I don't know about you, but we always seem to have too many Salt and Pepper dispensers on the table.
We have stainless steel electric ones that are not very reliable, shop bought see-through plastic containers with good quality contents that come in their own simple mills, a combined salt-n-pepper mill that works well, and best of all a French antique glass two-bay dispenser that is used by finger-pinching the amount needed (in foreground below).
Someone once said that my preferred French glass twin containers are not very hygienic. That may be so, but the user-friendly advantages far out-way any risk to health. Anyway, we do tend to wash our hands before eating.
I have several other versions of the glass container. I have various English examples including a pair of classic Chippendale cellars, as well as more simple Victorian cut-glass pots.
I had a friend who never went anywhere without his small antique pepper grinder. It was a nice little object, trimmed with silver, that he kept in his pocket at all times. He hated the idea of poor quality pepper! I know how he felt.
I shall continue to use my French glass containers. As far as I'm concerned they are perfect; and don't tell me otherwise!
I am hard pushed to come up with something meaningful in reply to your post.
ReplyDeleteWhy would anyone have so many pepper/salt grinders - particularly whilst living in a "bijoux" abode?
Cellars? Yes, salt is fine - up to a point. Pepper should be freshly ground on an as and when needed basis not sit there, open, for days/weeks on end. As to hygiene: In the olden days, those salt cellars came with teensy weensy silver spoons - no fingertips in the bowl.
Well, that was "fun".
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We have a pukka grinder for peppercorns, the other is a bit more finely ground. I think our French cellars are a bit too small for even the smallest of spoons. In France we have a small wooden bowl for Sea Salt, and that comes with a small wooden spoon!
DeleteThe open glass dishes would not be advisable here. There is a certain member of our household who seems to have an aversion to hand washing and refuses to be told otherwise.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a gardener with soil under his nails. He'd have to have his own private S & P cellars.
DeleteSalt jars of this nature normally have a small salt spoon with them. I am imagining that yours was just of the signt in the photograph.
ReplyDeleteNo, we use the in the French way; pinched with fingers. I do have some tiny spoons!
DeleteI still use my parents cruet set with the small silver spoon in the salt jar.
DeleteMy tiny salt spoons aren't actual silver and they've gone a bit nasty. I must try to find some decent ones.
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