Holly’s Update

uncut baked salt block

Hi ladies,

As of today I have 11 of these (16 x 9 x 3 1/2 in.) ready for trimming down. As you all saw in the ice melting demonstration they have the shape of a baking pan, so I will shave them to look more like a rough block, though I may keep some of the surface texture. I will keep baking all through the weekend to have as many on hand as possible, but I think I will only need the 11.

texture after ice melting

Also, I have kept the two blocks from the “ice on top” and “ice on bottom” experiments. Over the first week the one with the ice on top seemed to have kept “growing” with the water it absorbed. This is what it looks like now.

And this is what the “ice on bottom” version looks like now, after staying submerged in water for several days.

I think the surface of the final piece will look more like the second of these three images, and this is reaction isn’t something I hadn’t fully anticipated. So, I’m excited to see how this will look on a much larger scale.