another can of worms I never imagined. Why did his house burn down? Why is he tasting random burnt shit? This guy is just getting weirder by the minute lol
@@sushiNramen Let this poor guy alone, he just lost his home, of course he's trying to save all he can, even the burnt salt... As for the house burning down, who knows. Chinese dragon? Japanese invasion? It's Korea after all... OR he was just roasting his rice for 8th time because, you know, it's good and protects against cancer and shit...
@@sushiNramen cause your not Asian enough to understand noypi...
After watching many of these videos from the series, it's obvious that Business Insider isn't tackling the psychological roots of what drive the prices of these commodities. It's totally understandable if they are more interested in making money than to shape a better belief system of economy.
This reminds me of the old saying. "Activity does not equal accomplishment." The final product is mainly Sodium Chloride.
Well said.
Sounds like it tastes good but... that's about it.
Well some ppl are buing it lol
@@renurukensetsu4184 let them buy it has no difference than regular salt. I'd rather use iodized
Tastes like salt with ash
This is the salt version of doing work by banging your head against a wall.
Did the wall change or move: no
Did you use a lot of energy: yes
Was it worth it: yes but no
get someone to do a lifestyle piece on it tho and you could dupe your way to a millionare paycheck
😅
It actually gives food more flavor than regular salt.
@@kospencer1 I doubt its better than using other spices too, especially when you consider price. Seems to just be relevant from tradition
@@cwill2127 I mean it’s none of my concern that you’re missing out on great flavors.
I'd love to see the scientific mineral comparison of this stuff and Redmonds Real Salt.
I'd be willing to bet that this salt is total BS.
I bet this salt contains a ton of carcinogens from the burned bamboo.
Black and bamboo salt is high in sulfur.
@@gladitsnotme how much salfur in this Salt
in number please
It has a PH of 10 so highly alkaline and it burns! GG
Asia is not only beautiful but dang they have some good craftspeople and hopefully they have a nice day
"Why bamboo salt is so expensive"?
Because there are people who are willing to pay for it.
Because of the DUMB people who are willing to pay for it
But that's the same situation as buy a Ferrari
@@konglee7284 not even close. ferrari are over priced but at least it has the performance to back it up. this salt does not have any medical or scientific benefits over traditional salt. its just stupid people buying stupid things.
And, believe the snake oil BS.
if only there is factual scientific benefit nutrient in there, if not, its indeed dumb
This has eliminated my illusion that anything that is expensive is rare & healthy!
I'm assuming your very young then. Prices don't reflect anything other than how much something can be sold for and people will buy it.
@@jamesbenz3228 yeah, but the message "price = quality" has been propagated for so long that people kinda stopped questioning it.
In addition, with the wide spread of media, some people started caring for status more than for integrity or even their wallets. But if people realize what's actually happening, it would just mean that those, who "invested" into it, come out at a loss of at best their face, at worst, a big deal of money. So they spread the message and popularise their mistakes as a good and proper way of life.
It's kinda like a pyramid scheme, or a crypto-whatever. An artificially inflated bubble of demand of meaningless stuff. And all in pursuit of money or unreal image of happiness.
This procedure sounds like my shampoo and lotion mixing experiments when I was 8
😂😂
what was the results? You know, for science.
L
Love
@@CelestialLites I tried it and it tastes goo-
bamboo salt is expensive because bamboo is bamboo. its salty because they put salt in the bamboo. its so rare. Makes like totes the mostest of huges differences
"First of all, being a salt, bamboo salt has a salty flavor"
Ah, yes, this salt is made of salt.
Underrated
@SadFishySad To be honest, i didn't even read the comments on this one.
300th like :D
@SadFishySad He not copy anyone idea. That is everyone idea. Everyone is communist
every 60 seconds in africa a minute passes
4:33 "first of all, being a salt, bamboo salt has salty flavor"
**Ah yes the floor here is made out of floor** vibes
This made me snort lmfao
Maybe in original Korean it's different words so it's more descriptive
Ackghtually, floor is a concept, you can make a floor, but it becomes a wall if you build it vertically.
@@BeastOrGod smart
this is a stolen comment-
if they said they do this for tradition, I would be fine, but selling it by claiming healing properties...
so much scam here
It's a scam.
Seems like they're just adding carcinogens might be cancerous
@@polarboy2003 exactly, I was thinking the same ,that thing is roasted 9 times at high temperature and they are claiming it cures Cancer lol.
