Process of Making Traditional Salt of Aceh by Boiling Method

Salt is a very important commodity for people's lives, Salt can not only be consumed but also can be categorized in industrial materials, such as leaching, offshore oil drilling.For the people of Aceh who live on the coast of Lapang Subdistrict, Aceh Utara, Aceh, the average salt farmer, salt serves as a livelihood to seek sustenance, making this salt always done by people who live in coastline until now, although the selling price quite cheap, but people still run this traditional salt-making business, because the traditional salt making is the inheritance of his ancestors.

The process of making salt traditionally by boiling technique (boiled salt), the process of boiling salt, the process of making salt by boiling traditional, the first time is by using coarse salt made then dissolved with water, after mixed water and salt dissolve in water then filtered for water clear, after going through the process of boiling water filtration with fire about 3-4 hours. The difference between boiled salt and salt with a more subtle solar evaporation technique and salt by solar heating will be more rough.
Processed salt quality traditionally has to be reprocessed for consumption. However, this traditional salt is one of the needs of the people of Aceh.

The salt-making technique in Aceh still uses traditional techniques whereby the results of production in quality and quantity are still low. This condition occurs because the application of the production process on traditional techniques is still simple.