Why Kenyan River Reed Salt Is So Expensive | So Expensive

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On day one, harvesters cut out these river reeds. And in 8 days, after drying, burning and filtering, the reeds will produce one of the most expensive salts in the world. Just one tablespoon of river reed salt costs about $1 in Kenya. Compare that to the 4 cents it costs locals for the same amount of sea salt. So how do producers make salt from river reeds? And why is it so expensive?
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@rafaelperalta1676 2 года назад

I'm glad that there's a decent local demand for the salt and that locals appreciate it. Things like this definitely deserves attention.

@boringbastard4920 2 года назад

sound like crap jod

@phoneusandfroboof829 2 года назад

i honestly wanna try and get it. with the flavor they described in it i can only imagine how delicious it would be on a steak

@abubibs 2 года назад

What boggles my mind is how someone at some point of time thought about and devised this process and generated this salt

@fernandojrmartinez4893 2 года назад

Im about to comment this hahahaha its kinda intruguing who or what influence them to create such complex technique.

@fiddleywest3778 2 года назад

It can only be devine wisdom and guidance.

@bakedbean37 2 года назад

@@fiddleywest3778 Dissolving the salt out of something in water and then evaporating the water to collect the salt is hardly rocket science. It seems a little patronising to think that such people could only work it out with the help of some higher outside intelligence. Their taste buds will have told them the plants contained the salt and the rest would have been fairly obvious I imagine.

@brettblute7739 2 года назад

He told us it was "The Magic".

@kikaykimy 2 года назад

Same!!! hahahaha

@erikad0511 2 года назад

I really enjoy this series, it's so interesting to hear about different cultures and how local people are keeping that culture alive after generations. Keep up the good work

@bmm894 2 года назад

Agreed . End my day with videos like this .

@XzctR 2 года назад

Man, this is a wonder world in your head. They do it just to survive. I hope they will move in another country and stop doing unpromising things like harvesting and evaporating dumb salt.

@erikad0511 2 года назад

@@XzctR huh, I have a wonder world in my head? you might think its dumb salt but #1 no one cares and #2 the local community thinks otherwise soo

@JacquelineALaMode 2 года назад

Happy to see 🇰🇪 Kenya being featured

@sufferr2914 2 года назад

My dad was born in Kenya🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪

@Tom_Samad 2 года назад

And i just want to add that i think the Kenyan flag is one of the coolest national flags in the world!

@after5hock273 2 года назад

The pronunciations though really killed me. Couldn’t stop laughing. Proud Kenyan 🇰🇪

@kayesacliff900 2 года назад

@@sufferr2914and so!!? you are still Kenyan by blood but not by birth

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@Catafracta230588 2 года назад

I hope everyone notices the labor of Andrew and not just for his production, but for his intelectual level of commitment, as he tryed getting the reeds in artificial way and made a conclusion.

@LordNest66 2 года назад

I really liked that part. Perhaps he came to the conclusion that the actual source of salt is somewhere in the river's course, the river carries the salt downward and the reeds absorb the salt during blooming season.

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@Catafracta230588 2 года назад

@Irving Shekelstein yes, at a basic level perhaps

@sampathsris 2 года назад

@Irving Shekelstein Maybe we can call him a scientist. He did employ the scientific method and found something. This kind of discovery is actually worth a scientific paper in a recognized journal, if properly written down.

@sampathsris 2 года назад

@Irving Shekelstein you must be really smart and fun at parties.

@sampathsris 2 года назад

@Irving Shekelstein Nah. You can decide that. Clearly you are qualified to nominate people for the Nobel prize.

@atomicgringo6710 2 года назад

Man I wish I could order some of this salt directly from this gentleman! Love to see him working hard and grinding for his! Much Respect!

@trevormorara9770 Год назад

Am kenyan i can get this for you.." chumvi ya kienyeji" its a realy good type of salt

@PYPoison Год назад

@@trevormorara9770 can you still get some?

@PYPoison Год назад

@@trevormorara9770 let me know how I can work with you to try some.

@trevormorara9770 Год назад

@@PYPoison cool where can i get it for you or deliver it to you.

@kevinvitalis6661 2 года назад

This is amazing!since we started using the salt in the hotel,it's popularity is growing, people around bungoma (Kenya)love it for it's medicinal values,and it's ability to tenderize meat..as a chef I can say it's cost meets it's value....

@AbenaMcKenzieSoapiphany 2 года назад

How can we order this River Reed salt?

