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Salt Boiler: boiled sea water to produce salt. As the water boils away to steam, salt is left behind.
Salt Maker Career
- A job as a Salt Maker falls under the broader career category of Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders. The information on this page will generally apply to all careers in this category but may not specifically apply to this career title.
The Egyptians were the first to realize the preservation possibilities of salt. Sodium draws the bacteria-causing moisture out of foods, drying them and making it possible to store meat without refrigeration for extended periods of time. Delicacies like our modern-day Parma hams, gravlax, bresaola and baccala are all the result of salt curing. But back in the day, this type of preservation wasn’t limited to meat: Mummies were packed in salt too. In fact, when mummies were shipped down the Nile as cargo, they were taxed in the “salted meat” bracket.
The salt industry began with seasonal salt rakers coming to the Islands from Bermuda in the late 1600's and lasted until commercial exploitation of the salinas ended in the 1960s.
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