Why Icelandic Sea Salt Is So Expensive | So Expensive
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2020
- Hand-harvested Icelandic sea salt could cost you more than 30 times the price of table salt. Housed in one of the most remote and coldest locations in the country, Saltverk salt factory produces 10 metric tons of salt each year. But there’s one other thing that’s unique about the way it’s processed: Everything is powered entirely by geothermal energy. Unlike processed rock salt, the sea minerals remain in the crystals - but these are only a tiny percentage of the final product. The final result is very minimally processed, flaky sea salt from clear Icelandic waters.
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Why Icelandic Sea Salt Is So Expensive | So Expensive
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It's hard cuz they need to differentiate between salt and snow
Snow melts
Lol they over there look at them both like, ahhhhhhhhh....this one
@@AVG33K13 Ok mister joke fister
Blakerz 3 Gaming Salt also melts
E joke fister lol
So when you are buy this salt, you're not really buying the salt, you're buying the process.
They don't have enough sunlight to make salt
So at the end of the day, it's still sea salt regardless?
@@ArcticSeraph of course
Salt taste like salt. The only reason people buy this is probably for super fancy restaurants to jack up their food price.
@Dennis Helgi what about walrus shit and polarbear scat
"This sea salt can cost 30 times as more expensive than table salt"
*looks at the price of table salt in my local Walmart* so $30
Good math 👍🏼
@@ejerl9107 what, are you a preschooler? That's simple math
@@pokochoco5931 you have a really good humor
In my country Sea Salts cost around $3 for 1 kg.
@@pokochoco5931 no shit
That’s so sad because I just saw basically the exact same video about salt being made in the same way in Mexico, but it was the opposite story instead of it being so expensive it was the story of how there was only 63 farmers left using a method over 2000 years old, but somehow an entire liter of their salt only sold for $.50 in The USA
Edit: the man also did everything without a single other worker, barefoot by himself in the hot sun. No machines or anything just one man by himself selling salt for dirt cheap, to keep his ancestors tradition alive
Just goes to show how marketing drives the cost of any piece of shit.
Well u know, its somethin labelled made by European Countries😅
The European colonization results nowadays given value to products made by the europe and devalues products and process made by the antique colonies, even if they are exactly the same thing. Its a way to maintain the "hierarchy".
Yes, i remember watching that video! I remember him saying he was 40, but he looked goddamn 20
yea i remember i just watched that too, to be fair these are different salts but that other salt should be worth so much more than he’s getting paid for it
“Salt is an important part of Icelandic cuisine” Where is it not 😂
Anybody know where I can buy some salt 😁
you must not be British
roninzorz666 i’m american lol
I was searching for this comment
if you think about it this way: iceland uses salt like the usa uses sugar
idk why but i am addicted to these kinds of videos
Not addicted, rather it is an interesting video
Yeah, almost everyone is just about the same regarding these kind of videos! 😜👍😆
Yes brother
interesting af
You're not alone here
They are trying so hard to make it sound expensive.
and exclusive
I don't see why its so expensive nothing special here
@@59Love1 ran on 100% geothermal energy is pretty special bud. they power everything by the heat inside the earth. thats not special to you?
@@bubbaflo12 So what ?
@@bubbaflo12 Not special enough to warrant 30x pricing. But hey more power to them if someone will pay that.
"This salt is all harvested by hand"
Then footage of machinery and how it powered by geothermal energy, also using pump to get the sea water.
It said almost all by hand
0:36
@@a.m.3412 I think 0:10 is what they’re referencing
Key word Harvest*
@@mysteriousopinionatedperso1508 ahh i see
Narrator: it'll cost you 30x more than regular table salt
Workers: carelessly drop salt all over the floor
Ikr the first thing I saw was salt spilling out
Lol I was like is there anything to catch that salt and bring it back into production.
Meanwhile I will continue to buy regular table salt that is literally like 89 cents and will last me for a year
Ight lemme gently put the salt on the groud in the most grandest way
I can imagine how many dollars they lose because just a worker splitting up the salt
GF: "Hey baby my parents aren't home, wanna come over?"
Me: "I'm processing salt woman!"
Ha.
😂
"Baby" i find it funny how girlfriends use babe and babey and baby and yes, i am a human
@@METHYLENEDlOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE ‘Baby’ and ‘Daddy’ always seemed to me like terrible nicknames for a significant other
@@Couchlover47 No, they are making salt woman, not just salt
Why's it expensive? .... because you've labeled it as expensive
Just like the property in my area
Yup. Also made a video to validate its expensiveness.
