Ocean water?

#1

So I usually add salt to my water, and sometimes I do a few shakes too many and it’s pretty strong. Got me thinking, if I had a Nalgene bottle full of sea water, what would that taste like?
I have all these images of scenes from movies where guys in rowboats are dying from drinking the ocean.
I googled it, and it said 3.5% of the weight of seawater comes from dissolved salts. So if a quart of water weighs about 2 pounds, that’s 1.1 ounces of salt which is 6.6 teaspoons if my math is correct. Ok I guess that would be saltier than what I’m drinking. :smile:

(Karen Fricke) #2

Drinking salt water at that concentration will often make a person vomit. The body knows it’s too much salt.

(Patrick B.) #3

1 teaspoon of salt is 5 grams or about a day’s worth.

I’m pretty sure 33,000 milligrams would go past even a ketoer’s need. :grinning:

#4

1 teaspoon can be about 5-6 grams in ‘Salt’ (depending on the type of salt, some are listed as 3g per teaspoon, etc) but not sodium for any salt I’ve been able to find so far (haven’t seen any salts that are pure sodium).

So, 1 teaspoon of Morton Salt is just south of 2.5g of sodium, as a reference. Kosher and Sea Salt are typically less, but the grind matters for the volume (coarse, fine, etc).

I guess the question is are we talking about salt or sodium here, but I’d assume salt because I wouldn’t think we would measure pure sodium in teaspoons.

(Stickin' with mammoth) #5

Depends on where you dip it. The Atlantic is a little saltier than the Pacific, but both are sickeningly saline. You can force down maybe a teaspoon before your face contorts.

Yes, I know this from experience. Yes, I did it on purpose. Yes, I’m weird.

PS: For emergency muscle cramp relief, I’ve mixed about a quarter teaspoon of sea salt into a cup of water. It nauseates me but the cramps disappear in minutes.

(Stickin' with mammoth) #6

UPDATE I just found the sweet spot (salty spot?): a level quarter teaspoon of sea salt in two cups of room temperature water.