How do you use a salt shaker? It seems like a stupid question, the normal thing seems to be to shake it with your hand so that the salt falls out, it’s that simple. Badly done…
we all have a salt shaker at home, and we have learned to use it safely by watching our parents or older siblings, when we were little. And if it turns out that you’ve been using it wrong your whole life?
The salt shakers are small jars that, obviously, contain salt. It has a lid with holes at the top, to extract the precious seasoning. Most are made of glass, because they preserve salt better.
How is the salt shaker used? The fastest and most direct method that everyone uses is shake the salt shaker so that the grains of salt hollow out, and fall through the holes.
This system is valid, but it has some drawbacks. It can happen that let’s add more salt than necessary, when moving the salt shaker with blows. Or, even worse, let the lid come offand you end up with a mountain of salt on your plate, spoiling the food.
Does your salt shaker have stretch marks? Use them!
if you have a crystal salt shaker at home, you most likely have some striations at the base. The most logical thing is to think that they are placed so that the salt shaker does not slide down the table, or so that it does not slip when picking it up. But that is not its function.
The best thing is that you see it in this video, which is leaving many Twitter users speechless:
As you can see, when we turn the salt shaker over, the salt cakes, and it doesn’t come out. But instead of shaking it or tapping it, what you have to do is drag a fork across the ridges on the base of the salt shaker.
The vibration is transmitted through the glass, causing the salt to fall out of the salt shaker.. The best thing about this system is that it allows us to better control the amount of salt we add, since offers more precision.
Did you know the true use of the salt shaker grooves? Surely you’ve been adding salt wrong all your life, and you haven’t noticed. It’s happened to almost all of us…