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Making My Own Salt

My sister-in-law got a free rental weekend for a house in Nags Head. I had just read an Instructable on making sea salt and since we were headed to the beach it seemed like the perfect time to try it.  I found a few more articles and blogs on it and the basic process is Get sea water Filter out the sand and other junk Evaporate the water either by leaving in the sun or boiling or both Grind up to the consistency you want I got a nephew to got out in the surf with me and get a gallon milk jug and a couple two liter soda bottles of sea water.  First lesson learned - bring a bucket and wide mouth bottles or a funnel.  It is too hard to get the water in the surf to go through the little hole in these bottles and jugs.  It would have been better to have a bucket and then pour it in the jugs, filtering it along the way. When we got home I filtered it through some coffee filters which was a very slow process. I went back and reviewed the instructions and they all just filtered throu