Unique Korean salt, bamboo salt roasted 1x, 2x and 9x
The bamboo salt production process
The process of producing bamboo salt is the process by which minerals in salt are converted into bioactive substances.
Bamboo salt is roasted 1 to 9 times
For the Koreans, numbers have great significance.
One indicates origin, independence and also with energy. The starting point, starting with your health.
Two indicates duality, polarity of yin and yang, additional forces, union. Find a balance for your health.
Nine, as the highest single digit in the decimal number system, symbolizes “completeness” in the Baha’i faith. It also symbolizes birth, human perfection, end and beginning of a new activity. It is the most sacred number in Korea. It is to achieve full health.
Bambu® Salz comes from sea salt (fleur de sel) extracted in salt pans off the West coast of South Korea from the Yellow Sea.
The salt (fleur de sel)
Collecting the crystallized salt in the pond of the Yellow Sea
The Korean sea salt (fleur de sel) is transported inland to undergo a major, almost miraculous, process.
The bamboo
3 year old bamboo is harvested in late fall or winter. Bamboo in this season contains many natural minerals.
The bamboo is stored under cover so that the juice and minerals are preserved.
The bamboo is cut into the right sizes.
3 year old bamboo is harvested in late fall or winter. Bamboo in this season contains many natural minerals.
The bamboo is stored under cover so that the juice and minerals are preserved.
The bamboo is cut into the right sizes. The white membrane on the inside of the tube is called Jukhwang and contains a lot of sulfur.
The red mountain clay
Collecting Korean red mountain clay.
Pressing the red clay to create a solid mass.
The bamboo salt production process
The bamboo tubes are filled with the Korean sea salt.
The bamboo tubes filled with sea salt are sealed with red mountain clay.
The filled bamboo tubes are placed in an iron barrel.
The bamboo tubes are burning.
Fire is made from pine.
The bamboo is burned to ashes and salt pillars are left behind. These salt pillars are then ground into powder.
The bamboo salt production process (above) is repeated for 2x and 9x roasted bamboo salt.
The salt pillars for the 2x times after the combustion process.
The salt pillars become harder by repeating the combustion process several times.
For 9x roasted bamboo salt, the tubes are placed in the final combustion phase, in a specially designed iron oven, and are melted on a resin fire at 1300 ° C into a kind of lava.
The specially developed oven.
The liquid bamboo salt looks just like lava.
The liquid bamboo salt goes into an iron barrel and cools down.
When the bamboo salt has cooled, it has become as hard as stone. The ‘stone’ is broken. Crystals have formed on the inside. These are ground to a coarse or very coarse structure.
