What do you keep your salt in?

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I used to have a salt pig, but found that it got greasy sitting on the kitchen side and I'd usually end up chucking nearly the whole pig of salt away.

Now I have a tub of saxa in the cupboard and it's not very satisfying to have to ferret it out when I cook.

What is the elegant solution?

Nigella cream salt pig up away from hob but still grabbable. Saxa??????

Maldon, darling.

You can get salt pigs/boxes with a lid . this would keep it from getting greasy.
I use a pig BTW ,don't find my salt goes greasy though.

I have a Maldon Sea Salt ceramic pig.

I have a big box of Maldon on the side for cooking with. I trim the top of the box and the inner liner so that it sits neatly. It lives in a mini wooden tray with the pepper grinder, olive oil, vinegar, jar with whole cloves of garlic beside the cooker. The little tray keeps all the bottles etc in one place and any oily residue or escaping salt or pepper off the work tops. One of those stupid little things that makes life much tidier. I would add that I am slightly OCD so you might not need to take it that far!

I have mine in a spotty tin from Ikea but I expect any tin, spotty or not, would do.

Actually I have two spotty tins - one with table salt and one with Maldon

when we were little our salt (Maldon, because that was where we lived) was kept in a glass jar with a cork lid, and an invisible cow lived in it.

I wonder what on earth made my dad think of telling us that, I mean, a cow in the salt, wtf?

Wow! I've learned something today.

I was about to describe the thing we keep our salt in but then googled salt pig to see what you were on about and discovered that what we have is in fact a salt pig.

I never realised it had a name before.

Anyway ours is a huge green glazed pottery one that I bought from a charity shop years ago. Salt keeps fine in it despite being right next to the hob

Er, a salt cellar? Or am I missing something here?

I have a box of Maldon in a cupboard.

I spoon a few tea spoons of it into a little Victorian salt dish that sits on the kitchen table.

Once or twice a week it needs topping up and that's it.

Maldon salt it is, it seems :). In salt pigs. Preferably Nigella's salt pigs.

Well, unoriginally, I keep my (maldon) salt in a blue Nigella salt pig next to oven .

Ooooh, I think this is what I need.

I keep mine in an old dundee marmalade jar. Don't know how elegant that is. Now here's elegance....

Salt pig, next to the hob - I wash it every now and then and it seems fine.

It is right next to the kettle though, which provides for added fun when unsuspecting visitors put it in their tea.

A Jamie Oliver salt pig with Maldon salt. I hate JO but I love my pig!

A small granite pot that I bought may years ago in Egypt. I just don't tell people that I bought it as an ashtray , but I gave up smoking a long time ago, and it is the perfect size for a small amount of salt (Yes, Maldon!) out on the worktop. I can assure you it's been scrubbed thoroughly in the interim.