@Domagoj Rubil eat salt a lot and be salty
It only produces around 10 metric tonnes a year
It’s flakier apparently, and is a lot greener as they don’t leave carbon footprint...along with labor costs from being hand processed
Well I don't know. I just got recommended this video after watching the "The Japanese Technique for Harvesting Sea Salt by Hand" video. It looks 100x more "by hand" in Japan. All I see in this video are machines in every stage of the process.
Hawaii is 100% by hand no machinery at all. It is done how our ancestors did it. Not even boiling down. It's all from the sun. We call it pa'akai and it cannot be sold because the US government regulates everything!! The excuse they use is because it is not sterilized, like milk being pasteurized. Through sterilization it is no longer salt or milk it is a completely different product once it goes through high heat. That's how they are able to weed out native sustainability.
me: doesn’t know what icelandic salt is
also me: yeah, why IS icelandic salt soo expensive??
marketing
Their answer is almost always high demand :/ but entertaining nonetheless
Epic Seal yeah am icelandic and can confirm we do put meth into it to make people addicted
Cause it has to be shipped from Iceland
I see you every day at least 5 times a day how many videos have you commented on
Ikr? 0% carbon footprint my ass
@@matteo805 How many videos have you watched?
Kul Snake making it
I see you everywhere in the comments now.
I tried doing this with sea water but, after it evaporated there was little pieces of lego
"salt has been part of Icelandic cuisine for hundreds of years" lmao uhh...
Well ... He's not wrong tho
Yah I mean they do use it for one of their famous foods Hakarl aka shark
Straight up fax
These videos were made for spending time during quarantine making up for my lackluster education by learning Icelandic salt trivia
You'll always get a better education and real perspective here than what you learned in your outdated school curriculum. This is all real time and latest and greatest.
Narrator: “This salt is all harvested by hand, in one remote and extremely cold region in West Iceland. But it’ll cost you 30x the amount of regular sea salt, why?”
Pretty sure you just listed the reasons
Exactly what I thought lol
correction there 🙋 it is almost all by hand. dont you see the modern machine? the salt harvester in my country can legit say by hand. non factory salt harvester is using basic tools for harvesting salt. the vid is showing a factory that produced salt.
yeah it is factory, you want to acknowledge it or not if they have machine it is a factory. by using hand it means no modern machine just using traditional way and tools.
I said the same thing 😂😂
I have seen in a video that in Japan, they produce salt by the traditional method and they #actually made without machines by talented workers.# And they are available in most of the continent stores in Japan and they are not as expensive as these salts which are marketed for their higher price.
Hi
"salt has been an important part of Icelandic cuisine for thousands of years" :O this show is eye-opening @_@ My head is spinning
Iceland is simply a treasure of the World, i honestly think its one of the most beautifull places on our planet
Plot twist: Icelandic salt is actually drugs and that’s why It’s So Expensive.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣 Good one!
Heisenberg wants to know your location.
The guy being interview is actually Walter white in disguise
😂😂👍
Imagine can’t have wife/kids because your job is making salt.
Lmao I literally thought that
You must be very salty
Hey that stuff was worth alot back in the day, of course you'd want to ban your workers from getting married to dedicate more time to salt making.
@@leehongjin6884 Yeah but they act like its being a doctor
Some people dont want that lifestyle
The phrase “made by hand” always confuses me so much
The man named Hand: hi
Just went to Iceland and it's just incredibly expensive with a 23% VAT and thermo energy is everywhere. So, these guys are getting the energy at next to nothing but still charging exorbitant prices.
Living costs are higher in Iceland and it looks like they're not taking advantage of economy of scale.
It doesn't even taste different.
It's no longer "zero carbon footprint" when you have to ship the salt to wherever you are, from Iceland, no less!
No it’s shipped on wooden canoe.
@@SuperPlayz 🛶🤣
SuperPlayz the tree is cut and no longer can produce oxygen
and in plastic containers none the less lol
@@sanjarsocool they can plant a new one from the trees saplings which they cut down
Salt is an invaluable ingredient for Icelandic cuisines.
