A very serious question, concerning domestic economy afloat

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Have any of you chaps who go in for modern, high-tech style, sailing and cruising got the solution to one of the Mysteries of the Sea that has plagued my sailing career to date ?

Viz:

How to keep the salt dry, and easy to use, aboard?

All suggestions welcome!
 
Use Maldon Sea Salt- it's already "wet" and so keeps easily in a small plastic container. It doesn't need to get out through a hole as you just crumble and sprinkle it with your fingers. If your fingers are wet, it still works, you just get salty fingers. It also tastes nice. I also find a salt mill seems to work- the sea salt crystals stay pretty dry. You just need to tap the bottom of the mill before use.

The other answer is- you shouldn't be using salt , bad for health, work of the devil blah blah blah.
 
When not actually in use, keep your "using" salt cellar inside a plastic tub with an airtight lid (such as a vitamin container or a big pill container as thrown out in their hundreds by your local pharmacy) and keep some uncooked rice inside the plastic tub.

BTW I can't actually confirm that this works yet, it's just the latest strategy in my personal quest to find a solution to this weighty problem.
 
We find that rock salt and mill works fine too for on the table.

We also keep normal salt for cooking in one of the plastic containers with the lid you rotate to expose a hole for pouring the salt out of (ie the container such as you can buy salt in) and that seems to keep dry, the container being airtight. Fill it from salt bought packaged in plastic bags and they stay dry too as long as resealed.

John
 
The rock salt and mill theory

is what I have subscribed to for the last few years.

However, it has two drawbacks.

a) The salt does eventually start to deliquesce (is that the verb form from which the gerundive, deliquescent, is derived?)

b) A metal grinding assembly corrodes instantly, of course, so one buys a plastic one, but that does not stand up to hard usage.

I've tried the rice trick, with moderate sucess.

Anyone got contacts in airline or motorway catering? A few gross of those little plastic packs would be handy
 
Re: The rock salt and mill theory

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Anyone got contacts in airline or motorway catering? A few gross of those little plastic packs would be handy

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You can buy them at Booker or Makro.
 
Re: Ta . NM

A guy in the boatyard told me he disolves the salt in hot water. As much salt as can be disolved per unit of water. He then puts it in a plastic container and sprinkles the very salty water on his food he says it stops the salt clogging.
 
Blimey - thought everyone knew this one !!

Stick a few grains of rice in the salt cellar. You can also stick 'em in the source salt container to keep that as dry as possible after opening ....

It will never be perfect - salt is Hygroscopic by nature ....
 
yood die without it - use it wisely and yoo cood live forever

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aka put a few grains under yor tung, if itsnot taysted yoo need some - utherwize u dont
 
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