I just keep mine in a small glass prep bowl. This is cute, though.

Hilarious... when I read this post, there was an ad for Neti pot on the same page!

Do NOT confuse the two! :)

I love accidental humor.

I picked up a Bamboo Salt Box from Sur la Table after returning some wedding gifts. It's worked great for a while. Gives me easy access to the salt and keeps it covered. Living in a high humidity environment makes it a little more clumpy than I like, but it's no better than leaving it in a shaker.

Can something like this be used for sugar? I've moved to a humid climate and my sugar clumps in the standard sugar bowl.

Don't forget about doing a search for "salt pig" or "salt cellar" on Etsy!

At $30-40, I thought these were a bit much. A helpful guy at Williams Sonoma pointed me to Sur la Table, where I got a ceramic mini Le Creuset that I keep mine in by the stove - I think it was $20? And admittedly, the lid makes me feel better because I know without one tomato sauce or something would go flying into my tub of salt.

I use Trader Joe's sea salt. I like that it's cheap, but they don't use an anti-caking agent so getting salt out of the tall cylindrical container through small holes was a hassle. I took the top out and then poured a lot of it into a cute tin I had. Infinitely better than a shaker.

I keep my kosher salt in a pig, but it's a bright orange pig shaped sugar bowl from Target a few years bag. I laugh every time I use it because I think of it as a salt pig, not to be confused with assault pig.

Hmm. My only concern with this would be the opening. 1, my cats might decide its a big salt lick, and 2, the Florida humidity wouldn't go well with it I'd think.

Does anyone use these in a humid environment? Curious if it would work here.

We have kosher salt in an open dish on the counter in Florida with humidity inside that often hits 60% - and no caking problems.

londonrml,
I would personally not advise using a salt pig for sugar, as I'd be afraid of an ant invasion.

I use a lidded, clear glass sugar bowl. It's with the pepper and sea salt grinders next to the stove, so no one gets it confused with sugar (plus there are a few grains of dry rice in there to keep it from clumping, which makes it obviously not sugar).

Rare Device carries a great salt box with a wooden lid for $22.

I live in South Florida and my salt doesn't cake in it.

I got one for Christmas from the hubby - it's the pink one with the ears and curly tail and I love it!

And it's all thanks to thekitchn. Reading all the posts, comments and good advice over the past year has given me a new appreciation for cooking and all the gadgets that make it more fun.

I too live in a humid climate (southeastern Louisiana) and I don't have any caking troubles either.

Mine is from the King Arthur Flour catalog.

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/items/salt-piglet-blue

I'm also afraid my cats would use it as a salt lick! There is nothing they won't sniff and sample. Sure is cute, though!

I've been wanting a salt pig or the like for a while now. I fear of using an open bowl because of dust or splatters, and a sugar bowl might confuse guests. I love the ceramic ones with hinged lids.

i also use the mini le creuset w/lid for my salt! Same idea, but I love the carribean blue color the mini comes in.

I have a mini-tagine that I keep near the stove with kosher/sea salt in it. It is hardly air tight but the salt never clumps and we get really humid here in the south.

I have a Nigella salt pig, which I love. She's made the opening larger since I bought mine... and they now come in 2 or 3 colours: blue, black or white/cream. Very pretty.

Never had a problem with it clumping or splatters... only use it for Maldon salt.

The dust is my biggest concern. I know the two hairballs I live with and don't trust anything that doesn't have a lid or cover.

I use these for salt and sugar (we have a humidity issue, too): http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60112660

Hmmph. The Williams-Sonoma one is no longer available.:(

I love my salt cellar! I've used one for a few years now, I've never had a moisture or clumping problem and my apartment has a horrible moisture problem. I have an RSVP salt cellar (like the one Alton Brown uses) with a lid and have never had a problem with it getting dust in it.

Sorry, don't know why it linked back here...

This is the RSVP salt cellar I am talking about.

I love my salt pig!

i've been debating on a covered or uncovered vessel for easy salting. i currently have all my spices in a drawer next to the stove and one of them is salt (kosher in a large holed shaker) and that works great. plus i can salt with "dirty" hands and not get chunks or other things in the salt-just wipe off shaker.