I have realized that my stored salt, in it's cardboard boxes, is vulnerable to moisture. Glass is inert, but could break, and I don't have nearly enough to think about the 5-gallon bucket storage. I have other dry goods stored in cleaned-out juice bottles. Could salt be done that way too, or would it's corrosive properties do nasty things to the plastic - and the salt?

my salt is in 500g boxes so i just put the box in a vacuum packer bag and vacuum packed it. that way the salt is not in direct contact with the plastic.

Should be fine- we store it in a Nalgene at my folks.

Yeah, there are a lot of them around... they follow me home like strays....

salt... ? I'm totally missing the point of having salt, besides drying the heck out of something.

Me? I keep my salt in the blue cylinder canister that I bought it in. I think I've had the same one for like the last 4 years...

Salt is needed for life. And unless you live along a coast line, it isn't naturally occuring.

And turns into a solid salt lick it absorbs enough moisture. :P

Quite a bit of salt will fit into a well-washed plastic quart mayonnaise jar or peanut butter jar. It may need a replacement gasket, but that's doable.

Sue

Nalgene gets my vote for a good way to store it.

The whole thing is the seal. If it isn't air tight, and you are in any kind of a moist environment, your salt is toast. Rubbermade salt/pepper "plastic" shakers are not adversly effected by the salt itself, but they are not sealed well enough to prevent moisture from causing the salt to clump. This I know for a fact...

I know that some outdoor restaurants put uncooked rice with the salt in their salt shakers, see it more in the caribbean than the coasts of north america... could this be a viable solution for long term storage of salt?

Of course the other question is - so it becomes a salt block (thinking LONG term storage) - flake off, grind off, etc what you need when you need it