Sort of like pink himalayan salts being sold as healing lamps
samurai killed each other for this salt and invaded china it's not a scam your most likely American and believe pharmaceuticals are medicine and not narcotics that mask symptoms
So I'm going on shark tank ....10 times roasted bamboo salt ....makes you see the future !
Of the episodes in this series, this is the first one where I actually think the process of making the final product is wasteful. Bamboo and pine trees burned 9 times? Just to infuse salt with minerals that can be found in other foods naturally?
Even if burning the bamboo into the salt is important instead of directly enriching it with the "good stuff" from bamboo, you could probably do some math to find out how to make it in one pass and save on the fuel.
Or just cook your food in bamboo. I wonder what they do with the environment, burning lots of firewood.
This is called capitalism
It's called I like the way it makes my food taste.
@@nurimahrasidz271 Bullshit product
As a new employee of the Bamboo Salt company, I think it would take me approximately 90 seconds to ask the question 'why the f*ck are we breaking up salt by hand with tiny cleavers?' ... 'shut up, that's why'
Crush it and filter it based on size. Way faster for the same result.
Exactly! There are so many machines and metal buckets that could be used
I guess they want the salt to still have large-ish crystals, using a machine might produce too much fine powder.
But I’m sure the real reason is just to be able to slap a “100% made by hand” label on it and jack up the price a bit more.
@@angelaphsiao this is not something modern manufacturing has been unable to overcome. They're already making a lot of fine powder the way they're doing it, just very slowly. There are various ways to crush or break something so you get the mostly the right crystal size. Then you just use a series of filters to separate whatever isn't the right size. The way they're doing it is painfully slow and I can't imagine why a cleaver is the preferred tool, even if they're going to do it by hand.
@@angelaphsiao Actually, industrial grinders could make it much much more consistent, whatever size (chunks or powder) or structure (same size or different size) is desired, it's much better done by machines than by hand, it's all just depends on grinder's properties and a bit of automated sieving.
This thing - it's just waste of money and time, as you can do pretty much same salt by mixing regular salt and ash, or better - with different kinds of salts, like a bit of potassium chlorine, tiny bit of iron oxide and calcium carbonate. Done. That'd be same salt, but without possibly undesired additives and compounds and way, way cheaper.
This process:
1. Adds minerals from bamboo to the salt - OK
2. Removes impurities - LOL no
If bamboo has such amazing minerals, and by not just grind the bamboo and add it to pure raw salt..
Anything burned can cause cancer. LOL
Let me just say this I've tried at least seven different kinds of salt from various sources around the world it's all just salt, I once spent $28 to try the pink Himalayan salt and it was just coarse cut pink salt. and this was back when this stuff was supposed to be the grandiosk level highest level of salt, and I still preferred my 59-cent pound of salt
Hmmm. Microplastics might get burned off during the process, but it looks like brick dust is added to the salt at the end.
That’s probably bamboo ash mixed in (basically coal, since It’s carbon based)
Also the cleavers probably are being grinded down by the salt, so there should be some steel dust in there too
3:20 Okay, I believe him that the process removes micro plastic since you literally create molten salt…. But to say that bamboo oil and fragrance remains inside the salt after being melt into lava is a bit of a stretch…
Plus generally, charring things does NOT add healthfulness
😆😆😆brick dust, you reaching
"Ignorance is a big business." Unnecessary product, yet liked by a lot of stupid people.
That's why there are lines outside Louis Vitton stores. Cheap leather with a fake embossed grain and plastic coating with LV on it...and idiots pay handsomely for it.
The more stupid the costumer is the more money the seller makes lol
And so is art, art is unnecessary and studies have shown humankind will continue to survive without the existence of the 'mona lisa' , but I will be one of the few that would prefer the 'mona lisa' exists rather than not, and I feel the same way for this ' bamboo salt'
Bamboo salt is almost like the philosophers stone. You would have to study alchemy for years to comprehend the power bamboo salt has on living for hundreds of years. There are koreans that live in the mountains that are 400 500 and over 600 years old, and bamboo salt is one of the things they consume for thier extremely long and healthy lives.