Well.... very informative
They used it as a perservitive not to spice the food up basically they had to put all their food into barells filled with salt so it wouldnt spoil most of our traditional food , wouldnt call i cousin is made that way
@Ander Jr iceland has alot of culture its just that its not as it was before because of many factors like christianity, volcanp eruptions that killed more than 75% of the population and again 75% beacause of a virus
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@@sindrih1751 i think every culture that had access to salt in the past used it for preservation
Every cuisine. Salt is a preservative used for hundreds of years to preserve meat. It’s used in pickling.
“Why salt is expensive”
2.7 million people: “interesting”
Why did you feel the need to comment this?
@@NoName-de1fn why did you feel the need to comment THIS?
@@chinasgovernment2454 Yours is more copy paste.
@@NoName-de1fn how is it copy paste?
@M 3.7million*
I just bought a 3oz jar on Amazon for $10 (US). It’s very good! Nice crystals, moist and very clean. It’s my favorite salt, just above Maldon Salt.
Worker: "This is as green as it gets"
.....
Worker: packs salt into plastic bags ....
Just like you driving cars, use plastic bags
@Anna Bajomi Lazar care to elaborate on the word "nature friendly" for those plastic bags
@Anna Bajomi Lazar new version of plastic bags? how stupid can you be ,stop reading so much on Facebook because plastic bags are plastic bags no matter how new they are
@@shabbarali507 how stupid can you be? Theirs biodegradable plastics that will break down in water, do some research next time before you call someone stupid or you’ll usually end up being the stupid one.
@@shabbarali507 here I even did you a favor and got you a video of it..... ua-cam.com/video/IGwDmpInJio/v-deo.html
Well salt is salty
Soo what’s the difference
It’s greener. It’s rarer. It’s from Iceland.
@@sergeantrainstorm1269 it's bullshit.
JPAnor was about to say the same, salt = salt
It’s more healthier
Did you hear? Carbon neutral.
I had a bad Icelandic sea salt habit a few years ago. Cost me my job, my friends and my family. Going on 4 years salt free.. one day at a time.
Step 1. We admitted we were poowerless... 😁
Only two reasons any product could be expensive
1.Extraction process
2.scarcity 😊
And the rest is hype.
@@pfzht it's mostly just hype. Nearly everything is dirt cheap to extract and nearly everything isn't really scarce.
It's a front 60% salt 40% coke in their shipments, Icelandic ingenuity.
The price is high because it’s eco-friendly, handmade, and in a remote location (shipping prices). There’s nothing super special about the quality of the salt itself.
Edit 4: Deleted other edits just because. I also wanted to warn you all that the replies are a battleground of gatekeepers trying to invalidate this opinion because it isn’t a “review” of the salt (meaning that I haven’t tasted it, although I never claimed to or said anything regarding its specific taste). It’s an idiotic situation, so I thought I’d let you know so that you could save some time.
Is it eco-friendly when it's packaged in plastic bags and has to be shipped half over the world? Also sea salt is usually produced in places where the sun allows natural evaporation anyways...
Geo thermal power free, sea water free only high labour cost in the name of pure Iceland it's all about being snobs
Arturo Margonar Yes, but in comparison to literally every other product that packaged and shipped in the same manner, I’d say it’s relatively eco-friendly.
Arturo Margonar it is not shipped to far for some of us
Can you at least give your review then, or is your opinion based on nothing?
I ordered some Birch smoked Salt from Saltverk. I never had any salt that was comparable with this product.
Gott vidio! Meira vidio um sveppi takk takk.
Why Icelandic sea salt is so expensive?
Because it is cold
come to vietnam, get vietnamese salt, we do it by hand, dry it by the special troppical sun, and its dirty cheap.
I'd prefer Vietnamese Salt over the stupid Icelandic salt any day any time. Love from Pakistan
So you guys have your own "special tropical sun" over there... hmm... does it grow on mango trees or something?
@@melanphilia nope, the sun grows on special tropical coffee tree
As a Vietnamese i still use table salt. Like salt is salt i dont really care about the flavour or whatever its still going to he be used as salt.
I just like any old salt, my two favourites are bath salts and the other white powder salt that may be illegal
I just bought some of this salt from Amazon and it’s amazing.
2:50 "Salt has been an important part of Icelandic cuisine"........... Really!!!?
Yeah bro it is
Yeah for conserving etc. Salted meats etc
@@birgirdagurbjarkason3085 they’re being sarcastic
@@winterd0tter In what cuisine is salt not an important part of it? Preserving food with salt is a practice in every culture and that doesn't make Icelandic salt any more special.
