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Yes, they come from the same mine in Pakistan. They process it into lamps, animal licks, rock salt, fine salt, etc from the same source.

Just clean the surface with a wet cloth to ensure there's no residual dust/debris and you can shave away. It probably won't yield even size grains, but you can use it for whatever you like.

it's more for a joke example though, much easier to just buy the salt.

That all being said, the ones from Pakistan are not usually coated in anything after raw production, so if its from an unknown source, you might want to check if the seller maybe added some spray on agent to protect the salt, although I really don't see any reason why they would do that.

EDIT: For everyone saying "not food grade", the only difference is that it wasn't quality tested for ingestion. That doesn't mean the salt isn't edible, it's just not tested for that purpose. The mined salt rocks are the same for everything, only difference is size to be sold to each factory. I checked and apparently some sellers do coat the lamps with a protective gel for shipping purposes, so you would want to wash that off first.

Be careful with the outer layers at least, they could be covered with a protective layer.

In my (relatively uninformed) opinion, mostly yes, but kinda no.

While a salt lamp is made of mined salt they're usually made of a lower grade of salt than the stuff that ends up for food use, so you'd probably end up with some unpleasant "dirt" flavors in the salt. However, more importantly most salt lamps I've seen have been varnished, since raw salt will absorb moisture from the air and melt into brine. So you'd also be consuming a lot of whatever they used to give the lamp a moisture proof coating and I don't know how food safe that is.

I wouldn't. While yes, it is technically salt, it isn't food grade. You could have a safe to eat lamp OR a lamp contaminated with toxins or heavy metals or radiation. And that's before whatever processes may have been done during manufacturing to turn it into a lamp. Not to mention if it's been sitting out it'll be covered in dirt and dust which is also not great in food (not dangerous, but not enjoyable either).

I'm sure it's possible, but take that with a grain of salt

I mean theoretically you can grind up whatever you like and season your food, at least once.

You definitely can but its not food-grade so perhaps take that into account.

I'm sorry everyone is advising against it. If you need a pink salt itch scratched they make big blocks of salt the size of cutting boards to season steak (or something I guess, I think it's a solution looking for a problem) but they are food grade so buy five of those, stack them into a cube (bottom face is the table) and put a flashlight inside the box and go to town!

Sure, as long as you avoid the bulb, but it is probably contaminated with a variety of heavy metals.

Yes. They’re also delicious to lick.

Only if you make a video of it and share it with us.

Try it, and report back. If you don't report back, we'll assume you're dead, and divide up your collection of POGs.

Follow up question: how does one process mined salt?

Yes

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Don’t eat your Salt Lamp, this is not food grade Salt

Could? I dunno: can you ? May? No, you nay not!

If you have no other options I'm sure it would be fine if you wash off the outer part just for safety. In reality I bet its cheaper to buy pink salt off the jungle site.

Couldn't you just lick it and find out?