Salt shakers were invented in 1858 by John Mason, the guy who invented the screw-top Mason jar. He made little screw-top jars to keep salt in at the table and keep it from caking from the humidity.

Insert the wire into the shaker via a hole on the top. If there's a cork or plastic stopper at the base of the shaker, you ...

Q–My mother and my home economics teachers taught me that salt should be put into shakers with small holes, and finely ground pepper into shakers with larger holes. At a friend`s house recently I ...