I totally understand sealing salt against humidity; here in the South it’s a must. (It’s also why you’ll occasionally find uncooked rice in salt shakers; the rice keeps the salt from clumping up.) However… trying to “raise spout” through this sticker took fingernails, a knife, and a kitten.đ¤Śââď¸
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Was the kitten the deciding factor?! Humidity is the enemy. Some very pretty little crystal salt cellars were passed down through my mom’s southern family. When it gets humid, or if I’ve got the fancy table set, I break those out. It beats rice in the shakers or pounding on the shakers (or both).
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The kitten seemed to think her help was essential; I found it to be more of a hindrance, LOL. Most restaurants around here have switched to the salt grinders which don’t clump. (I typically use them at home too.) I was surprised to come across rice in a salt shaker not long ago. It didn’t help though, I still had to pound on it. I’ve never actually seen a salt cellar in use; they seem so fancy!
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Good concept to save the salt, bad idea to put the sticker on it to close it. Like maybe someone didn’t think this through?
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Exactly! As I so often do, I was fussing at an inanimate object. “I would love to raise the spout to open it, but it’s not strong enough to punch through this bloody sticker!”
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Almost as bad as the clam shell packaging – I absolutely hate that. Even a camera card is buried under lots of plastic. How did the kitten help?
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She “helped” by getting between me and the salt and swatting at the knife.
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Ahh – I was thinking she used one of her claws to pry it open!
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I hate that spout, too. You’d think after all these years they’d try out an easier design!
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Right? Or at least a thinner sticker.
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