How One Of The Rarest Salts In The World Goes From Ocean To Table | Still Standing

Balinese palung salt is made by harvesting seawater from Bali's beaches and evaporating the water using coconut tree trunks. We visited Kusamba village in Bali to see how a community of coastal farmers are preserving their ancient salt-making methods.

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[agxryt]

These videos should have some way of supporting/purchasing the products being made, at fair-to-farmer prices. Would be a great way to keep these traditions alive, and increase the income for producers.

[LPdedicated]

This woman has an incredible view of life, even when facing challenges. What an inspiration!

[sophiaisabelle]

The rarest salt production seems mesmerizing to see overall. The workers have put a lot of time and effort to do their jobs efficiently.

[Robert-xpii]

Bless these people! She's laughing while talking about not being able to put meals on the table. That breaks my heart knowing how hard she works. And then a storm just comes along and washes away her coconut trunks. Someone needs to give these people some money. I'm broke or I surely would try and find them. We don't know how lucky we are just being born in another country.

[GenuinelyCurious]

I can't get over her positivity. She was laughing about not having money for food!
Backbreaking labor is strangely satisfying 😌 👌

[jazmynakins]

You can really see that she truly enjoys her work, I hope one day I can find some joy like this woman

[Cy_sufjans]

I admire her passion and love to her job, she looks looks like such a kind person. Kudos to her.

[ImpmanPDX]

It's a bit of a shame that I can't find it online to the U.S. I get that it's probably not worth shipping it here, but I love all different types of fancy salts! Looks like really big pillowy crystals which would make for a really great finishing salt for meats and chocolate.

[IESRIndonesia]

Kusamba salt is one of the best salt I've ever tried. I'm a salt lover and collect many different type of salt. It has sweet after taste and the salt is soft and melt in your mouth, yet still has the crunch of the pyramid salt. Also, the salt is quite moist in the jar I keep, but still non sticky to my fingers. Thank you the Kusamba salt farmers that remain loyal to their heritage. Your work is art ❤

[ddunning]

Wow! What an incredible woman. So happy and positive. Im going to pray for her. Inspirational person.

[Gigantic]

For your information :

- The woman says in balinese
- The man says in indonesian

[Stoicbirch]

Whoever wrote this script is playing way too much into the "hype it up for content" style of writing, because this is just salt. Low efficiency harvesting doesn't make it better, it just means that there's less of it at the end because of outdated and poor techniques.

[lrhwdqt]

Ive tried this kusamba salt. Its taste mild and have rougher grain. The perfect way to eat this is by mixed the salt with chillies, and eat this with pork skewer. So perfect.

[kluscclan]

“I will pass it on if someone’s interested. If no one is interested, I will leave” is the saddest part of this video

[nomore-constipation]

I friggin love that lady. She's my new best friend if I ever get down to her county. I just love her comments and facial expressions.

[tonyliem]

I'm a bit saddened by the topic about Salt or we are called 'garam dapur'. We import quite a lot of salt from abroad, even Indonesia is a maritime country. The weather factor also has a big role in why salt production in Indonesia has experienced many crop failures. Continuous rain due to the influence of La Nina hampered salt production and significantly reduced the production value.
FYI, based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Indonesia's salt import volume reached 2.83 million tonnes with a value of US$107.5 million in 2021 or around IDR 1.5 trillion (assuming the exchange rate on December 31, 2021 was IDR 14, 197 per US$).

The high import of salt is due to, among others:
1. Salt from home made production has not been able to meet the specifications for industrial salt needs.
2. The land area for salt production is still limited because not all areas of Indonesia are suitable for salt production.
3. Even though it is located on the equator, some areas of Indonesia are often colored by clouds/overcast.

[isaurodominguez]

Unfortunately not everybody appreciates something like this you're not just working it's magic it's art you're creating something it's a mind thing if you're not on that level you'll never understand

[masterxyr]

It's so engaging to watch such fascinating skilled workers. This is so much the opposite of an office job and being online

[nonamedpleb]

I love these rare salt videos. I would suggest doing one for Asin Tibuok or Dinosaur Egg salt from the Philippines. It has a very interesting way of making.

[ruthjazmine]

Hope Government can give them more facility and way to be more famous. I heard that even Japan also import their Salt because of the natural process and it's nutrition content. Hopefully they will sustain the business and Culture of making traditional salt, with some improvement for increase output 🙏🏻