Our water softener requires salt crystals, not the pellets. The first time I cracked open a bag I thought to myself, "That looks just like rock salt." So when I made ice cream last time, I checked on the salt crystal manufacturer's website to see if it could be used to make ice cream as well. Checks out it's perfectly fine for ice cream. The great thing is, you can get a 40 lb. bag of water softener salt crystals at Wal-Mart for $4.28. Now that's a whole lot of ice cream!
So when my water softener needs salt, I just save the bottom of the bag for ice cream!
3 comments:
I've done that before, too. That was the only rock salt Wal-mart had that day I guess.
That is such a great tip. Tell Connel...he tried using Kosher salt instead of rock salt when we made homemade ice cream! HaHA! That guy cracks me up!
Genius!!
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