0% carbon footprint, except for the packaging, and the transport is going to have a much higher carbon foot print than regular, local salt. So its honestly a net zero win carbon wise, and you are just paying more
Check mate
You don’t buy this because of the natural energy.... It’s just good salt not made in huge factories...........
@@--2 Salt is just sodium chloride nothing more, nothing less. You can have additional minerals in it like potassium but that's just less salt in the "salt". There is no good or bad salt.
@@TheBaca219 your math checks out salt does equal salt
Unless you’re Icelandic
Then it is a negligible footprint
“Why is Icelandic Sea Salt So Expensive?”
idk you tell me
Ikr
It’s always a kicker when the price of a product is the result of inefficient production methods rebranded as ‘unique’ or ‘artisanal’.
I bought a 90 gram jar of this salt while visiting Iceland last year. It was a bit expensive to my European wallet but honestly did not seem expensive at all compared to Icelandic prices for any other products, Iceland is just expensive to exist in, period. It was super interesting to see the actual process behind my salt. Now I’ll feel even more nice using it while cooking :)
Does it taste any different though?
@@dmd8552 well, I'm far from a gourmet so I can't taste the difference between ANY salts (or spices, or peppers), it's all just the same effect to me. But, as I'm getting older and living in an ill-air-quality area, I certainly appreciate the fact that I'm eating a more "naturally produced" product. Even if my taste buds don't feel the difference, my body most likely will in a few years.
It’s salt. You buy it once and you have it forever.
no
i always manage to run out even when i buy huge box’s 🤭 i don’t even know where it goes
Fvckitdxo3 don’t sniff it up bro
"environmentally friendly salt"
Yes shipping salt thousands of kilometers in big diesel fueled tankers is good for the environment.
The thing is that Iceland imports a lot of things from other countries, sending back those empty ships would be much more expensive in terms of money and fuel than taking advantage of them to export things from Iceland.
@@manjensen1710 yeah in terms of money it makes economic sense but its still using more diesel to ship than an if it were empty.
Nuclear powered cargo fleets will improve that wrong situation. Fear of modern fission technology seems to slow that possibility.
*In plastic bags*
Kenny Baka ;w; that’s what I was saying! They said they left no carbon footprint but package in plastic!
When was the last time anybody paid any attention to whatever is harvested in Iceland?
Wow, I learned something new today!!😯😁
You can basically repackage normal salt and nobody could tell the difference.
yeah, you might get arrested and sent to jail for many years when convicted of fraud but yeah you could.
Exactly..its a pure gimmic to make people pay more...
Welcome to china
@@nezomegamob Being a 100% green form of production is not just a gimmick, there's a whole philosophical point behind making and only buying green products, I don't particularly care about it and it seems so do you, but it matter for a lot of ppl and is technically better for the world
It wouldnt be that expensive if it tasted exactly the same, it is more pure and lighther and not as harsh as normal salt
I get bothered when he doesn’t let it drain when he scoops up salt lol
I am a lesbian
@@batheandrelaxinmyshit6344 ok same bro
@@batheandrelaxinmyshit6344 aight bro
Everythings covered in salt anyway. Pointless to let it drain.
Very interesting and highly informative 👍🏾
Cheers from Tropical Queensland Australia 🖐🏾
I'm an enthusiastic home cook and ingredients are extremely important to me. I always reach for the box of Morton's iodized salt. No one has ever complained.
Salt is salt and, honestly, I don't use that much of it. I season mostly with things like soy sauce, fish sauce, anchovies, tomato paste, Korean chili paste, Tabasco, mushroom ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Maggi, bullion, and, of course, MSG.
Mushroom ketchup! You know what's up
“0% carbon footprint”
Hell yeah those plastic bags scream %0
Lmao
They're made from 100% Ocean sourced plastic, so it's all natural 😂
What would you suggest for an alternative, Öztürk?
@@benpoole9505 I'm okay with them being plastic but it's not nice to claim a %0 carbon footprint...
we use biodegradable bags at my work that are just as strong as those plastic ones but they cost a lot
0 Carbon Emissions to produce until they actually have to ship it. Shipping and distribution where we do alot of pollution.
"Salt is important part of Icelandic Cuisine" Genius!
"Family was seen as a distraction from work"
And they aren't wrong.
Imagine running around that production with open cuts everywhere.......
Ohhhhh oh no ow
rip
Salt on the wounds!
