Storing salt on a boat

[Amulet]

Going for the prize for the most boring post ever. I have never found a satisfactory way of storing salt on my boat. Has anyone else? It always ends up damp on my boat.

 

[bigwow]

Put some rice in with it.

 

[sailorman]

Put some rice in with it.

+1

 

[Conachair]

And use a grinder not a shaker.

 

[maxi77]

And use a grinder not a shaker.

Concur always works for us, but only with a plastic grinder. Failing that the rice grains also works as far as I am aware

 

[VicS]

Going for the prize for the most boring post ever. I have never found a satisfactory way of storing salt on my boat. Has anyone else? It always ends up damp on my boat.

Why would anyone want to store salt on the boat?

 

[sailorman]

Why would anyone want to store salt on the boat?

dippy egg

 

[bigwow]

To put on your peanut butter on toast.

 

[philip_stevens]

'Twas on CSI last night - how to dry out a dunked mobile phone. Put it in a pot of rice.

Yes, we also have rice in our salt shakers.

 

[Vara]

I buy the little plastic containers of condiments with snap on lids available from French supermarkets. Dry as a bone.

 

[Poignard]

I buy the little plastic containers of condiments with snap on lids available from French supermarkets. Dry as a bone.

Yes - that works for us. (And fixing the coachroof leaks helped as well!)

 

[colvic987]

we use those sea salt and peppercorn grinders, and store them in an airtight clippy box.

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-8912.aspx

 

[Burnham Bob]

i always scrounge extra salt packets from McDonalds..........

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

dippy egg

No,no,no. That's what marmite is for.

 

[lustyd]

A bit of pasta apparently also works, although I borrow my supplies of comdiment and sauce from a well known pub chain. Whenever I go for a meal I get a couple of ketchup, salt, peppers etc and keep them all in a tupperware container.

 

[ocgrant]

10-15 grains of rice in the shaker has always worked great for us. Always dry as a bone. Learned this down in Mexico and never looked back.

 

[Modulation]

I buy the little plastic containers of condiments with snap on lids available from French supermarkets. Dry as a bone.

Same for me - even better than the rice grains. Just make sure they're fully closed.

 

[SHUG]

10-15 grains of rice in the shaker has always worked great for us. Always dry as a bone. Learned this down in Mexico and never looked back.

Total agreement. How often do you get that on a Forum?????

 

[Martin_J]

or if you want a more hi-tech solution.... I've had a salt and pepper shaker on board for at least the last two years.. We don't use much salt but the salt still comes out freely... The pepper has been refilled.

Search google for swiss spice humid proof

You will find them for about £12 and if you're in Southsea, the cook shop opposite Waitrose sells them. They're compact, hold salt and pepper and have a squidgy insert in the cap that keeps the seal good.

Edit - It looks the same as the ones on eBay for just over £12.

 

[Black Sheep]

I've tried the grains of rice trick. The result? Soggy grains of rice in my damp salt! Maybe my boat is too humid.

What does work well for me: many years ago, I bought some effervescent vitamin C tablets. These come in an aluminium tube, the top of which fits tightly, and contains silica gel. This has worked perfectly over the years and the salt flows freely. This looks like the same idea behind the Swiss device.

I'm grateful for the (in retrospect) stunningly obvious suggestion of a snap-on waterproof container - this might enable me to keep a pepper grinder working on board, which would be a first. Thinks... a snap-on waterproof container with a few bags of silica gel - that sounds like a solution!