My beloved one.

[same_sky]

I have an object in my household that I love more than I should. My favorite Christmas present this year was a sodium chloride containment unit--a salt cellar, if you will. I started cooking with kosher salt in preparation of owning this piece of art much more than because all the cooking shows harp on it. I longed to possess it. I was tremendously excited when I opened it at Christmas. Although I wasn't sure I'd be receiving it, I had hoped that it would be there, under the tree. If it hadn't been, though, I would have bought it as soon as the holiday was over. I simply really wanted to have this salt cellar. (Good Eats fans, of course I'm talking about the one Alton Brown has.)



I'm still very happy that I have it, I use it every time I cook, and it looks quite nice sitting by the stove. But I thought I had moved past the obsession with my sodium chloride containment unit. Last night, while M was cooking himself a lunch sandwich and doing dishes, I was sweeping the floor and cleaning the counters and putting things away. I noticed after a while, though, that I had been standing in one place for ten minutes, cleaning and polishing the stainless steel with a dishrag. And furthermore, once I had it gleaming like a dentist's tool set, I snarled at my poor totte when he accidentally touched it, leaving a fingerprint.

Is it normal to consider a sodium chloride containment unit part of the family?

Comments

Crazy smurfs

[totte.livejournal.com]

It's an unusual life I lead. I don't worry about other guys, but I fear one of these days one of the kitchen utensils might steal your affections. I guess I'll just have to supply you with some polishing products and hope you keep me around as a useful enabler.

Re: Crazy smurfs

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

*giggle* You're so cute. :)

[ekatedid.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of this unit before. Please tell me how it works.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Well, that's just the thing. It's a bowl that you put salt in, and then you flip the lid up and take a pinch of salt out. It's not like it's a hugely special item of any sort, except that I think it looks really cool. *giggle* Click on the picture and it'll take you to the site. It's a Good Eats (FoodTV television show starring Alton Brown) thing.

[paradisecowgirl.livejournal.com]

I have never heard of such a thing either -- but I'm glad I'm not the only one that hasn't. Please, put me out of my misery of curiousity! :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

*laugh* I didn't know I would inspire such curiousity! It's just a bowl with a stainless steel flippy lid, filled with salt. That's why it's so weird that I have this obsession with it. :) The picture is a link to the site. :)

[hlu.livejournal.com]

What is that stuff?

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

hehe.. What is what stuff? The "sodium chloride containment unit"? That would just be Alton Brown's silly way of saying "salt cellar". :) I called it that because that's what the box and the site calls it. Or the kosher salt? Salt that comes in flakes.

I didn't mean to be so vague! *giggle* *blush*

[hlu.livejournal.com]

*giggles* What is a salt cellar? Is it just a glass container that holds salt?

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Yep. *giggle* Or at least this one is! I guess they don't all have to be glass.. :)

[ozswede.livejournal.com]

Well, I think it has real personality. And yes, some appliances do have personality! I know I got rather attached to my manual coffee grinder, which I even named. I think it's quite healthy and that if your dh touches it again, you should consider showing him the business end of a broom!

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if this should reassure you, but I was somehow certain that you'd understand. :)

I think M will be a little more careful about touching it in future. *giggle*