No. Unfortunately, in any salt cellar the salt is open to the air, so it is not an effective vessel for keeping the air out, and thus not an effective vessel for keeping moisture out.
A salt cellar is a piece of servingware that dates back to when the salt on your table was always going to be much larger, around the size of chunky sea salt or an extra large flake finishing salt. The few hours it would be out on a salt cellar for your kingly feast wouldn't matter, and leftover chunks would be stored in an airtight pottery crock. The majority of the salt in your home would be in block form, stored usually in a barrel or larger crock. The salt would then be chipped or grated off of the block and placed into the salt cellar for serving.
Tl;Dr a salt cellar is servingware like a platter or large bowl to be used for a few hours at a time, not storageware to hold your salt for weeks or months. If you want to store your salt and are in a place humid enough to worry about moisture, get an airtight container like a mason jar and put a few grains of rice in the bottom.
Mine has a little flip-up lid with a rubber gasket, I definitely wouldn't want one that's just open because it'd collect dust and cat hair
FYI you can buy those food grade silica dessicant packets on bozos they are really handy, a few go a long way
if it's open then moisture will be absorbed no? It's dependent on ambient relative humidity so for my house it hovers between 50% and 70% inside because of the AC. If you have high humidity then you could use something like this
I use an open jar for salt and the moisture level isn't the problem, it's dust bunnies and hair and dead fruit flies.
do you leave it near your stove, where it might be exposed to steam from something cooking?
Of course! And dip my greasy and slimy finger directly in the salt while cooking.
I just use one of the wooden ones with a lid and it's fine. I wouldn't want an open-air one.
The lid on mine isn't air tight or gasketed. I use one like this
No idea, but for years I've kept my salt in a little lidded ceramic pot that was formally the packaging for some mid-grade blue cheese and it hasn't let me down yet
I saw a youtube chef a while back advocate for a weird open salt pot that looked like the clay had dropped to one side before firing
All I could think was how is this better than the plastic bottle of salt I have with a closable spout
I mean, if you really need to grab a handful of salt so you can saltbae, why not just put your salt in a tupperware with a lid, or an old coffee can or something