Agreed it's just a waste imagine how much forest they cut down to keep the furness burning continuesly for 12 hours not to mention one batch requires this process to repeat multiple times 🤦🏻♂️ when all the forest are gone and the wildlife with it these fools will eat this stupid salt
Others tasting bamboo salt: hmm much more miner-ally,bamboo ehh...much different from regular salt
Me tasting it: taste like salt
If you've actually tasted it it tastes like eggs and its more like powder its weird
Exactly!!
@@garliconionshallot what really? If I bought that bamboo salt I would only use that on eggs cause that the only one of things I can cook
Because its a scam.
@@garliconionshallot So called powder is probably bamboo ash.
This industry puts the bamboo in bamboozled
2:25 "It's fired in a special kiln, and operated by an expert"
Yep, when someone's dual-wielding flamethrowers, you can tell he's an expert
He's got points in both dual-wielding and big guns, he must be at least 15 lvl
Jealous ? 24 years..this person obviously is making a good living off this considering it brings in over 20 million a year...
@@Nic1Moreno that's the company making that much not him.. he's probably earning a few hundred every week or month.
@@Meow_Deity doubtful considering the guy has been doing this for over 25 years ...but it's possable we all worked a job "slave labor" at one point Gary Coleman from the TV show Differant Strokes is a good example of slave labor
I'd guess you'd need to be at least level 50 to dual-wield flamethrowers, so yeah, he's an expert
Some ancient Korean PR genius really made the best from what they had on hand...
They most likely were trying to get crap out of their salt and it took of into this...
Wait wait wait. So the “bad” stuff gets cooked out of it and the “good” stuff gets cooked in? I need a bit more on how that works. 😅
Just go behind the rainbow, the answer is given
Hint: it’s pseudoscience. They’re still making bank off of it tho so I have to give them their props.
@Kadir Garip I don't think they really want to mess with anyone's income. They just care about the health related things and only report about those things.
@Kadir Garip I didn't see or listen to a single scientist in the video.
It's all pseudoscience, but if it makes people happy..
It's less harmful than many other practices, so I'm ok with it.
@Kadir Garip as long as it aint poisoning somebody (thus the toxicity comment) they dont really care about the mythical effects the sellers announce.
Burning for days takes considerable carbon emission. That is the reason bamboo salt is expensive.
It have a strong feeling that kinda psudo-sience. The engineer said that the bamboo oil is being absorbed into salt itself. But then, at that kiln temperature, any nature organic material would evaporate or burn to the ash.
Might be it's richer flavor due to that process
1. I highly doubt oil can be "absorbed" into pure NaCl salt. 2. A 1000 C melt would ocmpletely anhilate any organic molecules such as "baboo oils". What you're getting is some NaCl with a lot of soot and coal dust on it. Also, this entire process could be easily automated. They just don't for the sake of keeping the prices higher, thereby proving that the only value in this product is the intense manual labor that goes into it.
@@dennispremoli7950 I highly doubt everything can be automated. Half of their process are using machine but compacting salt into bamboo still required by hands as not all of them has the same size. Plus they say the still keep the traditional way of using pine wood.
@@dennispremoli7950 if they want to automate the process, they need to calculate whether they can sell the products. I bet changing the process to automatic will increase productivity to at least 2 times. Not sure if there's enough market for this specialty product. When people from the old generation that consume this due to tradition or supposedly health benefits are gone, I don't think the business will grow. I think the younger generation is more informed and would not take the myth as face value.
@@dennispremoli7950 agree. The whole process can be described as a melting NaCl salt with contamination which come from bamboo ash, which mostly the minerals ash like potash (K2CO3), so the automatically process is not that hard.
The strong key is they believed on that claim, and that make the prices up like that.
@@MrChrist741 you dont need to compact it like that just mix the bambo to salt in a counteiner and burn it, grind it and redo 8 times
"The goal is to infuse the salt with minerals from the bamboo and to remove any impurities."
If that's really the goal, it's self-contradictory. By adding minerals other than NaCl to NaCl, you're adding impurities.
I think you interpreted their words face value instead of what they really meant. Obviously this is coming from a county that doesn't speak English.
@@reactking7093 Well, the problem is that “pure” actually doesn’t mean anything else than what it means in chemistry. In nutritional marketing, it has no special meaning whatsoever. It’s a “fluff word” that is only used to conjure consumer confidence and to create an aura of “goodness” out of thin air. It’s not an English as a second language problem, it’s a science literacy and consumer awareness problem.
@@reactking7093 “pure” can also be used in the sense of “having pure intentions”. However, that is clearly not the intended usage here.
