Why France's Most Expensive Salt Costs 230 Times More Than Table Salt | Insider Business 

yup, "himalayan" pakistani salt requires as much labor and it's just as rare, but they can get away with paying the miners like $2 usd a month.

Plus storage for a year after harvesting and before selling it.

Just look at that guy's salt harvesting outfit.

In the US that’s the only kind of cheap labor there is

fancy can and packaging too.

i'm french and i don't know how can they say $420, it's 20€ per kg in supermarket

@@juju-od3qx 420 dollars is abroad, and the video shows a small glass jar of like 50-100 grams, so if they can sell 50 grams for 21 dollars or 100 grams for 42 dollars at some super expensive health store in Los Angles or something, then it costs "up to" 420 dollars per kg

I guess business insider is just as bad as the people who marked up the price ..they know the price is inflated up ridiculously..yet they just take it as the truth and report it as such...its just sea salt ..that tastes salty

​@@juju-od3qxThe same way free springwater can be sold for a dollar or two in a bottle.

@@cummerou1 in Quebec we pay like $9 CAD for 125g, so that's $72 CAD for one kg. One of the boxes I saw says it was handpicked too...

cuz french people think they are so pure and fancy, they have the worst language, sounds like someone trying to use mouthwash and they know it, so they have to charge 100X the price for common stuff

They use their hands instead of toilet tissue 💀

Vice versa with India 🇮🇳

where else could we get such connection to nature!?

@@turbopower7308no we don"t

I wonder why. Cause only one French region that is Celtic. Brittainy.

@@balls9420 The Celtic peoples existed all over Central Europe, all of the British isles and even down into the Anatolian and Iberian peninsulas. A really wide ranging cultural group.

@@Syrkyth I'm talking about surviving Celtic regions. Of course they were across most of Europe. They are the natives of most of Europe.

@@Syrkyth The Celts settled in Europe as far as western Romania, search on wikipedia "Celts in Western Romania".

​@@balls9420I believe you'll find it's spelled Brittany, or Bretagne in French.

they defrenched him! honhonhon 🤬

there's also an error when he talk the moist content of dried salts. He said "6 to 8%"(6 à 8%) and they wrote "6, 7 or 8%".

whats the difference@@yosie89

Workmen's clothes? *_Sacrebleu!_*

So... should developed countries stop doing things like farming, woodworking, or salt collection if it is cheaper in other countries?

If you like trying these kind of different salt, I much recommend fleur de sel, it's very nice! It's expensive per kg, but we never use that much salt, a small box can last you easily for a year for a family. Sprinkled on top of a steak or a salmon, it's perfect 👌

What do you mean by humidity?

@@AlexanderTheGreat91 It's more sticky and not like a dry powder

I switched from table salt to the Himalayan salt. It's really good on everything!

yup...bamboo salt or volcanic sand salt much more interesting for me

한국에는 대나무소금도 있지만 영상같은 염전도 존재하는데 염전노예를 사용하기때문에 가격이 아주 저렴하다 생산지역에 가까이가면 노예로 잡혀간다

Yeah, this just a bunch of marketing spiel. Are there differences? Sure Are most people gonna know? NOPE. Still, the coarse french salt vs the real fine does make a difference in the final taste. Just not 400 bucks/euros worth!

yeah.. asian contries' salts were far more better than what they produce, people should not always think that because its from a "european country" or from "america" is its instantly a "premium quality" grade. smh

@@MrJTL19 somehow I feel like it is the opposite

Fleur de fries 🍟 💸 💰

@@loanokaharbor8303 Sprinkle salt on the soft serve ice cream and call it McFleury

lol@@loanokaharbor8303

French-ier Fries

Mf really thinks that salt can get 230 times more expensive because it dissolves a bit slower and has a crunch instead of the worker not coming from a third world country

Its funny how they justify just about everything by attaching a higher price tag

It’s the white-supremacy of it all. If it’s made by hand in France or Spain or Italy, it’s ~boutique~ but the same process in colonized countries is “unrefined” or “backwards” and “unsanitary”.

@@dikshantbali3529 especially the Japanese in this matter.

It's because we value our labor unlike your third world country lmao

in india, it costs extra if the producers wear gloves. in france, it costs extra if they don't.

good luck pressurizing this volume of water at an industrial scale for the same price as nature is doing it here

Only the texture might be replicable but ordinary salt does not contain a significant amount of minerals and impurities besides sodium chloride, which makes it just salty, without the extra unique flavor.

So are you also going to replicate the minerals in the water, and mud.

