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19 daysYou definitely can but its not food-grade so perhaps take that into account.
- 19 days
Since this is “no stupid questions”, I will follow up with a question and demand that you not call me stupid: what about the lamp makes it “not food grade”? I assume that both salts are just NaCl, so do salt manufacturers put the salt through some process to remove dangerous contaminants or something?
- 19 days
Food is regularly tested for any poisonous/harmful contaminats. I would assume lamps don’t undergo the same quality control
Simply the fact that there’s no restriction on how they handle it. They can coat it in something that keeps it from dissolving in humid environments, they can store it among other products that could harm you they don’t have to follow any of the steps required to keep something pure, things like that. Although it’s sourced from the exact same location as himalayan salt for cooking, it’s path to you is vastly different(and less expensive to the manufacturer).
- 19 days
I assume that both salts are just NaCl,
One contains some other stuff too, the kind that you don’t want to eat
- 18 days
It’s Himalayan salt. The reason people buy that is because it has a loooot more minerals than just NaCL. You can literally see it by the color.
- 19 days
probably has chemicals or contaminants you cant use. i remember somone ask on another site, if we can use our own sebum oil as cooking oil.
- 18 days
You mean you don’t push your cut hair through a hot oil press to extract the sebum for pancakes the next day?
- 17 days
Himilayan salt (from Pakistan) is not just salt, it’s pink because of the other minerals. The pink comes from iron, magnesium, and potassium.
- 19 days
I mean theoretically you can grind up whatever you like and season your food, at least once.
“Bring out the uranium grater and don’t stop grating until I say ‘when.’”
- 19 days
Your smiley needs a nose. Is it a sad face with a hat or a demon with an evil little smile?
- 19 days
All smileys deserve a nose. For decades now, people have been mutilating smileys out of sheer laziness. It must stop. The smiley insurrection is coming, and I’ll be on the front line.
- 19 days
I’m sorry everyone is advising against it. If you need a pink salt itch scratched they make big blocks of salt the size of cutting boards to season steak (or something I guess, I think it’s a solution looking for a problem) but they are food grade so buy five of those, stack them into a cube (bottom face is the table) and put a flashlight inside the box and go to town!
- 19 days
Welcome to Lemmy! We have beans and corn and practical solutions to eating a salt lamp.
- toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish19 days
I’ve cooked with one of those. The idea is that you put it in your heat, then use it like a pan once it’s warm through.
I’ve only used it once so far (cleaning it looks intimidating since you can’t use water on it) and I was skeptical it would work as claimed, so I seasoned my meat beforehand.
I can confirm that it is very effective at conferring saltiness.
- 18 days
Some youtuber casted molten salt into a custom pan. Very effective at salting they said.
- toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish18 days
That’s what inspired me to buy mine! Still not sure I like watching the guy, but the wheel videos can be interesting.
- Leviathan@fedinsfw.appEnglish16 days
I totally agree. Not sure if I actually enjoy the videos or if the subject is passably interesting
- 19 days
Sure, as long as you avoid the bulb, but it is probably contaminated with a variety of heavy metals.
- 19 days
Someone gave me one as a gift when I lived on the Florida coast and I had to throw it away because it wicks up all the humidity and then leaks it onto whatever surface you have it on. Shit electronics sitting in puddles didn’t seem like a good idea.
- Janx@piefed.socialEnglish18 days
Can’t you use a higher watt bulb? Then the metals will be more light.
- 18 days
But then instead of heavy metal all that electricity will make it play techno
Yes, they come from the same mine in Pakistan. They process it into lamps, animal licks, rock salt, fine salt, etc from the same source.
Just clean the surface with a wet cloth to ensure there’s no residual dust/debris and you can shave away. It probably won’t yield even size grains, but you can use it for whatever you like.
it’s more for a joke example though, much easier to just buy the salt.
That all being said, the ones from Pakistan are not usually coated in anything after raw production, so if its from an unknown source, you might want to check if the seller maybe added some spray on agent to protect the salt, although I really don’t see any reason why they would do that.
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And don’t buy any pink salt that says “made in India”. That money essentially funds some PMLN crooks who thought it would be funny to kneecap Pakistan’s agriculture export market by banning sales to any broker except themselves, of which they heavily undersell to India who then makes profit and shares it back only with them.
EDIT: For everyone saying “not food grade”, the only difference is that it wasn’t quality tested for ingestion. That doesn’t mean the salt isn’t edible, it’s just not tested for that purpose. The mined salt rocks are the same for everything, only difference is size to be sold to each factory. I checked and apparently some sellers do coat the lamps with a protective gel for shipping purposes, so you would want to wash that off first.
the seller maybe added some spray on agent to protect the salt, although I really don’t see any reason why they would do that
i had a friend whose salt lamp either dissolved or evaporated. she swears she never saw her cats lick it, but c’mon dude.
probably? you know how you have that one lamp you don’t want to look at, maybe theirs was the salt block lamp.
In my (relatively uninformed) opinion, mostly yes, but kinda no.
While a salt lamp is made of mined salt they’re usually made of a lower grade of salt than the stuff that ends up for food use, so you’d probably end up with some unpleasant “dirt” flavors in the salt. However, more importantly most salt lamps I’ve seen have been varnished, since raw salt will absorb moisture from the air and melt into brine. So you’d also be consuming a lot of whatever they used to give the lamp a moisture proof coating and I don’t know how food safe that is.
- 19 days
Be careful with the outer layers at least, they could be covered with a protective layer.
- 19 days
Only if you make a video of it and share it with us.
- 19 days
Try it, and report back. If you don’t report back, we’ll assume you’re dead, and divide up your collection of POGs.
- 18 days
My nightly routine: read, masturbate, and always lick the salt lamp before turning it off
It brings bad luck if you don’t lick the lamp before turning it off.
See, I want to do the opposite. I want to take a bunch of pink salt, make a giant salt formation, and turn that into a lamp.
- 18 days
Just saw some YT videos of a guy trying to cast molten salt. IDK maybe that could work?
Nothing that crazy. I was thinking like using a turkey fryer to make a super saturated salt solution. Then set it up to form salt rock crystals. We did it with Epson salt in high school, but pink Himalayan salt should do it, right? I just never got around to it.
Turns out
youwe’re not alone in the world~~https://homeimprovementway.com/are-salt-lamps-edible/~~
Edit : Don’t click on that, like it was pointed out this is probably AI generated
Don’t eat your Salt Lamp, this is not food grade Salt
- 19 days
That article is LLM generated. A third of the way into the article and without any human sense of self-awareness or irony it says:
Let’s get straight to it—are salt lamps edible?
That’s an em dash, notoriously something LLMs use. Then after that there’s a lot of dot pointed lists and tables. Again, indicators of an LLM generated article.
It drives me nuts that em dash use is assumed to be LLM. I use em dashes all the time, I like them and I don’t want to stop using them and I also don’t want anyone to assume I’m a dumbass LLM
- Mac@mander.xyzEnglish19 days
Em dashes alone don’t mean things are AI generated—many of us use them, even if you dont.
- 18 days
Probably using a rock crusher. Then a ball mill.
In Pakistan the rock crusher is probably a guy with a chissel and hammer.