@esitapatel3250 2 года назад

Where can I buy this salt? Would love to try it once

@gerardosalazar527 2 года назад

Please talk about it's medicinal values because it's hard to find veritable info about it.

@SimpleSaemple 2 года назад

There is most likely no medicinal value in this salt. I really want to taste it though.

@wangarireginah Год назад

Never heard of this salt till today...where can it be bought?

@CamAteUrKFC 2 года назад

It's expensive because other salt is cheap. It only seems expensive but given the labor going into it, it's not all bad.

@colinthiel1283 2 года назад

I would say it's quite cheap considering the labor that goes into it.

@noustrant 2 года назад

Same as pink Himalayan salt. It's expensive because of labour and also the shipping cost. It has no medicinal values or extra taste, it just looks distinct because of the pink colour of it.

@gengetoneke10 2 года назад

As a Kenyan this is the first time I’m hearing about this. Incredible.

@petergithuku2669 2 года назад

Me too.

@Kehy_ThisNameWasAlreadyTaken 2 года назад

I'm curious if a similar type (certainly not identical) could be made elsewhere in the world. Rivers all around do have reeds, but I've yet to hear of anything like this process in other places

@KingofZamunda. 2 года назад

You are not alone!

@kennedyngumba320 Год назад

Ata mimi manzeh

@harrisongithaiga5983 Год назад

Mm pia man 😂

@shane864 2 года назад

I love that you did a deep cut locally expensive thing like this, I had never heard of it. More of this kind of content pls

@tessiepinkman 2 года назад

This salt sounds delicious. I love anything that has even just a hint of umami, and I loooove a good salt. So this seems like the salt of my dreams.

@MV-bj1yk 2 года назад

C'mon man, go buy some Morton's

@caster3678 2 года назад

Nah i'm ok.

@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 2 года назад

Use regular salt with a touch of msg. Salt is salt.

@angryalientv4964 2 года назад

Just salt

@kukulroukul4698 2 года назад

meteorites have umami too :) try one !

@sumeru0728 2 года назад

One day: Why natural water is so expensive Why natural air is so expensive Why natural soil is so expensive

@mra.prasetio 2 года назад

It's really sad when we get to that point. Even now microplastic is already in our bodies. The damage to nature that humans do is immeasurable and we only realize it when we lose access to natural things.

@kayesacliff900 2 года назад

this is a manifestation some 150 years from now this will be the case even though none who is alive now will ever see it manifest

@rubenaugustoritto156 2 года назад

Good soil is actually quite expensive

@viralkenyan6249 2 года назад

I've lived in Kenya my entire life and I've never heard of anything like reed salt. Our local journalism must be trash.

@kelvyncharlie4876 2 года назад

wa kenya ni royalty test tu... who is cheating on who 🚮

@itgamingke 2 года назад

Because they only focus on reporting politics and murder or accident news everyday

@LasdilElizaga 2 года назад

what amazed me is the person who discovered it. Of all the grasses out there, he was able to find out that these reeds can produce salt 😂

@jamesbizs Год назад

The water has salt in it. Grasses grow in the water. Grasses have salt. Could probably do the same with getting the water and letting it evaporate.

@kristinashamgunova9327 Год назад

@@jamesbizs I'm sure people would have done that if that would produce good salt but I think the reeds work as a cleaning agent in the process of obtaining the salt. There might be just too much other stuff inside that water. Or maybe not, who knows.

@rhasta80 2 года назад

This is so interesting. In the Philippines we have a similar salt called "asin tibuok". It has the same process in making it.

@leonardalcoran203 2 года назад

I was about to say the same thing! The only difference is they use papyrus and asin tibuok uses coconut husks.

@rafaelperalta1676 2 года назад

I wish that traditions like asin tibuok would continue to exist.

@astayandablinkisastink9980 2 года назад

@@rafaelperalta1676 one piece is about 400 pesos now😅...and it's hard to find too, even though I'm just a few towns away from the makers

@_perryperry 2 года назад

Whoa. I'm from the Philippines and I've never heard of this. So cool

@rafaelperalta1676 2 года назад

@@astayandablinkisastink9980 I wonder what the price could be here where I live. I'm from down south of Ph. 😅 Edit: Maybe the production is low(I've seen Erwan's video about it). I personally think most of the supply straight up goes to restaurants and other buyers.

@boarbot7829 2 года назад

Looking at the prices of some “luxury salts”, I think they could sell it for more!.

