my 250 million year old salt has expired
Yup, that’s Earth alright. Rookie numbers, as usual.
well‐preserved, clay and carbonate‐bearing sedimentary fan deposit located on the western edge of the crater
This fan is estimated to have formed approximately 3.2–3.8 billion years ago when ancient streams flowed into the Jezero crater lake
Best by != Expiration
Yup. When it expires, its done for. When it’s past the best by date, it just means it’s best days are over. Much like my own.
Maybe it’s like a bottle of water and the expiration is for the plastic
I used to have a pre-filled salt grinder that said “freshly ground for fresher taste”. I always thought “you don’t understand how rocks work” whenever I would read it.
The surface of the salt grains reacts with what is in the air (moisture, smells), slowly changing the surface over time, and since it’s that surface that touches our taste buts most, the taste of the salt will be different.
Salts are also often not pure sodium, but have added elements that give it a distinct taste and aroma. That original taste/aroma will be lost over time, because aroma = smell = particles flying away in the air. Long exposure to a strong smell will also cause the salt to acquire that different smell as part of it’s new aroma.
Starting from larger grains and grinding them shortly before usage, would thus give salt that smells and tastes more like it’s fresh from the salt factory. But I do wonder how many people would be able to tell the difference in a blind test.
Surface area is a thing. You can use differently grounds salt for different effects.
Sure, but that has nothing to do with being freshly ground resulting in a fresher taste. You can buy different grinds of salt.
You’re entirely right, I just wanted to interject some nuance.
c’mon, fam, you were SPRINKLING some nuance…
Freshly ground nuance.
For a fresher perspective
And a grounded one
People missing obvious puns really GRINDS my gears.
The trick is just to pepper them in normal conversation. Otherwise people get too salty about them.
The only advantage is having no anticaking agents
Yeah. Works for pepper not for salt.
If you dump it on your garden it’ll make your vegetables salty so that when you eat them you don’t have to add seasoning. The more salt you put the better the plants will do. My grandpa Ahmed used to tell me about that trick when I was a kid and his yard was the most wonderful desert.
It’s what plants crave.
it has electrolytes
I’ve got electric lights in my house too but you don’t see me giving them to plants do you?
Me in my yard, wondering why I wasn’t invited to the plant rave:
It’s actually the expiration date of the plastic container.
I wish it were the expiration date for Earth.
I kinda like Earth.
It’s the only planet that has kittens.Earth is honestly really cool and most of nature is awesome.
It’s pretty much just humans and most stuff they’ve created that are terrible. Earth would be better off without them by a landslide.
That’d be a big landslide if it’s supposed to kill all of mankind. /s
there have also been societies that valued sustainability and closeness to nature, and some still exist. they’re not the ones destroying nature, and it’s not inherent to the human experience to destroy nature.
It blows my mind that with all our technological progress, it’s so easy now to make the world a better place, and yet…
… that you know of
There’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…
I strapped my cat to a rocket when I was a kid to seed other planets with them.
Unless you sent two, that’s not going to work. It probably wouldn’t have worked with two of them, Bob Barker and Drew Carry have been preaching the Spay and Neuter message for as long as that show has been on the air.
I was a kid I didn’t know about sex.
Probably for the best, then. After all, you didn’t send any mice or birds for them to eat.
It’s close.
Lmao, the ultimate edgelord over here.
I wonder if that’s because of the microplastic contamination more than the actual salt lol
Probably because the container is only able to keep moisture out for so long before the quality degrades. “Best by” means “we can’t guarantee quality after this date, but it probably won’t hurt you after that”, while “use by” means “if you consume this after this date, you might become ill, and there may be no indication that the food has gone bad”.
It’s because some states require expiry dates on all food items, and they didn’t think to create exemptions for things like this. I think only a couple of states require it without exemption, but no one wants two versions of their products, one with a date and one without, so they just put it on all items now, like the Prop 13 warnings.
Where i can buy 249 million years old salt?
“Best before the Rise of the Machines.”
Could be sleeping in chemicals from the plastic.
And yet somehow the billions-years-old atoms in your body encode a 35 year old, and then a 78 year old, then …
