What's on your christmas list?????

[slavetoabunny]

SnowyShiloh wrote:

I don't get in state tuition so it's really expensive.

This is OT - but I'm curious. Why did you go up to Alaska for college?

 

[pinksalamander]

I've just been shopping and I'm so proud of myself I only spent like £3 on myself (on a pair of really nice leather shoes! £3!!!)

I bought some Christmas presents today and sussed out what to get. I got my friend a set of eyeshadows from Body Shop, my other friend a book of Oscar Wilde quotes, and my friend Alan Carr's autobiography.

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[MissBinky]

This is gonna sound stupid but here goes...

The only thing I want, the one sincere thing I want, is to feel and know that I am loved. I know I am logically, but I don't feel it. That's what I want.

That's it.

 

[Becca]

Sophie, it's not stupid, not at all!!!

It's a great thing to want, I just hope you get it [HUG]

 

[Becca]

BUMP

 

[mouse_chalk]

*responds to bump*

I am pretty sure that my mum and dad are getting me the watch I want.... bless them! I had to swiftly divert my mum from getting me a new microwave shock because she thought for some random reason I wanted one lol..... She is also hunting for a salt pig that I want! This one:

:biggrin2:

 

[BethM]

Jen, I hope you get your salt pig! I bought myself one this past spring and I love it! I got the Nigella Lawson one, it looks like a big black egg on my counter. I put kosher salt in it, and it's so wonderful for adding salt while I'm cooking. I use a teaspoon (with a black handle to match) measure as a scoop, so it's really convenient, but also the opening is big enough I can just reach in and grab a pinch if I need to. I don't know anyone around here who has one or even knows what one is, and that's their loss, I think.

Salt pigs are awesome!!!

 

[mouse_chalk]

BethM wrote:

Jen, I hope you get your salt pig! I bought myself one this past spring and I love it! I got the Nigella Lawson one, it looks like a big black egg on my counter. I put kosher salt in it, and it's so wonderful for adding salt while I'm cooking. I use a teaspoon (with a black handle to match) measure as a scoop, so it's really convenient, but also the opening is big enough I can just reach in and grab a pinch if I need to. I don't know anyone around here who has one or even knows what one is, and that's their loss, I think.

Salt pigs are awesome!!!

YES! Finally someone who hasn't thought I'm a complete looney and asked me what on earth I'm on about!! I've seen the Nigella Lawson ones, I do quite like them, but I own nothing made by Le Creuset, and I love it lol, just can't afford it.... so that will be my one Le Creuset piece Although I'll be happy with any make.... I use sea salt all the time in cooking, and it's a pain in the bum to have to reach into the box every time to get it, plus it looks ugly having a box on my kitchen side lol.... I've been wanting one for aaages but sort of found it hard to justify the expense of one lol... It'll be such a great present!

*Ok Jen, calm down!*

 

[Sabine]

How does the salt stay dry in those things. Would the kitchen steam not make it all damp?

 

[mouse_chalk]

Sabine wrote:

How does the salt stay dry in those things. Would the kitchen steam not make it all damp?

Supposedly, they are constructed in such a way that they allow easy access to the salt, but keeping it dry from steam etc and protected from vapours! Genius huh? I've never used one before, but I've heard great things about them.... and it would look SO good on my kitchen worktop lol!

 

[LadyBug]

Sabine wrote:

How does the salt stay dry in those things. Would the kitchen steam not make it all damp?

i'm wondering about that and dust

 

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LadyBug wrote:

Sabine wrote:

How does the salt stay dry in those things. Would the kitchen steam not make it all damp?

i'm wondering about that and dust

It doesn't last long enough in my kitchen to gather dust lol! I use it a lot in cooking, but I've noticed that my overally consumption of salt has reduced a lot, by seasoning things as I cook them, I need less, therefore eat less!

 

[slavetoabunny]

I give. Why do they call it a pig. It doesn't look anything like a pig.

 

[Sabine]

slavetoabunny wrote:

I give. Why do they call it a pig. It doesn't look anything like a pig.

I remember when I was a child we used to have a salt cellar in the shape of a pig. But why that one is called a pig beats me

 

[mouse_chalk]

slavetoabunny wrote:

I give. Why do they call it a pig. It doesn't look anything like a pig.

I *think* because of the shape of the opening on them is the shape of a pig's nose? Don't quote me on that though!!

 

[BethM]

This is what my salt pig looks like:

The shape of the top keeps dust out, and I have never had the salt clump up in it from moisture, even though I use salt without non-clumping agents and it gets pretty humid here in the summer. This photo makes it look like the opening is up, but it's really more facing the front. When I spray the kitchen counter down to clean, I either just move the salt pig, or I'll turn it towards the wall while I spray, then just turn it back around when I'm done cleaning.

I recently discovered a fabulous kitchen store that sells a few different salt pigs, but I love mine. I like the egg shape, and I love that it's black. It might have been nice if it came in red, so I could match my butter bell (the single red thing in my kitchen!).

Edit: I think the ones with the shape like the one Jen wants are probably really good about keeping dust and stuff out, even more so than "the egg."