It's a punishment given to those who deserve hell
@@thebalancer You sound like a lot of fun
So, basically buying this salt is waste of money.
Indeed
Yes, for you. But not for the people who buy it regularly.
@@Frendh Small pocket change for them
Just go to the nearest beach and get a bucket of water, then put it in a pot to boil and just make sure it doesn’t catch fire if you really want “fresh” sea salt or something, or just buy normal table salt
Not for normal and smart ppl you go buy your Chinese made stuff
Great, now I want some
Did I miss the part where they talk about the calcium, how it's removed, and how it redistributed to nature or industry?
Or was that what was meant by "natural minerals being kept within the final product?
Can’t have a wife or kids because of this work, the job will make anyone... salty.
When he says: “As Green As It Gets”
And When I see PE packaging:
And also International shipping
Regular solar salt producers are also zero carbon footprints I think...
@Thornback pathetic
2:51 "wow, we eat that. Its basically white sand...." stuff is kinda awesome when you stand back and take it in
Guga brought me here...Thanks for the tour...
Iceland: makes sea salt by using expesive equipment.
Bonaire: leaves sea water in the sun to dry
And it sure looks prettier on Bonaire!
@@AnaisAzuli we dont have much sun in iceland dumbass
We dont get alot of sun in Iceland so the only way to dry the salt is having expensive equipment
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I wonder why Icelanders don’t use their very common hot bright sunny days
Wonder how much more CO2 is emitted because it’s shipped from such a remote location.
Savage! Don't tell the environment-mongers. They'll skin you alive. 🤣🤣
@@theunahime7446 HAHAHAHAHAHA
No.
Cadence Hopp says that while happily slurping a vanilla ice cream
You could fly it so the ships won't pollute
@@valleyforgebbqcompany4219 Planes pollute too. Not trying to be nit-picky, but It'd just be interesting to see the real difference in total carbon footprint between this salt and normal salt. Obviously the actual production has a net 0 impact but how much further does it need to travel?
Haven't tried Icelandic yet. I use Celtic Sea salt from Ireland and have a couple ounces of 9x refined bamboo black salt. I do have a couple Himalayan pink salt lamps though lol. When I went to buy them, there was like 50 of them in the store and you can tell the difference in air quality
Still not as high quality as salt from an average League of Legends player's spit.
😗
What does it taste like?
Salt
Remember on that Penn & Teller show, when they cut a banana in half. They marked one half as a regular banana and the other as organic. They then got a hipster to see if they could taste the difference. Of course, the hipster said the organic one tasted better.
Buy this salt, hipsters.
@Thornback No. It just proves how stuck up people are in their bullshit.
Been watching a lot of these salt videos
I went on Amazon and bought a jar and now I'm hooked even after trying others like Jacobsen.. I even gifted jars to people for the holidays.
At Christmas
Hey grandma I got you a gift! id think you'd love it
o what can it be!
-opens-
it's salt....?
yes grandma I hope you like it! it's a special kind of salt!
based on your username would have thought you gift lumps of coal for , lol
The cheapest salt you can buy is actually the purest.
Exactly, in Australia the pink himalayan rock salt which is the most pure of sea salt is $0.03c to $0.08c per 10G
The $0.08c one comes in a 500g bag at $4
The $0.03c one comes in a 1kg bag at $3
@@VergilTheLegendaryDarkSlayer i dont think rock salt is sea salt
Bruh. Pink salt is from mountains and is the LEAST pure salt with almost a percent made up of other minerals.
@@rust3152 Depends on the country, but yeah it's usually mined from dead seabeds underground.
"salt has been an important part of Icelandic cuisine for hundreds of year"
I'm glad that it has spread all around the world wow
Idk why I’m watching this when I should be sleeping but I’m gonna watch it.
Wow this is really cool
Next video: *why German Socks work by a 60 year old man from Berlin is worth $1000*
Free piece of the Berlin Wall included
Angela Kindness lmao
"Salt has been an important part of Icelandic Cuisine for hundreds of years"
Salt has been an important part of every civilization's cuisine for over eight thousand years before there was even recorded history. Talk about completely unnecessary and pretentious sentences. 🙄 This video is just a thinly-veiled advertisement.
Yep. I mean, salt is only somewhat entirely essential for human life. Bizarre how every cuisine has incorporated this thing that we literally die without! :P
The world: Yo Iceland why your salt so expensive?
