Salt & Pepper

[El Jefe]

do you keep your salt and pepper in clearly delineated containers, adhering to the tradition of pepper having more holes than salt?

Or do you use similar containers for both?

or something 'wacky' - a salt shaker shaped like the Empire State Building and a pepper shaker shaped like King Kong?

Or something else?


No poll for this one - too many exciting options to summarise in just 12 choices

 

[keithy]

i've got salt and pepper shakers shaped like cows that fit together... but... i just use grinders... i'm crap.

 

[Kanda]

I have ekectric grinders, they have a clear bit so I can see which is which.

Stops pesky people doing the good ol switcheroo

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Pepper shaker? Can't stand pre-powdered pepper.

 

[tarannau]

Kanda: too lazy to grind.

Electric grinders are strictly for Thora Hird types, or people with Beadle-like hand issues.

 

[dodgepot]

we have clear grinders.

when i was young my dad spent ages looking for a pair of ceramic breast salt'n'pepper shakers. he never found them. i thought about getting him some recently, but i don't know if my step-mum would be too pleased.

 

[tarannau]

I seem to have inherited/gained all sorts of pepper and salt containers over the years, a penalty of people knowing you cook.

We just tend to use the simple grinders now - the only downside being that they can get greasy in the kitchen

 

[Kanda]

Kanda: too lazy to grind.

Electric grinders are strictly for Thora Hird types, or people with Beadle-like hand issues.

Arthritic actually.

 

[tarannau]

Is there no end to your excuses my left handed Warcraft playing Elf friend?

Simply buy the normal grinders and ask your housemates to serve you as part of their normal duties.

 

[dilute micro]

I've got a pair of green marble shakers I never use. I either use mills or granules right out of the container.

 

[Kanda]

Is there no end to your excuses my left handed Warcraft playing Elf friend?

Simply buy the normal grinders and ask your housemates to serve you as part of their normal duties.

It's Everquest!! Not that silly kids game!!

 

[isitme]

hehehe

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Pepper grinder. I don't use salt.

Oh apart from last night when I spilt some red wine.

 

[Rollem]

when i was young my dad spent ages looking for a pair of ceramic breast salt'n'pepper shakers. he never found them. i thought about getting him some recently, but i don't know if my step-mum would be too pleased.

do it !

we have clear grinders too

 

[Idaho]

We have these super-duper metal salt and pepper grinders that we got as a wedding present.

 

[PacificOcean]

I have an electric pepper mill that sounds like it's in great pain when I use it.

Six bloody AAA battries too. I am only grinding pepper not powering Swindon.

 

[chico enrico]

Pepper shaker? Can't stand pre-powdered pepper.

exactly. people who have pre-powdered pepper are subhuman scum.

 

[jontz01]

Loose mixed peppercorns, crush and chop with a big knife... mmm pepper.

 

[etnea]

We have these (but in cream and teal):

but they don't get used at the moment because the humidity is too high here.
So they live in the fridge, in their own packaging.

 

[Stig]

I've got a steel and rubber yo-yo shaped pepper grinder which I love, and salt just comes out of whatever cardboard packaging it was bought in. There are a couple of little shakers here that came with the flat, that look like they were nicked from a greasy spoon, but we don't really use them much.

 

[idioteque]

I have a giant bottle of table salt, and a tiny pot of pepper that came in shaker form already (and is rank). Classy, I know.

 

[onenameshelley]

ours are boring steel ones, one hole for both of them, but as the salt has rice in it, it rattles

 

[Crispy]

salt comes out of the big plastic cylinder you buy it in.
pepper is crushed with the flat of a knife and chopped about a bit because there has been no long-lasting pepper mill manufactured since the one my parents got at their wedding 30 years ago.

 

[etnea]

Oooh I almost forgot, one of my students got us a wedding present of salt and pepper shakers, which are astonishing. Large, ornate ceramic swans. Sadly they got left behind in the move...I am actually quite gutted about that, they were the most extraordinary table furniture I've ever seen.

 

[Dillinger4]

We have these (but in cream and teal):

but they don't get used at the moment because the humidity is too high here.
So they live in the fridge, in their own packaging.

I really like those.

If the humidity is to high, put some grains of rice into the salt.

 

[sojourner]

I have a large tub of sea salt, and a ready-bought peppermill (I mean, it came with peppercorns already in it) that I just refill

Ace thread

 

[fractionMan]

and you said my cheese grating thread was dull

 

[Stig]

salt comes out of the big plastic cylinder you buy it in.
pepper is crushed with the flat of a knife and chopped about a bit because there has been no long-lasting pepper mill manufactured since the one my parents got at their wedding 30 years ago.

 

[Boycey]

lumps of rock salt and pepper corns and a pestle and mortar- nice and coarse

 

[sojourner]

and you said my cheese grating thread was dull

who, me?