Just wanted to know where some of you buy your salt from. Ive been using a fine stock salt from a local feed store, and it seems to work fine but its really dirty, makes the pickle look like muddy water. I dont know if this matters or knot.
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Hi
I get my salt in 50 pound bags at a local farm supply store. It is called 'mixing salt'. It is fine and white in color. I believe that dairy farmers mix it in with their cattle feed. I know that they also sell a brown colored 'mineral salt'. Maybe the darker salt is what you're using to make your pickle look 'muddy'. The white stuff that I buy is only $3.99 per bag and is clear in a pickle.
Hope this helps some.
Steve
Ill have to ask them if they have 'mixing salt' i just asked for a non-iodized salt and thats what i got.
do you use the same salt when salting a hide?
yes
I get mine at the local feed mill also,its called Top-Flo its an evaporated salt fine like table salt ,comes in 80lb bags ,if i'm not mistaking some use it to cure meats.Didnt care for mixing salt
its cheap
Just because the bag says it is stock salt,you have to ask if it is the fine white stock salt.I wasted a whole day calling around to different feed companies and farmers co-ops that had said yes it is what you want, but it wasn't.Stay away from the grayish dirty looking salt because you will end up with very dirty water.