the brine

Spoon a bit onto your plate and let the tortilla chips wander — through the crunch, the cream, the heat, the brine, the smoke.

In the late 1970s, with the lake approaching historic lows and the salinity increasing, activists began organizing protests on the shore, holding signs with slogans including “Rehydrate here” and “Save the brine shrimp.”

Make the Giardiniera Mayo: In a small bowl, mix together the mayonnaise, chopped giardiniera, and the brine.

Current supplied to the electrode in the water chamber splits water molecules, producing hydrogen gas and negatively charged hydroxide ions that attract positively charged lithium ions in the brine, drawing them through the membrane.

They place the briny chamber between two pure water chambers that each contain an electrode and are separated from the brine by a membrane.