Sea salt is produced by the evaporation of seawater. Sea salts tend to be coarser and grainier than traditional granulated table salt but both types of salt have the same basic nutritional value.
At the wash house, the salt is dropped into a saturated brine solution to wash off any impurities. Because saturated brine is already carrying as much salt as it can hold, very little salt dissolves in the wash.
The process for harvesting sea salt today is really the same […]
