DU! I need help! How many holes do salt & pepper shakers have?

[underpants]

No seriously I don’t know. I DO now know that there’s a salt & pepper shaker museum.


AI Overview
There isn't a universal standard for the number of holes in salt and pepper shakers, and the number can vary even within a set. Generally, salt shakers in the US tend to have fewer holes (1 or 2) while pepper shakers might have more (3). This is because people use more salt, and fewer holes on the salt shaker help with control.


The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum in Gatlinburg TN
Which Shaker has the most (or least) amount of holes - Salt or Pepper?
And the definitive answer is …
It depends!
The number of holes in salt and pepper shakers varies by culture, health and taste.

Here in the US excessive salt is considered bad for you, so the salt shaker is the one with the fewer holes, but in parts of Europe it’s the other way around.
https://thesaltandpeppershakermuseum.com/1question#:~:text=Even%20the%20blue%20and%20green,and%20the%20other%20one%20two!

The Cookist
Salt shakers typically feature three or more holes, while pepper shakers usually have one or two for a controlled sprinkle
https://www.cookist.com/which-shaker-usually-has-more-holes-the-salt-or-the-pepper-one/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. If the body of the shaker is opaque you ask the host. . . . nt

[marble falls]

2. Pepper shakers generally in the US have three larger because generally one uses less pepper. Larger holes are for ...

... coarser ground peppers.

[underpants]

3. That's what I said.

I forgot what my wife said.
I put pepper on everything…including hot dogs.
When I was in the Army 30+ years ago I read that you could ween yourself off salt if you just don’t add it to anything for week. I do add it to salads, and throw a bit over my shoulder.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Salt Is Taste Amplifier

Inadequate level of salt will make all food less flavorful than it should be.
It's one of the reasons people who need to cut salt due to hypertension find it so hard to do it. The food tastes blah. Potassium chloride (KCl) is a substitute but it is only moderately successful on replacing sodium chloride.

[Marthe48]

12. No matter how many holes

The ones in the pepper shaker are too small! At home, I use the store container, and use the slot on one side, not the shaker or the spoon entry.

In restaurants, if it's possible, I unscrew the lid.

Either way, I get all the pepper I want

I bought my neighbor's vintage S&P collection, have many newer sets I bought over the years. The number of holes varies. I think it depends on the size of the shakers, design preference, but not on standardization.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. There is no uniform, all salt shakers have x holes and all pepper shakers have y holes.

Depends on who made them.

Kind of like asking how high the clouds are.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. I'm Going With...

...more than one.

[Niagara]

7. Habanero idea (lol)

Pepper pun!

My grandmother was a salt and pepper shaker collector.


After my grandfather died, my grandmother decided she wanted to move out of the country and live in an independent senior apartment. Which means she had to downsize.

Anyway she offered me her salt and pepper shakers and since I wasn't a collector I only took two sets.

There's a holiday mice set with the mice wearing Christmas hats. Both shakers only have 2 holes.

The other set is Kelvins Treasures of killer whales. One has 2 holes (I assume the pepper) and the other has 3 holes ( I assume the salt).

So I guess it depends on the manufacturer.

[kimbutgar]

8. I collect salt and pepper shakers and in the USA the salt has 3 holes and pepper 2

But in Europe the salt only has two holes because they consider it an insult to salt food and the pepper has three holes. I learned this on a trip to Europe when I brought a some salt and pepper shakers there!

[UTUSN]

9. A tangential inquiry

It takes (a year or two? ) to run out of the salt cardboard container and replace it? And these containers have been the same (model? ) for my 78 years' lifetime.

So at this late date the new container looks the same but upon breaking it in, used the usual needle-nosed plier to bend back the tip of the spout and turns out that the spout is new-fangled, somehow less gripped into the cardboard opening, and the spout completely unhinged itself and fell into the container. Plus that in our New Times, seems like the product is less full while in the appearance of the same, larger containter.

So, always with the Depression-raised parents teaching Economy - in my Boomer usage meaning "saving" on insignificant things while splurging on bad habits - I proceeded to find some kind of container of the same volume with a lid with holes.

Yes, went to regular groceries places, and then to the Dollar places. Looking NOT for shakers, but rather for a full sized container with holes.

*(** The closest thing found was a glass, cylindrical thing fairly closely looking like the salt cardboard container. BUT, labeled as a *cheese* shaker (no idea) with the lid holes being extra large.

Still haven't transferred the salt from the cardboard to the glass. And I don't use the "normal" sized shakers, just shake the thing from the cardboard thing.

Leaving this here.

[Nittersing]

11. I wonder if the cheese shaker is for

that "Parmesan" cheese you can buy... that pre-shredded dried stuff?

I don't really use shakers anymore. The salt I put in a little dish and pinch it out as needed.

Pepper is whole and waiting in a grinder.

[pansypoo53219]

10. i use vintage shakers. 13 holes + the big one has 19. i also have a estate sale collection. then the open salts i have..

[AllaN01Bear]

13. i loved the friar ( priest ) salt and pepper shakers