@jovelnom 2 года назад

Yea way more. The process itself is an art.

@plur_ndbn 17 дней назад

It is no Na-based salt, something like FeCl3•2KCl and possibly very dangerous to eat

@krishnaag6366 2 года назад

Those are being sold for a really cheap price if compared to the work these guys have put into it.

@jhosuacelle1236 2 года назад

Word.

@carimpest 2 года назад

This is why infrastructure is as important as production, you cannot pay a fortune to people that literally produce in stone age technology and forgive me for the rudeness but this is a reality in the whole world...

@krishnaag6366 2 года назад

@@carimpest Yeah true 👍 but there are things which just couldn't be manufactured in a different way and if done it looses it's value and originality.

@carimpest 2 года назад

@@krishnaag6366 Japan is an example, technically the Wasabi making process is the same but the way they preserve the plants, take care of their employees, and also the sustainability is way more of this century, and not like in edo Japan, where I assure you they would cut the hands of a worker if one rut got ruined...it also reminded me to the liquor made in India out of the cashew apples ,they made it like if it was the first century...there's a reason why it isn't mainstream 🙄

@TheBooban 2 года назад

@@carimpest hmm. But i think you can pay for it if that’s what you want to do. People pay for stupid things all the time. They could triple the price of this salt and you wouldn’t notice the higher cost for a meal in an upscale restaurant.

@Bayoll 2 года назад

This is so weird, I've never heard of ash being turned into salt. I'm assuming it contains a lot of potassium? Might be a good source for it

@bloodyricho1 2 года назад

It is kind of a huge part of making gunpowder. Saltpetre is a salt made from grass and urine

@awardfoto1 2 года назад

Yes its potassium salts. Nothing more nothing less. A plant in so much water would not contain high NaCl

@Ahinana 2 года назад

There is also bamboo salt, they have video about it

@RapTapTap69 2 года назад

@@Ahinana yeah but that's salt with bamboo being burned around it to enhance it. Not bamboo being extracted from bamboo

@biggusdickus2166 2 года назад

In canada, animals like moose must eat aquatic plants in order to get enough salt in their diet. I guess reeds worldwide just have more salt in their tissues

@demonpusher 2 года назад

“I feel like eating powerful salt today”

@johndean6333 2 года назад

I love this channel they bring the best kind of documentaries that others can't match.

@jasondomican1991 2 года назад

I absolutely adore these workers, they are so proud 🤜🤛

@PhoenlxA 2 года назад

That river reed might contain a lot glutamate like tomatoes. So the salt is like tomatoe extract having the umami effect.

@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 2 года назад

Sounds like it. Expensive msg.

@TheBooban 2 года назад

@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 natural msg.

@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 2 года назад

@@TheBooban it's all natural. They extract it from seaweed.

@culodesobra 2 года назад

@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 thats cap

@pesty4592 2 года назад

@@culodesobra you even know what msg is made from???

@Aledharris 2 года назад

Normally there’s a depressing twist in the tale that the people taking the risks and putting in the hard labour aren’t the ones who see any of the rewards. I’m glad in this instance their work pays them directly.

@crenfick7750 Год назад

I was thinking that. It's good to see.

@stardustpink 2 года назад

I would love to try the River Reed salt! It sounds very delicious. I can't imagine how good it would be with many kinds of good foods. Wish one day it can be sold in America as well :)

@mariadonzella4646 2 года назад

😉

@nandakoC 2 года назад

I can ship you some!

@phillmilton2613 Год назад

@@nandakoC I would love to buy some. Can you help me?

@PuneetMehra 2 года назад

I and my friends LOVE the SoExpensive series Please continue. Thanks

@jameskaruga6730 2 года назад

This is a great story as a Kenyan I approve-:) and proud.

@QOOQ8808 2 года назад

Wasiendee chumvi ya River Yala 😬

@jameskaruga6730 2 года назад

@@QOOQ8808 no no that one is tainted with You know what.

@jamesmorgan7651 Год назад

Excellent as always. Slow Foods did a great duty by creating a presidium for this magnificent product. They should definitely be rewarded for their labor.

@roadvihari3907 2 года назад

"Is So Expensive" videos are always awsome to watch.

