Storing salt

[randyt]

Wasnt sure where to post this.
I have read some folks intend to salt cure meats and suchlike during hard times.
In my mind to do any volume, that will take a lot of salt. Salt is fairly cheap currently. Our feed store has food grade salt for 11 dollars a 50 pound bag.

What is the best way to store large volumes of salt?

 

[d_marsh]

I have some salt stored in mylar bags inside food grade buckets. Like most things, you want to keep moisture away.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I know of people buying the 50 pound salt blocks from the feed store. Just keep them in a dry location. They store better in low humidity.

 

[dademoss]

A sometimes overlooked salt source is the hardware store, for water softener salt. Under 8 bucks for 40 lbs here.

https://www.mortonsalt.com/home-product/morton-pure-and_natural-crystals/

I also have a stock of Iodized.

 

[LadyLocust]

Wasnt sure where to post this.
I have read some folks intend to salt cure meats and suchlike during hard times.
In my mind to do any volume, that will take a lot of salt. Salt is fairly cheap currently. Our feed store has food grade salt for 11 dollars a 50 pound bag.

What is the best way to store large volumes of salt?

Uline has food grade barrels both plastic and steel. Or there are buckets (that’s what I have mine in). Not sure what kind of volume you are thinking. I too did as D and got mine for cheap at the hardware store. I do use it for making icecream so get about a bag a year and rotate through it like my foods etc.

 

[Sourdough]

If you have any friends in the Taxidermy Business, hit them up for salt. We would get thousands of pounds of salt (NO Iodine) months before each hunting-guiding season.

 

[Patchouli]

I don't have large quantities of salt but what I do have has been okay so far. My mom always put a few grains of white rice in the salt shaker to help with moisture/humidity, seems to work.

Uline has food grade barrels both plastic and steel. Or there are buckets (that’s what I have mine in). Not sure what kind of volume you are thinking. I too did as D and got mine for cheap at the hardware store. I do use it for making icecream so get about a bag a year and rotate through it like my foods etc.

Thanks for the handy tip, @LadyLocust