Isekai ni Kita kedo, Seikatsu Mahou shika Tsukaemasen - Ch. 10

[Spitzer]

I get some people being ignorant of sea salt if the region they live in happen to be so abundant with salt mines, but sea salt not been discovered before ever is just hard to believe....

 

[KoffeeStarZ0e]

nooo i want more chapters, i can't wait for another 2 months T_T

 

[karappo]

Maybe rock salts are far more plentiful and accessible that people of this world didn't bother searching for salt in other places like the sea for instance.

 

[CapnAndy]

That’s a perfectly logical explanation For them, not mining salt from the sea. Except that’s not what they said. They were seemingly fully unaware of the fact that seawater contains salt at all.

That’s something that should be painfully obvious simply by boiling water and finding salt residue in the bottom of the pot when you’re done

Yeah, like… it’s salty. Patience just mentioned that it is salty.

You know why things taste salty? BECAUSE THERE’S SALT IN IT

Maybe rock salts are far more plentiful and accessible that people of this world didn't bother searching for salt in other places like the sea for instance.

Sure, if it’s un-economic to harvest that makes sense. But they were treating “sea water has salt in it” as a revelation in and of itself.

 

[Luke_chase]

You know for all the people saying how dumb this plot point is, at least you gotta admit it’s original. She isn’t an isekaid person inventing soap for the bazillionth time

 

[HighStream]

I hate hate HATE it when isekai authors assume that everyone before the industrial age was stupid. Extracting salt from sea water is an ancient practice that was done practically everywhere with a coast because you literally just have to boil the water or leave it to dry in the sun. You can't possibly tell me that no one ever figured out that there was salt in sea water.

 

[ReadingMangaHere]

The royal family is gonna be like "we have only had her for a day and a half, but if we lose our Patience we will kill everyone in this room then ourselves" they just keep getting more and more dependent on her

It's a good thing Patience is a virtue.

 

[MasterPannya]

they didn't know there is salt in the sea

Well that was fucking bullshit

 

[finalm]

How the f had nobody ever boiled sea water before?

Or just tasted it in the water itself... This is another case of author stupidity. Humanity has known about salt in seawater since before written history, the problem was harvesting it efficiently enough.

 

[finalm]

im glad that everyone agrees this is a mind-bogglingly stupid plot point

Next,this author will be telling us people die when they are killed.

 

[finalm]

At least with how they presents it

Spoiler

the amount of salt you get vs the amount of fuel you burn to boil it makes it economically unviable
especially compare to the already accessible rock salt

don't remember if Patience ever tell the prince about the actual sea salt farm method tho (evaporation ponds)

It wasn't accessible. The whole point of only getting it from mining is what made salt so increadibly valuable in the past. Even the word "salary" relates to it, after all.

 

[GreenDude1]

How the fuck the sea salt farming never really took off, especially from a country that has access to sea? Even in our world, it was already existed from 6000 BC through archeological findings.

Because people are racist towards the past. They believe people in the past were stupid and moronic when they were as smart as you are mean. There are so many Isekai stories where the main character invent something that should have already existed for thousands of years. There was this one comment to remember where someone said "at this point the author should just have everyone walk around Barefoot and have the main character invent shoes for how many things the people don't but should know"

 

[jasty]

No, you don't get to be a medieval civilization without learning that sea water is salty.

 

[stilgar]

I really love these comments

 

[OWMWO]

How the fuck the sea salt farming never really took off, especially from a country that has access to sea? Even in our world, it was already existed from 6000 BC through archeological findings.

To be fair, no one will know about it if no one teach us, even in modern times. Ancient times plays a role as well, people are scared to experiment due to budget, or angering those in power who can seize their hard work. While those with budget see no point in investing something with unknown result.
Or for the joke, I can picture uneducated kids with access to net screaming SEA SALT IS A SCAM any day now.

Extra thing to note, sea salt need more than painstakingly evaporation process before it is safe to use, as the salt still carry impurities from the sea. A little is fine, but not for everyday consumption.

Proper education to build a basic logical critical thinking is important no matter what, this chapter showed even royalties are flawed in this matter.

 

[athros]

Because people are racist towards the past. They believe people in the past were stupid and moronic when they were as smart as you are mean. There are so many Isekai stories where the main character invent something that should have already existed for thousands of years. There was this one comment to remember where someone said "at this point the author should just have everyone walk around Barefoot and have the main character invent shoes for how many things the people don't but should know"

To be fair, no one will know about it if no one teach us, even in modern times. Ancient times plays a role as well, people are scared to experiment due to budget, or angering those in power who can seize their hard work. While those with budget see no point in investing something with unknown result.
Or for the joke, I can picture uneducated kids with access to net screaming SEA SALT IS A SCAM any day now.

Extra thing to note, sea salt need more than painstakingly evaporation process before it is safe to use, as the salt still carry impurities from the sea. A little is fine, but not for everyday consumption.

Proper education to build a basic logical critical thinking is important no matter what, this chapter showed even royalties are flawed in this matter.

I guess I understand that part, but the issue was, well, it was salt. It was as vital as grain for humanity, if not much more.
If the country is landlocked completely in the middle of the continent with no cultural and economic exchange to other countries, it'd make sense.

But to the point of the absence of the knowledge of it, completely? How's the WN explaining about this? The only way I can imgaine is that somehow, there's a catastrophe horrible enough to simply reset almost the whole civilization, leaving some of the higher-medium class of society that barely knows the general know-how to start it all over again.

That, or aliens.

Maybe rock salts are far more plentiful and accessible that people of this world didn't bother searching for salt in other places like the sea for instance.

That could work for landlocked regions, but not the ones with much more closer access to sea.

 

[Seetee]

Thank you for the translation!

This manga is high quality! Believable MC and a charming supporting cast. I am thoroughly entertained!

 

[darkgunner]

I love this manga, so heart-warming. Thanks for the translation!!

 

[riflow]

I hate hate HATE it when isekai authors assume that everyone before the industrial age was stupid. Extracting salt from sea water is an ancient practice that was done practically everywhere with a coast because you literally just have to boil the water or leave it to dry in the sun. You can't possibly tell me that no one ever figured out that there was salt in sea water.

Don't other isekais usually focus on either filtration of salt or pepper also? It feels like the author for this series really didn't do much research, even superficial research, on this topic.

(NGL tho I'm not too surprised considering she opens the light novel up with stating Patience is ...not safe around little boys and that's why she's so obsessed with her new little brothers. (I have never refunded something so fast, that was in like the first 5 pages).

So the author has some strange ideas about what could make this series compelling or interesting at times.

I can only imagine the script writer & editor for this adaptation was like

What.

BC it thankfully has ZERO mention in the manga.)

 

[GreenDude1]

I guess I understand that part, but the issue was, well, it was salt. It was as vital as grain for humanity, if not much more.
If the country is landlocked completely in the middle of the continent with no cultural and economic exchange to other countries, it'd make sense.

But to the point of the absence of the knowledge of it, completely? How's the WN explaining about this? The only way I can imgaine is that somehow, there's a catastrophe horrible enough to simply reset almost the whole civilization, leaving some of the higher-medium class of society that barely knows the general know-how to start it all over again.

That, or aliens.

That could work for landlocked regions, but not the ones with much more closer access to sea.

I'm agreeing with you that it's really really stupid that they don't know about sea salt.