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.

[ekatedid.livejournal.com]

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

[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! :)

[hlu.livejournal.com]

What is that stuff?

[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!