I do not recommend doing this.
Each time I washed it salt would recrystallize as it dried, so after 3 washes I decided to soak it in a lot of water which resolved that.
Then I went to use the salt and without any salt build up it poured out way quicker and ruined my breakfast.
21 Comments
redlemace@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 300d
Always with a new, modified,refilled or unknown shaker: pour some on your hand first. Always.
jared@mander.xyz · 19 pts · 300d
Didn't grandma tell you to put rice in the shaker?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 300d
What's this for?
rtxn@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 300d
It keeps the salt dry and prevents clumping up. The rice
absorbs moisture quickerbinds moisture more effectively than the salt.prettybunnys@piefed.social · 13 pts · 300d
Like putting a slice of bread in with your cookies.
redlemace@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 300d
What? How long do your cookies last? (We measure it in minutes at most)
toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 300d
This guy cookies
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 300d
Never tried that
I don't have issues with clumping, but I do salt boiling water so there was buildup around the holes.
I just washed it because the shaker top was looking gross.
wirelesswire@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 300d
The solution (heh) here is to pour some salt into a dish or your hand for salting the water, instead of exposing the shaker to steam.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 299d
Salty buildup around ones holes is never good.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 3 pts · 300d
Salt soaks up moisture much much quicker than rice. Rice just avoids clumping mechanically.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 300d
You season straight from the shaker? Gotta go through my palm first. The palm imparts flavor.
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 300d
Kosher salt + salt cellar = better salt distribution
Triumph@fedia.io · 10 pts · 300d
I do ours before Thanksgiving every year, little glass jars with shiny metal shaker tops. Yeah, they have to be super dry before refilling.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 300d
To my horror I looked again and it's covered in salt crystals again, so I guess it was not dry enough
Triumph@fedia.io · 9 pts · 300d
When I do mine, rather than soaking them until the salt dissolves, I'll put a bunch of elbow grease in with a damp paper towel. It's less washing and more polishing. Perhaps the limited moisture from the paper towel helps? The dry part of the paper towel helps remove moisture as I clean it?
SAY MOISTURE ONE MORE TIME.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 300d
The lid has plastic parts for a spout and you can't get into where the plastic and metal join or the hinge of the spout, that's where the salt send to have set up base.
Triumph@fedia.io · 6 pts · 300d
Ah … I think new shakers are in order then.
klemptor@startrek.website · 5 pts · 300d
Poke toothpicks into the holes, that'll dislodge the crystals.
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 300d
Sorry about your breakfast.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 300d
Thanks
It was a nicely cooked overeasy egg.