@QueenQueenly 2 года назад

Wow what a crazy long process to get a tiny bit of salt. I admire his patience. So much work. I bet it tastes amazing

@curtislee3521 2 года назад

I believe it’s not even expensive. For the amount of work it takes for these guys just to make 20 dollars. I think i would pay five times the price of it if the farmers get all the money

@Trund27 2 года назад

Incredible. Great video!

@ravenflare8076 2 года назад

I am kenyan and i legit have never heard of this. so interesting and i definitely have to try this once

@dandandan18 2 года назад

I hope INSIDER also features much more of Souetheast Asia. There's just so much to discover there, but I also hope that they frame the topics consciously so that the value of the products remain (not like what happened to matcha)

@archiej6386 2 года назад

Classical third world country mindset. Harvest and Don t plant

@deepfriedmackerel2263 2 года назад

I know right! Southeast asia is rich in history and resources.

@swankyangelo8527 2 года назад

Asian people are the biggest ethnic group in the world. There is TONS of representation EVERYWHERE! Literally EVERYWHERE, just like white culture. Let’s let the black people get some shine in the world that we pioneered. Peace and love.

@mabeSc 2 года назад

what happened to matcha?

@stephenlambert6407 2 года назад

@@swankyangelo8527 my phone is dead and I’m working out of here in the next month so I’m just waiting for the new one for my job

@orusandornots1915 2 года назад

Would love to try this salt someday

@trevormorara9770 Год назад

Hahaha am from kenya how she said "Chumvi ya Kienyeji" really made me smile....proud to be Kenyan 🇰🇪.

@derrickrancho 2 года назад

Am a Kenyan but never knew about this- Just found this article online and am like wait, this was being done this way. I learnt something new today.

@The_CIA 2 года назад

*I never even knew this existed.*

@criessmiles3620 2 года назад

This is Africa where everything began Cheers from West Africa 🦅

@marjorie575 2 года назад

I have this salt in my house. We use it for intense flavoring. (Not seasoning regular things like chicken) but for large pots of soup. One time our soup got bad and my mom put this salt in it. It fixed it instantly

@eloycolombo7125 2 года назад

Wow

@samwinchester7844 2 года назад

How can you fix a bad soup with salt? Does salt kill the bacteria/mold/worms in the food? Can you fix rotting meat with this salt?

@luketargett2233 2 года назад

@@samwinchester7844 its the flavour lol

@JPAnor 2 года назад

that s bs

@stisselux9371 2 года назад

@@samwinchester7844 i think he was a talking about the taste but i really don't think eating soup that went bad is safe.

@War4uTv 2 года назад

This looks amazingly beautiful. They are so hard working

@johnmuhoho255 2 года назад

finally some content from my lovely Kenya

@gregmay8049 2 года назад

This is not your typical salt. This must be potassium Chloride and not sodium Chloride (table salt) as we are used to. It's much better for your health, especially your heart as potassium is a very important electrolyte that more than 90% of people are deficient in. No wonder locals believe it has special effects, it really does. Everybody in western nations know it's better for you to substitute sodium chloride, and this salt (potassium chloride) made from reeds is just what we need. Nice video.

@stephenndongoli3326 14 часов назад

Very nice observation 👍

@charleswanjohi6488 2 года назад

Am happy to see this as a Kenyan,great income earning potential for locals.

@itgamingke 2 года назад

Same

@harunmwangi8135 2 года назад

👏👏Good job Business insider-- Doing a better job than Kenyan media

@franciscobautistaii7413 2 года назад

Salute to you sir for the tradition you pass on!

@asteriaastra4292 2 года назад

With that long process they deserve more imo...very interesting ☺

@mwitalemi 2 года назад

Great video. Just for clarification, "chumvi ya kienyeji" is kiswahili for "traditional salt", not river reed salt.

@pinchesmbuche4354 Год назад

But comes from reeds

@Manu-rl1pd 2 года назад

Am kenyan living in kenya and am learning about this salt here.🙆🏾‍♂️

@animallover19581 2 года назад

Bless these harvesters, long may they continue.

@ecrusch 2 года назад

I would really like to try some of that.

@thunderclipper 2 года назад

anyone who knows basic chemistry is cringing at the ash water heated in an aluminum pan

@kieragard 2 года назад

Extra minerals my friend 😑

@abrahamonyango9781 Год назад

Am a Kenyan, yet this is so new to me and very amazing .I wish to taste this

@jeffm3283 2 года назад

Great video, I had never even heard of this reed salt before. Not ridiculously expensive either, would be great to try

@ZaasKenar 2 года назад

Yet another type of salt that's only expensive because of its exotically-weird production process.

