Marblehead Salt Company owner Andrew Bushell uses a long flat wooden spoon to skim off a few crystals that formed on the surface of one of six boiling pots. The pots are all at different stages of the "salting" process, and Bushell closely monitors each pot, combining pots when they have boiled off enough liquid to be mixed with others, and in the early stages of the process, adding freshly mixed salt water to the boiling pots.
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