I bought a big thing of salt at Trader Joe's

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Anonymous wrote:FYI, OP. You might want to put uncooked rice in the salt shaker to keep it from clumping due to moisture.

You are making it way too hard.
Does it have to be Basmati rice? Is it OK to use non-organic kind?

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Anonymous wrote:It amazes me how nobody knows anything these days.

I was just thinking that if OP can't figure this out how hard her life must be. But now I'm thinking this is just someone who is bored and trying to see how gullible people are.

I can figure it out by going to Bed Bath & Beyond and looking around and maybe asking someone who works there. The closed-mindedness on this board sometimes boggles me. Not everyone grows up the same way - not everyone buys the same things, goes through the same experiences. If there's nothing to know about salt shakers and I should buy whichever one pleases my eye, just tell me that. No need to be an ass and imply I'm stupid.

C'mon OP! You're asking about salt shakers. This isn't exactly some sort of cultural issue or some sort of commentary on how people grow up. It's pretty shocking that an adult cannot figure out how to get salt out of container and on to their food.

I grew up not using salt. Again, I CAN figure out how to get it out of the container. It's just even the holes for sprinkling rather than pouring are too big so always get too much. I just found out from this thread that salt shakers are sold with pepper shakers - I didn't know that.

I am glad I could help!

I'm the first PP, and I thought OP would come back on to tell me not to be such a smart ass with my salt shaker comment!

Reminds me of the time my coworker complained that he hated white broccoli, and his mind was absolutely blown when I told him it was cauliflower. He had no idea what it looked like (he was American). You never know what people haven't been exposed to!

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Anonymous wrote:It amazes me how nobody knows anything these days.

I was just thinking that if OP can't figure this out how hard her life must be. But now I'm thinking this is just someone who is bored and trying to see how gullible people are.

I can figure it out by going to Bed Bath & Beyond and looking around and maybe asking someone who works there. The closed-mindedness on this board sometimes boggles me. Not everyone grows up the same way - not everyone buys the same things, goes through the same experiences. If there's nothing to know about salt shakers and I should buy whichever one pleases my eye, just tell me that. No need to be an ass and imply I'm stupid.

C'mon OP! You're asking about salt shakers. This isn't exactly some sort of cultural issue or some sort of commentary on how people grow up. It's pretty shocking that an adult cannot figure out how to get salt out of container and on to their food.

I grew up not using salt. Again, I CAN figure out how to get it out of the container. It's just even the holes for sprinkling rather than pouring are too big so always get too much. I just found out from this thread that salt shakers are sold with pepper shakers - I didn't know that.

This just keeps getting funnier and funnier. OP, I love you.

If you like this, then you'll love knowing I don't own a can opener either. Apparently I'm the gift that just keeps giving without even realizing it. You're welcome.

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Get a salt cellar - take a pinch at a time.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, you have just given me another thing on my list to educate my children on. I assumed everyone knew about the intricacies of salt shakers, but I guess I need to sit them down before they leave for college.

Make sure you tell them about butter dishes too.

Not everyone has the same life experiences! Maybe the kids never ate butter in their lives!

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Anonymous wrote:FYI, OP. You might want to put uncooked rice in the salt shaker to keep it from clumping due to moisture.

You are making it way too hard.
Does it have to be Basmati rice? Is it OK to use non-organic kind?

Yes, any uncooked rice is fine.

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Anonymous wrote:FYI, OP. You might want to put uncooked rice in the salt shaker to keep it from clumping due to moisture.

You are making it way too hard.
Does it have to be Basmati rice? Is it OK to use non-organic kind?

Arsenic! White carbs!

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Anonymous wrote:FYI, OP. You might want to put uncooked rice in the salt shaker to keep it from clumping due to moisture.

You are making it way too hard.
Does it have to be Basmati rice? Is it OK to use non-organic kind?

Yes, any uncooked rice is fine.

That was a sarcastic post, but thank you anyway

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Anonymous wrote:It amazes me how nobody knows anything these days.

I was just thinking that if OP can't figure this out how hard her life must be. But now I'm thinking this is just someone who is bored and trying to see how gullible people are.

I can figure it out by going to Bed Bath & Beyond and looking around and maybe asking someone who works there. The closed-mindedness on this board sometimes boggles me. Not everyone grows up the same way - not everyone buys the same things, goes through the same experiences. If there's nothing to know about salt shakers and I should buy whichever one pleases my eye, just tell me that. No need to be an ass and imply I'm stupid.

C'mon OP! You're asking about salt shakers. This isn't exactly some sort of cultural issue or some sort of commentary on how people grow up. It's pretty shocking that an adult cannot figure out how to get salt out of container and on to their food.

I grew up not using salt. Again, I CAN figure out how to get it out of the container. It's just even the holes for sprinkling rather than pouring are too big so always get too much. I just found out from this thread that salt shakers are sold with pepper shakers - I didn't know that.

This just keeps getting funnier and funnier. OP, I love you.

If you like this, then you'll love knowing I don't own a can opener either. Apparently I'm the gift that just keeps giving without even realizing it. You're welcome.

If you have lived this long without salt, there is no reason to start now. Salt isn't good for you anyway. Return the salt to TJs and go on your merry way.

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I am curious, not in a bitchy way but more of an ethnographer way, how/where OP grew up not eating salt.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, you have just given me another thing on my list to educate my children on. I assumed everyone knew about the intricacies of salt shakers, but I guess I need to sit them down before they leave for college.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, you have just given me another thing on my list to educate my children on. I assumed everyone knew about the intricacies of salt shakers, but I guess I need to sit them down before they leave for college.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, you have just given me another thing on my list to educate my children on. I assumed everyone knew about the intricacies of salt shakers, but I guess I need to sit them down before they leave for college.

Make sure you tell them about butter dishes too.

Not everyone has the same life experiences! Maybe the kids never ate butter in their lives!

NP. We use a butter bell instead of a butter dish. My child is so deprived.

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Anonymous wrote:I am curious, not in a bitchy way but more of an ethnographer way, how/where OP grew up not eating salt.

NY. I also never knew how to cook vegetables except from a frozen box then dumped into a Corningware in a microwave oven. I thought vegetables always had to be mushy and limp until I moved out and found out about properly steaming, and roasting.

I think once a year when my mom made soup she'd put salt in it, but we didn't keep salt & pepper on the table.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, you have just given me another thing on my list to educate my children on. I assumed everyone knew about the intricacies of salt shakers, but I guess I need to sit them down before they leave for college.

Make sure you tell them about butter dishes too.

Not everyone has the same life experiences! Maybe the kids never ate butter in their lives!

But everyone has at least seen a salt shaker somewhere, sometime! Come on!