@@epgui i will rather have regular salt
White salt we eat which we get from supermarket is processed , chemical used to color it. People will happily eat that salt and will try to target traditional product which have proven good results.
People won't questions pizza ,burger and coke like shit which western countries gave but they will come to question other traditional product and process.
I often burn cooked dinner to remove impurities leaving only essential oils, at least that’s what I tell my wife when she complains
"proponents of Bamboo salt say it can help with digestion, oral health, skin care, inflammation & even has 'anti-cancer' effects"
Yeah and it can make you fly, be super strong, get a raise at work, have a happy relationship and it can even be used to flavor food!
No, I'm sorry but you can't trick me that easily. There's no way you can flavour food with fancy salt! Now, curing cancer and pimples on the other hand...
The amount of excess mineral you get compared to other salts is miniscule, and burning 9 rounds of wood for a pinch of salt sounds stupid to me...
Exactly I think the same..
It is stupid and not environmentally friendly. I wouldn’t pay for that salt
i think there is a journal about this. how about u read it then u will how valuable this things worth (sorry for bad english)
@@jovannoc.h.s8018 Whats the journal? What do they claim?
Pollution
I mean, it looks like something that could easily be automated
That way it will not be expensive anymore 😂😂😂
Priceless treasures cant be automated 😂😂😂
@@96dragonhunter the salt would be more consistant in quality if the process were automated. The packing of the salt in the bamboo would have the same pressure, and people wouldn't have to sit on bricks all day, risking chopping off their fingers cause a heavy duty grinder could break it up much faster.
@@audreydoyle5268 did you see me put those 😂😂😂 in there?
My question is: if we take bamboo Salt baked 9 times and bake it 9 more times, does it make it 18 or 81times baked Salt?
The kind of salt that is only good for when you want to brag that you bought something more expensive than other people.
But then they are being * s a l t y * :D
With all the salt already in the world this looks insane to me...a lot of pine forests and bamboo groves gone. It's not like someone invented the Salk vaccine....
@@sitarnut bamboo grows super fast anyways, 3 feet in 24 hours. It wouldn’t be hard to regrow a bamboo forest
@@riceeater3244 more like you are being salty because for some reason they chuckle and say "sure"
@@riceeater3244 You made me smile :D
In India we call it blank salt...we make make it since century.
Easily available at standard market price...not super expensive
And then there's me. Who had no idea of bamboo salt's existence.
Edit: Thank you everyone for all the likes and comments. It's only been a month and this comment has blown up. I'm shocked.
Edit: Again, thank you everyone for the likes and replies. 1/4th of the video likes!? I can't😭.
Same!
Hahahaha i hear you. This is all new to me.
@Kaytie Xia ... theoretically, could you make a cake in a bamboo?
@@mk-ki4ls yes, im asian and bamboo rice cake is good and makes good breakfast when eaten with some meat
@@markysnar72 nice! Thanks for the tidbit
In a nutshell: this salt is so expensive bcs we need to pay workers for unnecessary efforts for useless change in usual salt
dirtier salt. Exactly.
And sometime, it could contaminated with some unhealthy minerals like selenium
Maybe it has an important medical use?
@@AryanBhat-dz9wd it's almost no different than regular salt
In a nutshell, you will never buy this salt. It’s Korean people that buy this because it has cultural significance to them.
3:14 *explains 'science' to middle-aged women* " if you bake the salt in a bamboo barrel, the bad things inside will be filtered out during this process "
I'm pretty sure regular pure salt is way less toxic than that burnt and 'treated/filtered' stuff which 'adds minerals' to the salt
this is the type of thing i'd expect some ancient myth or legend to come from.
"MmM you wish to be a famed cook? wehehehe then my dear boy, put salt of the sea into the trunk of a bamboo tree. Place it into a fire overnight, and you shall have the greatest cooking spice in the world!"
💀💀
I remember a Korean oversea student's story who brought a bit os bamboo salt with him. A few people reported him to the police for suspected possession of drugs - and the student actually had to convince the officers to taste it to prove his innocence.
Must be in america
@@seminky5341 For sure 😂 Where else can it be 🤣
Once I brought home sand from a beach and they had to search my bags and test it😂😅
@@seminky5341 Yep. As you can see, the color of bamboo salt is kinda dark.... And you know where this is going.
It was a karen who reported him, wasn't it?
