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.
Always with a new, modified,refilled or unknown shaker: pour some on your hand first. Always.
You season straight from the shaker? Gotta go through my palm first. The palm imparts flavor.
Didn’t grandma tell you to put rice in the shaker?
What’s this for?
It keeps the salt dry and prevents clumping up. The rice
absorbs moisture quickerbinds moisture more effectively than the salt.Like putting a slice of bread in with your cookies.
What? How long do your cookies last? (We measure it in minutes at most)
This guy cookies
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.
Salty buildup around ones holes is never good.
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.
Salt soaks up moisture much much quicker than rice. Rice just avoids clumping mechanically.
Kosher salt + salt cellar = better salt distribution
Sorry about your breakfast.
Thanks
It was a nicely cooked overeasy egg.
I do ours before Thanksgiving every year, little glass jars with shiny metal shaker tops. Yeah, they have to be super dry before refilling.
To my horror I looked again and it’s covered in salt crystals again, so I guess it was not dry enough
Poke toothpicks into the holes, that’ll dislodge the crystals.
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.
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.
Ah … I think new shakers are in order then.
