What is bamboo salt?
Bamboo salt is made using solar salt
from the Yellow Sea coast of Korea. To
make bamboo salt, first, you cut joints
of bamboo and put the solar salt in
them, and then seal the entrance with
clay. Second, you file them in an iron
kiln, and bake them with pine tree
wood fire. As a result, the bamboo is
incinerated into ashes and a white salt
pillar remains. You break the salt pillar
into shatters, and repeat the second
process 8 times and in the 9 th time,
using resin as a material, you melt the
salt into liquid by heating it at 1,300 ℃ .
When the liquid cools off, it hardens
like a rock. This is bamboo salt and
we can intake it in the form of flour or
grains. You can use it when you cook
food or eat the grains dissolving it with
your saliva.
This processing method of salt was
published by Kim, Il-hoon(1909~1992)
in the Daehan Pictorial from November
1971 to July 1972 in a series. The
method of producing bamboo salt was
widely known to the public as his book
‘The Universe and the God’s Medicine’
was published.
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