Those "beneficial minerals" are from beating the rock salt with a knife on a brick
HAHAHAH AND THE SOON TO BE RUSTY METAL FROM THE CLEAVER
The great thing about this is that you can imagine SO WELL how this was discovered: store salt in bamboo (practical) -> someone accidentally uses log to feed the fire -> woah what happened to the salt
And then comes the swindler: I can make good money outta this!
AND then comes the madlad swindler: hey, what if we repeat this several more times and sell it at even higher prices?
It's just burnt salt, anyone can make it at home.
@@mid5503 just burnt salt isn't bambooey enough
you have a 1000 degree celsius kiln in your house?
Koreans
seems like this would be carcinogenic, it's essentially burnt
Er... the 'infused minerals' are impurities, so that kinda makes 'removing impurities' pointless...
I think by impurities, they're referring to the kind that aren't good for your body, as some minerals and plastics can build up in your system. The iron, potassium and the other mineral (forgot what it was), are good for your immune and circulatory systems. It's basically salt fortified with essential minerals, like how milk is fortified with vitamin D.
@@audreydoyle5268 Ehhh I don't think the fire magically makes unhealthy stuff disappear and only infuses good stuff into the salt. With the black color I'm almost willing to bet it's full of carcinogens...
@@anthrazite i think it’s soot and ash
@@shrekthebest9399 not everything carbonizes(i.e mercury)
@@audreydoyle5268 great now let me know about mercury, not all "minerals" are good. Normal rock salt or Himalayan salt doesn't contain these issue and potassium carbonate exist in normal salt.
I like how they film the whole process, and in the end claims "It's a waste of time".
they needed proof.
I'm pretty sure my Cobra Snake Oil will feature in this channel soon
Or my Luxury Placebos
Only if you sell it for top dollar
Try burn the cobra 8 times
or Russian Democracy :))
@@bca-biciclindcuaxel7527 Try roasting it 8 times ;)
When it comes to another country's traditional medicine, as long as it isn't actively harming people, it's not my business
At this point I think it's fair to say basically every culture has something which is viewed to be super healthy in it that ultimately has a net neutral value and that's fine. If this is what people want to spend their money on it's not my business, I'm just glad it's not being harmful to people and the people who are making it seem to be paid decently.
This is the same crap that ends up with shark fins and elephant tusks! It looks very nice but at the end of the day it's BS
But the problem is that it *is* harmful. If there is nothing good or bad about this bamboo salt, then at a minimum you wasted a crap load of fuel. And I am not even talking about the people who buy into its "healing properties" *instead* of proper medicine.
facts
Burning things 9 times over in a kiln at high temperature for no benefit outside of ego and superstition is needlessly wasteful and contributing to climate change. I'd say that's actively harming people.
@@thewittyusername lol climate change
It's amazing the things humans will do to make themselves healthier when a daily run has x200 the health benefits of this.
Humans tend to go towards the easier things. Which is easier? Running or just paying up for things that are apparently better?
Just remember to be kind to your knees and run on a track or a dirt trail
Or just walking if you have the time, it's much better for your joints and mind
Why not do both? Double the healty the better right?
running aint that good
if machines packes salt: 1$ per kg
if worker packes salt: $100 per kg
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best explanation for why its expensive 💰💰💰
Not exactly - the steps in the process would also make it a *ton* more expensive.
Machines packing salt don't cook it 9 times and have to chip away at the result after each cooking to make it re-packed.
you missed something. if they hire over seas workers they business can claim that they have to pay a certain hefty amount for local labor but hide the fact that they are hiring over seas workers which can be paid less. not only does this not help the local economy but price could be fraudulantly higher than need be.
Yep, labor cost money apparently. Crazy world....
hand made. traditionally processed. genuine
@@mattgopack7395 A machinr could probably do that way, WAAAAY more efficiently. it's just a stupid commodity
Just char the bamboo, grind it, and mix it with the salt. It would be easier, cheaper, more environmentally friendly, and most importantly, it would actually mean bamboo is in the salt. There is no way minerals from the bamboo are getting "absorbed" into the salt. The bamboo is burnt away and discarded, leaving a slight bit of ash stuck on the outside of the salt column, which is the only bamboo substance in that salt. It is so minimal that its pretty much just regular salt, only cooked 9 times.
@@oldmoviesupremacy2421 which makes no sense at all
@@oldmoviesupremacy2421 soooooo exactly as the op said?