@@curlyhairdudeify Sure can.. How do u think they make Alkaline water lol they infuse active minerals with the water anything is possible. But morons rather spend trillions on war that's coming out of the people's pockets taxing everything when a fraction of that money can be used to stop cutting corners in farming or over priced bs as if extracting that salt is such hard job lol. Dude just comes and sweeps it with a broom thing.. im sure 99% of people can sweep some salt above the water lol but no lets stick with gmo farming and move away from organic better for the earth farming.. Keep cutting corners.

I'm sensing clone meat levels of work here.

If I could cook more (I'm disabled, so it's really hard), I'd _love_ to try out that smoked salt. Sounds like it would add a nice smoked flavor to things without a bunch of nitrates and nitrites that make my IBS flare up.

When I was a kid, they had "salt ponds" like this in San Francisco Bay near the Dumbarton Bridge. They are now part of a wildlife refuge and I suppose they don't harvest salt there anymore.

also good on a chocolate cake

gate keeping steak

And some bed bugs

Haha! Well this one's actually made in France so I guess it makes sense it gets a French name :)

Even Bed Bugs

Yeah they are straight up lying, Fleur de sel isn't as expensive as they make it to be, it's at most twice the price of table salt

Probably the most disastrous take I heard in a while ! My dude please don't talk about wine. You are clearly not worthy

@@lachevremagnifique7664 got to love all these anonymous internet know-it-alls.

Funny to see you proud of being ignorant

Did it taste salty?

Maldon is flakier with bigger “sheets” that is comparable for the most coarse varieties of fleur de sel. The finer versions of fleur de sel can be comparable to coarser versions of kosher salt. It’s all along a spectrum of salt/surface area/moisture content/mineral content

There were times when salt was worth more than gold....

There are people that pay such prices for water too when the tap water is perfectly fine...

With Bed Bugs

What's your salary?

I live in Milpitas Ca. It wouldn't appeal to me to eat the salt from this area as it is just to polluted in my opinion.

Mate, you are too excited for fuckin' salt.

All the flavours... why so salty kosher man?

@@ovilondon3589 Just saying that 100g of fancy salt is never worth $13 (not even 20 years ago).

@@cshubs it's not fancy salt It's "Fleur De Sel Salt" 🙃

.... they are both salts. But fleur de sel, and even flakier variants, linger more (due to shape) as finishing salts and as a result you could use less and get the same level of perceived saltiness. The finer versions of fleur de sel (like the ones in this video) aren't going to linger much more than your typical kosher salt though.

Me too always have im a container lover

They made a video on some 9x black bamboo salt or something like that and said that was the most expensive

Plain salmon right out of the water and smoked salmon. Which do you prefer? Which would you pay more for? The plain or the one with contaminants? A bowl of water and a bowl of soup. Which one do you prefer? The plain bowl of hot water or the bowl of hot water that's "contaminated" with spices and vegetables. Unless you have personally done a taste comparison you haven't really any right to label someone's very open and above board livelihood a scam. To me that's tantamount to defamation. It's only a scam if they tell you that you are buying "product A" and you get "product B" instead. If you are told that you are getting "product A" and what you receive is indeed exactly what you were told you were going to get then you have NOT been scammed. Also if you were listening, some of those "impurities" were things like potassium, magnesium and calcium. All of which are things that you need in your diet. Personally, even if I were a billionaire I wouldn't buy it unless the flavor was so ecstatically fantastic that I couldn't live without it. Then again I wouldn't be buying any $1,000 bottles of wine either. Not because I don't think that there aren't any bottles of wines that are worth $1,000 a bottle but because I'm not all that crazy about wine or fancy salt. Any thing that you purchase that has more in it than just the pure main ingredient in it is "contaminated" with impurities of one type or another. It is these contaminants and the labor that goes into collecting and combining them that cause us to be willing to pay more for that product. So I'm sorry but I just don't see your point.

The premium part of fleur de sel lies not in its composition, but its texture. The crystals that forms are hollowed, meanign you can bit in them and get a nice crunch, while not losing a teeth or two. It's also way less expensive locally. 20 euros the kilo, and it lasts for a looong time. Normal thick grained salt is at 3,50 euros the kilo.

‘I don’t want extra flavours in my food, I want the purest chemical formulæ’ - things usually uttered by the consumers of the purest sugar with the purest ascorbic acid in their fizzy drinks.

by "such" you mean "precisely zero" right? Because that's what happening.

Thank you!

​@@q_ayyah what is it actually you?

@@arethas1387 yes!

Mmmmm microplastic salt.

Interesting thought. Forever chems are a growing concern. Radioactivity? Heavy metals?

No need to test it, there are some in it. You even can find microplastics in snow in the mountains.

did you see the video? There is nothing like filtration so anything in the see is in the salt (same organisms, same compound event same shit disolved in the water...)

not even close to true. i bet you buy the cheapest spices/aromatics you can and then over season your food.