@TheBooban 2 года назад

Better than paying for bottled tap water.

@SophiaElibaby 2 года назад

@@TheBooban true

@davidnelson7719 2 года назад

@@TheBooban Not really, it is about the same.

@yezdanus 2 года назад

since the reeds are burned, there will be hardly any organics left in the ash anyways; the same salt could be extracted by boiling the river water directly because the reeds pick the minerals from the river anyway, or maybe evaporating the water in open-air salterns the additional flavors may come from alkaline substances or partially burned material in the ash but two products have to be analyzed separately to compare them burning the reeds themselves will reduce fuel consumption and the area necessary for operation but without a steady supply of reeds (which they claimed they didn't have) it doesn't seem very efficient

@TheBooban 2 года назад

The reeds do the job of concentrating the salt and minerals over time so you don’t have to boil so much water and fiddle with adding the mineral properties, so it’s efficient to get the taste they want. They are devising ways to get more reeds. I don’t like that they are burning so much and the complain of deforestation.

@yezdanus 2 года назад

@@TheBooban i agree with reeds concentrating, you are right but they might achieve the same by using open air salterns, just using evaporation I am saying it is worth a try

@watrgrl2 2 года назад

@@TheBooban Also, I would imagine that the banana leaves that the salt is dried and hardened in are imparting their oils and juices as well. Banana leaves give a great flavor to foods cooked in them.

@martino6205 2 года назад

You will need lots of litres of water to boil. The reed is already concentrated.

@wangaimwangi2777 2 года назад

Kenya my motherland. Lots of love. 🇰🇪 🇰🇪

@oneshotme 2 года назад

Necer heard of it Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up for support

@cheydinal5401 2 года назад

Please make videos about why some things are so incredibly cheap, like for example regular salt or yeast (or whatever you want). I've never heard of most of the stuff in So Expensive, because, well, it's super-expensive

@ErikBramsen Год назад

As a rule of thumb, the more expensive a product is, the more environmentally destructive it is. This is a good example: imagine how much river bank you have to plunder to get a ton of salt. They also note that muh climate change is destroying the ecosystem because... the locals are cutting down the trees - some of them used to produce this salt in open pans. The particle pollution must be off the charts.

@anni5385 Год назад

@@ErikBramsen not true at all. palm oil is cheap, paper is cheap both incredibly destructive. Countries worth of forests and environments gone for their production. Bananas, gas , plastic! Come on bud

@ErikBramsen Год назад

@@anni5385 Cheap compared to what and destructive compared to what? Do you suggest there's a less environmentally destructive way to produce oil and paper? Because both paper and digestible oils could probably be made from hydrocarbon feedstock much cheaper than growing them -- we already did this with margarine That way, we could get rid of all the slash-and-burn plantations in the Amazon and in the Indonesian rain forest, give the orangutans a break. But somehow I doubt your commitment to saving the planet goes that far, does it?

@anni5385 Год назад

@@ErikBramsen My only suggestion was that your "rule of thumb" is not always the case. In fact often an item or product being "cheap" causes a greater demand which is often supplied by countries in which environmental impact is not of great importance. Plastic is cheap, mass produced and thown away with no regard how many horrible issues do we have because of this cheap item? I have no qualms with you sir and was only trying to share my opinion that I feel your "rule" doesn't account for so much environmental destruction caused by cheap goods in high demand.

@anni5385 Год назад

@@ErikBramsen I understand and respect your opinion sir and I hope you have a great day.

@revelationdefy3345 2 года назад

How does one think to do this in the first place? Lol

@criessmiles3620 2 года назад

This is Africa where everything began Cheers from West Africa 🦅

@CookswellCoKenya 2 года назад

This is so cool!!

@Sole880 2 года назад

Business Insider: “why this special salt is so expensive”, “how this salt is so expensive”, “this salt is so expensive!” Viewers: “OH I WANNA KNOW WHY THIS ONE IS SO EXPENSIVE!”

@soullette 2 года назад

haha true

@Coltan999 2 года назад

Because this idiots need 8 days to proceed it. :D

@astayandablinkisastink9980 2 года назад

a big part that draws viewers is the culture (I think), though we do wanna know how the process goes that makes it expensive😆

@ZOCCOK 2 года назад

Andrew looks like the younger brother of his own sons

@taylorw.914 2 года назад

Super interesting!

