24 Years of Salt

[canyonwalker]

We've had the same box of salt in our kitchen for a long time. It finally ran out last week.



We don't use salt very much. Hawk is sensitive to the flavor and prefers not to use any at all. I use it sparingly myself. Especially this plain salt. For seasoning food, like a steak I'm not adding salt to via ingredients such as soy sauce in a marinade, I use pink sea salt. It has a richer, more rounded flavor. This plain salt I use only for salting water to boil pasta and in baking.

So, how old is this box we just finished? I looked for the expiry date to see....



Better yet, I found a manufacturing date. The salt we just finished was packaged in 1997. We owned this box of salt for almost 24 years.

"Maybe I'll buy a smaller box next," I thought, not wanting to pay for more salt than I may use in my lifetime. But at the store today I found this size is the cheapest. $0.99 for the store brand. Smaller packages are only for fancy salt, and they cost 4x as much for a fraction of the size.

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[khedron]

The other day I saw on twitter, something to the effect of: "How white is my background? My mother said I was using spices too quickly. SHE still had spices that had been given to her as wedding presents."