Today someone requested a tip for keeping salt and pepper shakers and sugar flowing. Put some rice in the shakers and it will keep the salt and pepper and sugar flowing. I do it and it works.
By Raymonde from North Bay, Ontario
Rice is great for salt and pepper but use a soda cracker in your sugar. That is what we did in our cafe. (09/25/2008)
By rosemarie
I had forgotten all about this tip! When I was in my early 20's I worked at a restaurant on a lake serving Sunday brunch for extra money. The restaurant did this because of the moisture from the lake water in the air. Anyway, one morning a woman called me to her table and loudly and indignantly scolded me for maggots in the salt :-o I wanted to die of embarrassment! I was trying to explain it was rice but couldn't get a word in during her rant. God Bless the older gentleman at a table next to her who got her attention, opened the lid on his salt, dumped some out on the table and put a few pieces of rice in his mouth! LOL! (09/25/2008)
By Deeli
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Is there no particular kind of salt shaker ( Wooden, Glass, Plastic or Metal) in which I can store salt to prevent it from absorbing moisture.
I always believed that if i stored salt in a Wooden Salt Shaker compared to a plastic Salt shaker my Salt would be in a better condition, is this belief wrong?
What is the best material for a Salt Shaker - Wooden, Glass, Ceramic, Plastic or Metal.
Thank you.
There's two ways I use for de-clumping salt and spices and etc. First..I save the little round barrel-shaped (not the flat ones that come in a paper-style envelope) de-humidifiers that come in vitamins or prescriptions and put them in with whatever I want to keep from clumping together. I figure that if they are safe for vitamins and whatever, they are safe for the salt. Second...I put in one or two - depending on the size of the bottle - round oyster crackers. They last as long as the spices do and everything stays nice and free-flowing!
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