@singhbhawana 2 года назад

I am so fascinated that I want to taste this salt

@brantkim 2 года назад

Considering the labor involved and the scarcity of the resource the bigger question is why is River Reed Salt so cheap.

@ikill4less 2 года назад

Because salt is salt.

@SimonSozzi7258 2 года назад

Fascinating. There's always something new to learn. Something new to try. I'm so curious 🤔

@azeljoyportugues2580 2 года назад

Exactly, I didn't expect this one. I mean a burned reed, turned into this incredible salt.

@gracewambui6058 Год назад

Am Kenyan and didn't know we have such salt,will for sure try it out.

@clownworld3913 2 года назад

Seems pretty chill way to make a living.

@JF-xq6fr 2 года назад

This has me thinking of very ancient tribes who did similar being far from salty waters... Can you imagine what it must have been like to add salt to say freshly roasted venison for the first time.

@jamesbizs Год назад

Salt was used as a preservative. Not as an ingredient or garnish…. you didn’t put salt on fresh venison. You eat the fresh venison.

@aminashamala737 2 года назад

A very interesting episode I am Kenyan and lived in Kenya all my life ,but didn’t even know such a salt existed Very educational indeed!

@0animalproductworld558 2 года назад

God bless business insider 🐇 Such a blessed channel! 🐒

@Bellz972 2 года назад

Big respect for harvesting substainable 😀👍

@Alias_Anybody 2 года назад

So I assume it's just good old NaCl (because these reeds contain more of it than most other plants) mixed with CaO as well as K2O, MgO and their carbonates like any plant ash tends to contain? Something that could be produced industrially for dollars per metric ton and has no inherent value apart from it being a pain to produce?

@dhruvakhera5011 2 года назад

well yea like pink salt but it is a local product so industries wouldn't really make it

@ragnarragnarsson3128 2 года назад

They should check the salinity of the river water

@farticlesofconflatulation 2 года назад

There’s a premium to pay for backbreaking labor regardless of how unnecessary it is. Just look at the difference in price between mined diamonds and lab grown.

@AllisterCaine 2 года назад

Yeah I guess so. Any decent food chemist worth his salt (sorry) could put those guys out of business within a day or two.

@ragnarragnarsson3128 2 года назад

@@AllisterCaine but then the chemist couldn't sell his product as free trade cruelty free organic non gmo raw Reed salt 😉

@XobXiong 2 года назад

There is a glaring piece of information that I was waiting to learn more about but which never came and also in my research could not uncover: where does the salt come from? Do the reeds absorb the salt from the river? Do the reeds create the salt through a chemical process?

@ghodge82 2 года назад

I wondered that too.. not as scientific but where does the crystal form* or how Does it attach lol

@Aikano9 Год назад

The river is likely salty, the reeds absorb the salt water as it grows. The salt most certainly comes from the water.

@davidkimani7660 Год назад

think of sugar cane...i suppose

@jamesbizs Год назад

@@davidkimani7660 lol. What? No! Not even remotely the same. Sugar cane makes the sugar. These reeds absorb the salt. Do you think sugar cane soil is sweet?

@jaymevosburgh3660 2 года назад

This is truly incredible! That is so much work. I wish there was a way I could help people like this directly (without paying a middleman most ov the profit for the least amount ov work)

@yoyohortiglance7176 2 года назад

Very intresting loved it❣️❣️❣️💟

@mjheart7145 2 года назад

Buying at the locals for cheap and then the buyer sell it very expensive...that's the answer to your question..why the river reed salt is expensive..

@RajA-0202 2 года назад

It's wild how a set of work gloves can change the lives of the folks in this video... something we take for granted, just buy a get of gloves online or from Walmart

@devtech4661 2 года назад

There ain’t a wallmart in kenia, nor does package delivery work properly

@_Painted 2 года назад

Yeah… and a coffee maker and filter to drip water into ash without needing a human to ladle water by hand and slowly trickle it on ash for hours.

@RajA-0202 2 года назад

@@devtech4661 it's Kenya bro, and secondly thats my point. 😒

@kabumanuw163 2 года назад

Lol...plastic gloves are clean?

@itgamingke 2 года назад

@@devtech4661 Kenya not kenia

@Maya-yp2ey 2 года назад

I love how they pray first before they start their day. May God Bless you more 🙏🏼

@TheCaneSlingerCherryflexrattan 2 года назад

Any Kenyan here?So proud to watch.

