On 8/16/2011 1:28 PM, Kent wrote:
> "Tom Del > wrote in message
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>> Is there a trick to keep salt dry? With all the changes in weather there
>> are often water drops all over the holes in the salt containers. It seems
>> to happen more to the kosher salt.
>>
>> Maybe rice would absorb moisture, but the holes are big enough to let the
>> rice out (big salt crystals). And rice would get saturated and need
>> replacement.
>>
>> I could keep it in the fridge if that works.
>>
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> We have the same problem in our pantry, which is slightly more humid than
> the rest of our home. I experimented about and found the driest place in the
> kitchen to store the Kosher salt where it wouldn't crystallize.
> Interestingly, the non Kosher salt doesn't have the problem.
>

I don't have that problem since I even need a *humidifier* in the
heating season and the AC keeps the house fairly dry at other times. At
the beach, salt was kept with some rice in the shakers and that seemed
to do the job. I'd never heard of the popcorn trick but it might well
work for kosher salt.


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James Silverton, Potomac

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