Re-granulation of Salt - - Does anyone have Any Suggestions?

Why?

Nuke it.

Meat tenderizer hammer and a metal bowl and just chisel away at it, without making a mess.

If it comes down to it, a hammer to break into chunks, then a mortar and pestle.

Just get a salt grinder. It is just like a pepper grinder.

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I bought one when I bought several pounds of Himalayan pink salt.

Last Edited by JustmeTX on 07/04/2022 01:47 PM

grains of salt at work...

Break it up and put it in a blender or food processor.

Use a grater.

Salt is salt....put chunks in a coffee grinder.

Because that salt is part of my "stash" and as such needs to be in usable condition for something other than an excellent murder weapon. But thanks for taking the time to answer!

Thanks for your suggestion. I'll give it a try!

LOL! When I first read your reply, I thought you were saying "meat tenderizer" and thought "But meat tenderizer is probably much more expensive than salt!"

But then I realized that you must have meant one of those little hammers with the bumps on the "business end". You did, didn't you?

I heard that storing salt and white rice together would prevent the salt from clumping. Rice absorbs moisture. Just use a strainer to catch the rice when pouring...

Thanks for the mortar and pestle suggestion. It will be considerably quieter and I'm sure more desirable to the neighbors! Happy 4th of July!

Look up rock salt graters

I've seen those in the Spice Aisle at the grocery store. That's a particularly nice-looking one, I must admit. My issue is that I'll need one which will hold an entire cylinder of Morton's table salt which has welded itself together into a 26-ounce brick.

Wow, THAT was certainly bizarre !! Thanks for the interesting science experiment!

Good ideas because both machines have lids so that the salt/salt dust won't get blown all over the kitchen. Thanks!

I might just give that a try. Thanks for answering!

hammer is what I would use

That suggestion seems to have won by general consensus . I will give everyone's suggestions a try and let you know how they turn out.

The results might provide some vital information for people who are trying to gather necessities for times to come.

PS.: Once I have re-granulated the salt, does anyone have any suggestions about keeping it from welding back into a big ol' brick again? Thanks!

THIS.

People who live in areas of high humidity usually put rice in their salt shakers , (mixed in with the salt), to prevent caking. The holes in the lids of the salt shakers allow the salt to flow out, but keep the grains of rice inside.

Wow, thanks! After all of the work which I'm sure that it's going to be in order to re-granulate the salt, i surely appreciate your suggestion to keep the salt from clumping up again!

I guess I would just hammer a chunk off every now and then, rather than degranulating the entire thing. Because it could just harden up again.

Maybe put it inside white fabric before hammering, and then wack away.

Then, as someone said, you can probably mortar and pestle pebbles of it till it is in small pieces like sand.

You can place small pieces inside a salt grinder on the table to get an even finer grind.

You can probably get away with throwing sand-sized granules into things like soup.

Last Edited by Eilonwy on 07/04/2022 09:27 PM

Seal it in a metal cannister. Close it up on a very low humidity day or a short heat up in the oven....makes DRY heat. You don't want to seal up moisture laden air.

One thing that I wouldn't try is dropping or hammering it on your tile floor, or countertop.

Last Edited by Eilonwy on 07/04/2022 09:30 PM

Of course you need to break it up to get it into the grinder.
a chisel or a heavy scraper should break it up easily enough.

I would not put it through a coffee grinder as it is corrosive and will likely mess up the grinder. Then you will be asking how to grind coffee. :)

Last Edited by JustmeTX on 07/04/2022 10:01 PM

I've had this happen to a 1 lb bag of salt and it literally breaks apart in your hand. Are you sure you really needed to post a thread for that or is this a coded plea for help?

Have you never bought a bag of ice at the store that needed to be broken up?

Morton salt I believe is coated with some kind of silicate to prevent clumping.

If she just bought straight up NaCl, I think it can harden into quite the rock. We used to get rock salt for the driveway and you would need to bust it up a little.

Wow, I just looked it up. Morton Sea salt adds a form of Cynaide to the salt as an anti caking agent. Wonderful. I hear good things about cyanide.

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For regular morton salt,

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"What chemicals are in Morton Salt?

Morton Iodized Table Salt contains food grade granulated sodium chloride selected from the middle screen fraction of vacuum pan production. Calcium silicate is incorporated as a free-flowing, anticaking additive; it is food grade and generally recognized as safe (GRAS)"

Last Edited by JustmeTX on 07/04/2022 10:12 PM