@kiloton1920 2 года назад

I wonder if this can also be done with trees that grow in salty environments

@geraldmaxwell3277 2 года назад

The reeds are actually grown in fresh water so they do not have much NaCl but instead, have more of other salts like Magnesium and Potassium.

@martisbvk 2 года назад

This is not salt. It’s potash. So any plant that is high in potassium (very green, high cellulose) will yield potassium chloride.

@kiloton1920 2 года назад

@@martisbvk so basically we are being starved of many other mineral salts that we need? Other than what’s in table salt?

@minhducnguyen9276 2 года назад

@@kiloton1920 If it's refined salt it's mostly sodium and some iodine. If it's sea salt it will have some calcium, magnesium and manganese. If it's salt from the mine the concentration of other minerals will be higher, some say it enhances the flavour. While increasing the potassium content of salt will make it healthier (until it goes over 20% then it's becoming unhealthy), potassium chloride has a bitter albeit salty flavour. Not sure whether you can consider it an improvement.

@lppl7780 2 года назад

Chemically this salt is going to be very different from common table salts. It is going to have a lot of potassium chlorides and nitrates.

@anonofurbizness6400 Год назад

Primarily potassium chloride and carbonate, though no nitrates especially after combustion.

@kevinchege2218 Год назад

Fantastic Journalism!

@moes2168 2 года назад

This is how they made potash, aka potassium and this is basically that. Take ash, mix it with water, filter it and dry the water in a pot and voila, potash. More power to them for making a living out of selling it to chefs who can sell it as "tradition" because at end of day, it's just potassium salt.

@rajeevkalyanam9079 2 года назад

If this salt were from Japan, the price would've been 10s of times higher than what these guys are getting..

@deditsuwabuki1359 2 года назад

Because it's take lifetime to make salt? lol

@LasdilElizaga 2 года назад

$1 a tablespoon is already 10x expensive than table salt. so i would say it was priced right. only thing is they have to mass produce the reeds to have more extraction.

@marckobuendicho3883 2 года назад

They have their bamboo salt. Whoch is very, very expensive

@ibrahmaina7073 2 года назад

This is my country and i didn't even know about it.Good job

@darvin_thegoat4755 2 года назад

Do you have Super mall in your country?

@sree9973 Год назад

Really Great efforts, would like to try the salt🌸

@GHOSTWORKER19 2 года назад

I am born raised and still live in KENYA 🇰🇪 and i have never heard of this type of salt. What on earth.

@churchether 2 года назад

Very interesting, but that aluminium pan getting scraped with a steel spoon 🥄 must somehow increase the aluminium content in the salt. Aluminium is highly toxic!

@TheBooban 2 года назад

Good point.

@anonofurbizness6400 Год назад

Yeah and granted for example wood ash is primarily potassium carbonate and sodium carbonate (historically used for soap making), you would assume this ash would be similarly caustic. Given the amphoteric nature of aluminium, it would surely be reacting with a warm caustic solution.

@MrBakedDaily 2 года назад

It cost so much because people are dumb enough to pay alot for it.That type of reed with grown nearly anywhere .

@geraldkongoini7084 2 года назад

Nailed the Chumvi ya kienyeji part

@DaveTan65 2 года назад

My cousin in Shenzhen will also produce it soon.

@stevencoulombe7717 2 года назад

Doesn't running water through ash dissolve potassium hydroxide too?

@johnmike7809 2 года назад

Just Basic salt

@missingthe80s58 2 года назад

Yes. That's what was used to turn oils and fats into soap.

@johnmike7809 2 года назад

You missed my joke. Basic (lye) salt.

@worldwide_cruising 2 года назад

*I pray that everyone who is watching this masterpiece becomes really happy and successful in life!*

@nip5662 2 года назад

Better give me your money I will be happy 😊

@suneptiba1083 2 года назад

Amazing

@pendop1662 2 года назад

Am kenyan and this is new to me but definitely goid to know

@nvrluki7608 2 года назад

Uh, isn’t leaching ashes just giving you lye water? Dehydrating this gives you sodium hydroxide.

@corebry2936 2 года назад

No no its magical african salt that gets its properties from a deity who pisses in the river, and when you eat the salt you turn into lion that can do voodoo

@missingthe80s58 2 года назад

Pretty much. I'm sure there are other salts too as there are in any plant derived ash but without some analysis we have no idea how much of what. Some of the words used like "sharp" kinda gives away that it certainly has hydroxides in it.