@@oldmoviesupremacy2421 you mean the same oil that gets burned down to ash due to the process of ... burning and melting the salt.
@@oldmoviesupremacy2421 any and all oils would evaporate and burn off during the process
@@oldmoviesupremacy2421 you are wrong.
they use pine wood? Maybe there's a mistranslation or something but consuming things cooked with Pine is usually poisonous.
"Bamboo salt is not proven to be beneficial to health. Reports show that there is no big difference between normal salt and Bamboo salt"
Salt: Daniel
Bamboo salt: Cooler Daniel 🕶️
Blacker daniel
Roasted daniel
fancy daniel
Miller Lite is the best selling beer...it's sure as fuk ain't the best beer...KISS the band sucks, was pure marketing
@@giedrius2149 bruh ur name is lit
"But there hasn't been enough scientific study to fully back up all of these claims"
*Ahh yes* just say it's healthy and people will buy it.
dont get bamboozled😂
@@badasswood That joke was so good I'm salty!
Bamboo salt encourage people to eat more salt.
Just like the pharmaceutical industry
Does with marketing bs and don't tell you the damage they do.
lol anything that is brown in color has to be good! look brown eggs brown rice and brown sugar 😂😂😂😂😂😂
“why is bamboo salt so expensive?” definitely a question i find myself asking on a daily basis sooo glad someone could elaborate
If you don't care, just watch another video. If you say this is supposed to be a joke, please rephrase it. Stop complaining.
Who ever invented this is a genius. It takes so little work... buy regular salt, buy bamboo, burn, melt and done...
It would take little work.
But it feels like they go out of their way to not make the process efficient.
I mean, for the love of god, who still hires people to chop wood, crush salt and pack salt?
Get an electric furnace and a crusher and produce it at half the cost.
Just wait till I release my new even more expensive; 10 times forged "Bamboozled Bamboo Salt!"
🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣 Such a scam.
Wait for my groundbreaking bamboo roasting method. "Bamboo salt roasted on hot liquid gold and finished with grated diamond"
Hey, I have too much money. Perhaps I should start using this. I bet it would spice up my rhinoceros horn omelets.
😂😂😂
After your omelettes make sure you keep them pearlys white with some tiger bone toothpaste!!
@@kevinotoole885 LOL
I guess it tastes and smells like burned nails
I’ll be making Coconut Black Pepper to partner this Bamboo Salt. It’s a step up for your everyday seasoning even Gordon R can’t resist it
Gordon Ramsay is a hack.. Fake ass reality show star.
@@jamesdagmond He is still an excellent chef
"Fire and heat helps to remove any micro plastics and helps to add bamboo oils to the salt." They must be using some proprietary smart-fire tech than separates the different oil varieties.
Just mix the pepper with cocaine... At least it will feel better.
@@belofostio8494 the cocaine wont work if you est it, it must go into the blood stream, I reckon weed will give it a nice flavour tho
Because some people are crazy enough to pay so much for it.
Korean here. From experience bamboo salt tastes like boiled eggs.( not that bad strongly recommend) It's mostly popular to old people. I don't know about the micro plastic and mineral part dough (not sure about the nutritious value if your going to try some just enjoy it for the taste. )
"bamboo salt tastes like boiled eggs." that's likely just the sulphur coming from the bamboo soot.
Not good at chemistry but that unique flavor is enough to convince the old people that the salt has health benefits😀 I think it's just flavored salt
I wish the channel put more effort in there research. There's no evidence that bamboo salt has those nutritionist values
Ahh, India has a 'black salt' or 'kaala namak' that smells slightly eggy. But it's not cooked with, just sprinkled on raw foods (AFAIK)
You can get the same flavor from Kala Namak aka black salt. Its more widely available and cheaper. But ultimately, unless you want an eggy taste it really doesn't matter which salt you use. No salt is healthier than other salt. If you are on a low sodium diet (only need it if a doc says so) then the healthiest salt isnt even salt! Its MSG! Which is perfectly safe, as safe as eating this coal infused salt. The "extra minerals" in pink Himalayan salt and others like bamboo salt are so minute. Better off taking a multi-mineral supplement here and there. Most people dont even need a supplement daily. Once or twice a week would get you a good result. Otherwise youre just excreting the extra vitamins/minerals out. The main thing that changes the taste or experience of salt is the texture. Like standard iodized salt vs kosher. I can't believe so many people still fall victim to believing in stuff like this.
