Salt & Pepper Shakers - Which One With Bigger Holes

[Nifty-Chicken]

Okay, this is a constant debate at every dinner table (well, at least when I'm there

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You have TWO shakers that are identical in EVERY WAY except for the size of the holes. Which goes into the shaker with bigger holes, the salt or the pepper.

You must reply with an answer and WHY you selected the smaller / larger holes.

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

The Salt goes in the shaker with the larger holes (or more holes) because we use more Salt than Pepper and a little Pepper goes a long way...

 

[debilorrah]

Pepper has the bigger holes because pepper is denser and won't come of the little holes. If you put salt in the one with the bigger holes it will pour out all over your food. while your taste buds may love it your heart will not.





I can't believe I am answering this.

ETA: If it is the difference between 2 holes or three holes, salt goe sin the three holes.

 

[conny63malies]

We have salt in both nobody in our house uses extra pepper only hotsauce.Wikipedia on shakers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_and_pepper_shakers

 

[menageriemama]

I would like my pepper in the shaker with the larger holes because I like the coarsely cracked stuff- not the powder. That said- my salt shaker would also need larger holes than normal because I like kosher salt.

 

[redhen]

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what she said....

 

[gypsy2621]

salt in both and use a pepper grinder, saves debate.

 

[ninjapoodles]

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That is the way I was always taught, because over-peppering a dish can ruin it faster, for more palates, than over-salting. And if you notice, in S&P sets that are labeled as such, you'll see that even when the holes are all the same size, the salt-shaker will have more holes.

Or you could do the only truly proper thing, and get a peppermill and use fresh whole peppercorns.

ETA: I do not put salt-shakers on my dinner table. Pepper may be personal, but by golly, as far as salt is concerned, I've seasoned it perfectly by the time you're eating it.

 

[English Chick]

I use coarse sea salt and peppercorns in salt & pepper grinders...

 

[Queen Scoot]

pepper goes in the one with the bigger holes beacuse if ya put the salt in the one with bigger holes you'll over salt your food.