Salt Clumping?

Ever buy a bucket of salt only to have it harden? Mine has hardened so much that I actually had to get a chisel out. I figured out a way to keep this from happening and to reverse what I have now. Rice, yep, dried, uncooked rice. You put it into a salt shaker, right, to keep it from clumping? I put about a cup into a ziplock bag and poked holes in it. Then I threw the whole bag into the bucket and closed the lid and it's making the salt back to the way it was before the moisture. Hope it helps you too!

 

Never heard of that one before but if it works, I will be sure to employ that trick!
Thanks!

 

LOL Its a southern thing I have told a few people up there the same thing about their table salt Seems the humidity up north here is never so bad as to cause thatclumping problem with the table salt

 

Tangster, not sure if it's a southern thing , I'm from NJ orig. and we've done it for years. I told my Mother in law who is 100% southern and she didn't know about it. Doesn't everyone put a few pieces of rice in their salt shakers?? Maybe it's just me LOL I know it works though... I've had my bag in over night and though it's not broken down yet, the salt is easier to scrape off.

 

I'd guess if near water or ocean its needed All my family did it .. and it was a lot more then a few grains like out a 1/4 of the shakers was rice if they did not do it the salt as you know fused up like a rock I was at a restaurant once in Evergreen Alabama eating and a few people on the way to the coast for some gaming Asked the waitress for some new salt was someone had put rice in the shaker LOL The lady ohh sucks Honey we did thaaaat just so y'all could get it out.. They insisted on new salt LOL From up in this neck of the woods from their accents

I know up here there is none in the shakers and the salt works fine ..But I have yet to see it very hot or humid either..

 

My mother always put rice in the salt shakers too...I just haven't gotten around to doing the same in ours

 

Its never clumpy! hell even the tank salt does not clump and its next to the barrel for Toms water

 

I should put some in the shakers in the sun room though

 

Just the term Sun keeps me from out there I Me likie A/Ceee ;D Oh did I mention the two damn squawking feather bags

 

They are not bags of feathers....they are my pet birds!