Iceland: Because it's viking salt
The world: Understandable have a nice day
Love the way Iceland conducts all business making sure it’s environmental friendly
And 30 times more expensive than normal..
"Harvested by hand"
Proceeds to show a salt-making factory
@Zachary Lash pretty sure the sifter and everything they use to transport salt wasn't a hand tool
"What did u say!?"
"Aaaaaargh....i love the salt...i love the salt!!"
the floor is salt, the wall is salt and even the air is salt. You breath that in and you can definitely taste the salt.
I watched this video maybe 4-6 months ago, I visited my parents this weekend and saw they had a small jar of something in the pantry. Lone behold it was this salt, I tried it and oh my is it good!!
This salt is on my spice shelf. It,s not tongue biting and I LOVE IT
As stated in the video, that factory produces 10 metric tons of salt a year or 10 million grams a year. If 90g of salt is $10.99 as they say, then that’s about $1.2 million a year. If $10.99 is retail, then they probably sell it for less for wholesale and then there’s operating costs.
"Why is it so expensive?"
Because a fool and their money is easy to separate with marketing.
Maybe you’ve heard of “Pink Himalayan salt”
What’s your job? Stockbroker
Icelander= I make salt
The logo on his T-shirt looks like it was made in Wakanda
Hey Insider, If you want to know about a very rare salt making process, look for Asin Tibouk which is made in the Island of Bohol. This salt takes almost 3 months to make.
Child while swimming: *Gets water in mouth*
The child’s organs: *WHY IS IT SOO SALTY!!!!!!*
HAHAHA IT'S SOOO FUNNY I'M DEAD LMAOOOOO
For the comments saying "salt is salt," yes but also not really. I work at a local spice shop and we have a vast variety of salts. The difference between them all are the impurities in them which give them different tastes/color, but most importantly they have different crystal shapes, lending a different texture in your mouth. While table salt has round, even granules, something like a Cyprus salt, used as a finish, has a pyramid shape and will have a thin, crunchy texture. Moisture content plays a role as well.
Table salt is nasty. They add anticaking agents such as sodium aluminosilicate or magnesium carbonate to make it free-flowing.
Marketing makes it So Expensive. People, its the same ocean.
No
No, thats not how it works
Yes
Yes, that's how it works.
It’s probably way cleaner than some other oceans. You wouldn’t want sea salt from Pacific gyre where the garbage island is forming.
"Salt has been an important part of Icelandic cuisine"
Meanwhile, all other cuisines in the world - AYFKM
I just bought a jar of this high-quality salt and used it in a fine Italian dish I make. my friends ate it all today! thanks to this video this salt is the best I have ever eaten by all means well worth the money you get what you pay for! so don't complain just enjoy it!
Cool !!
Ok it's 'green'. But is the quality of the actual salt significantly different from other salt? Sounds like not.
Had their salt before. You can taste the difference
Salt is salt. Chemically it's exactly the same.
Different trace minerals can affect taste, though the differences in salt mostly come from texture, grain-size, and color. Also, the process used in the video was not used purely for environmental reasons. The region is geothermically active and full of hot springs which are extremely useful to boil the seawater and to dry the salt. It is probably more financially beneficial and efficient to make the salt using this old fashioned method due to their location. They are simply using the one form of energy that is most accessible to them: hot water. So just because an environmentally friendly method is used, that does not mean that it is used for environmentally friendly reasons. The ‘green’ nature of the process is most likely a bi-product. Also, the high expense is probably due to its rarity. Considering it is the only factory that uses Icelandic seawater to produce such a specific type of somewhat impure salt using a minimal and old-fashioned process, it’s rarity must play a huge factor in its price. Its definitely not worth it for me and you. But for Gordon Ramsay, the slight flakiness and subtle metallic taste might be just what he needs.
@@dhirensingh8989 yeah because the cheapest salt is the purest salt
"Yeah, the planet is dying, but does it taste gooder?"
Never thought I would watch a video about ice in iceland and exactly enjoy it. Quarantine has finally got the best of me. 😅
1:16 remember guys it's really expensive so better don't drop it on the floor, with a totally avoidable swing :D
how the hell do you edit a comment and still make grammatical errors
@@Lukas-gz2vx I reported you to UA-cam.
@@yongyea4147 No!!! anything but that!!
All I can think about is making preserved pickle...pickle everything! would taste so good hahaha