If you cook vegetables without using salt, of course the taste is not perfect, how do we as humans live without salt. Salt is certainly needed by the human body as a counterweight to fluid levels in the body.
Although salt can bring bad effects when consumed too much, even though our bodies need salt. Well… this time I made a story about people in my area panning for salt either traditionally or some of them have been panning for salt using a membrane method or a little more advanced.
Lancok residents in coastal areas, precisely in Syantalira Bayu District, who have been producing salt from sea water for generations. At that time, salt became a source of livelihood and became a medium of exchange for the people there.
When we go there, we still see a lot of the debris of pottery or cooking utensils made of clay in every hut where they make salt. The huts or huts are used by the community to stay overnight when they make salt around Lancok Beach.
Well sometimes the money they get sometimes doesn't match the work they do, the price of salt is very cheap, panning for salt for a whole day, sometimes only getting a little money.
In that place it's not only men who pan for salt, we also meet many middle-aged women who work under the sun and cook salty water to be used as salt in rectangular iron cauldrons.
Even though they are quite old, their hands are very strong at stirring salt in a cauldron and arranging wood so that the fire is evenly distributed while cooking to meet the needs of their family life .
To my knowledge, to produce 40 kilograms of salt, they need approximately 12 hours. Usually they work from 07.00 WIB to 19.00 WIB.
“If the water for making salt has been raised to the top of the furnace to be cooked, and the result is almost salt. Dzuhur I go home first, after eating and praying back again continue to cook, "said the middle-aged woman at the time,
According to this woman, after the salt is cooked, it is cooled first in a wooden container before being sold to buyers who come to the area.
Well, some of the pictures that I present, hopefully can make you feel like you are in their midst, I hope you like it. Thank you.
This is my entry for the daily #monomad challenge hosted and curated by @monochromes.