My eyes have rolled so far to the back of my head I don't think they're coming back
😂
@Seán White tell you what’s good for that........Korean Bamboo salt 🤣
It's ok just put some bamboo salt on them.
Smells Like P L A C E B O
This salt is the most blatant scam ever to anyone with a basic understanding of chemistry or biology. The amount of this salt you would need to consume to benefit from the minerals would counteract any benefit because you'd be consuming stupid amounts of salt. Far more sensible to just standard table or kosher salt and get the minerals and vitamins from other dietary sources.
I like how they describe their product as something that's supposed to be extra healthy lol.
As does everything-
They fly a monk in to spirituality bless every batch, in a private jet, to add to its healing qualities
@@ericme4767 I would probably pay up to 1-2k per kg just because of the blessing and its marvelous emotional healing proporties it will most certainly imbue to the salt in a quantum entangelment magic, too hard to explain to consumers, but that will prove better to your soul than 10,000 golden retriver puppies.
*Now we just need them to start with himalayan salt and we'll have the cure to cancer*
So it being that salt melts around 800°C, for that last 1000°C cook, what would run off would be salt and unmelted materials such as iron (1538°C) mixed with carbon (3550°C). Oils made for human consumption usually never reach temperatures much higher than 250°C before evaporation and or burning so aside from the previously mentioned minerals/metals and some other with high fusion points contained in bamboo, there really shouldn't be much in there...
I like the tradition and the artisanal aspect but with all due respect, this is charred salt sold at a premium.
Not much left aside from cancer powder.
My guys burned salt one day and was like....woah I got an idea.
Hat off to the first guy who was able to sell this thing:
Random dude: I overcooked the salt in bamboo, better cook it some more and increase the price by 10 times.
So true
Of course he was able to sell it, he was the village doctor who needed to invent a medicine.
Places with a lot of trust in traditional medicine must be a scammers paradise
@@JohnDBlue They are.
Even if it has more beneficial minerals in it, you can get those same minerals from other foods for WAY cheaper. Not sure why anyone would buy this other than as a status symbol.
*stupid symbol
5 years ago my colleague bought bamboo salt from Korea as a souvenir. She asked me to use it sparingly for medicinal or to add electrolytes in my body eg after a workout, drink water with the bamboo salt to rehydrate. I rarely cooked food, so I only used it for gargling my mouth as a mouth cleanser or if feeling ill, would drink a small cup of this saltwater. Gradually moisture attacked the bamboo salt and I had to throw it away. I had no idea I was been given such an expensive gift and am now feeling extremely guilty of it !
You know salt is salt
It's salt bro
It's not valuable just because they paid a lot for it. It's called getting ripped off. You could spend $2,000 on a $5 toaster. It's still a cheap toaster.
It's salt you should be happy you didn't fall for this crap
holy shit your comment was cringe lmao. see ya kiddo
How can Humans be so stupid to value dirty salt.... this species is beyond savable..
“Hey guys, you know what would make salt even better? If we put it in bamboo and set it on fire”
LOL..my thoughts as well. LMAO
Ikr
Yea we can just sell it for 1000% more and pay unskilled labor to save on machine maintenance. We don't even pay our workers health insurance!
Then repeated 9 times until it melted to black colour, that make our salt taste better salty
LOL… Not just once, but nine times!!!
What they tell you: “you must go to school and get high quality education”
Real world: “yo, we’ll pay you to stick salt in bamboo and burn it an oven 9 times”
They tell you that so you don't need to do what reality asks you to.
Get high quality education, so you wont be tricked into buying expensive salt
@@PauloVictor-md2wr You mean get an education so you too can come up with a scam like this. It's called marketing!
@@dangerbirb4981 I mean you are both right, no reason to buy it and no reason not to sell it I suppose
@@GraniteInTheFace Nah, the education just sells you on something similar or is itself a scam. So if you're lucky and can land or create a job that has absolutely no flavor of this, yes; if you're not, you're just stuck in a self aware hell. There's such a thing as overeducating, unfortunately.
I have tasted salt and I can confirm that it does indeed taste like salt.
Dear god
Anything burned can cause cancer. LOL
Idk where y’all buy these but they’re much cheaper in my country, obviously expensive than white salt but we don’t have pink salt and this salt is our pink salt.