Why does the pepper run out faster than the salt?

There are many more grains of salt than chunks of paper for a given volume. Salt is finely grained.

Consider the paper to be small pebbles; and the salt to be sand. Take two pint containers, fill one with pebbles (pepper) and fill the other with sand (salt). Tilt each container and give a shake; a greater volume of pebbles than of sand will fall out.

Pepperpetual motion?

@ucme I think you mean peppertual motion, and that pepperpetual motion was the theory that pepper never runs out, which was confirmed by independent studies which turned out to all have been done by Scandinavians who hardly ever used pepper.

Can’t say that I’ve noticed. I use pepper more often than salt, which isn’t all that often at all. Now Cajun seasoning, on the other hand…

@Zaku You sound pepperplexed

Not at our house, my friend (OK, I modified the salt-shaker holes using a 3/16” drill bit, so, yeah….that’s an anomaly….)

And yes, I know I’ll be dead long before almost everyone else…..but MY popcorn will ALWAYS be more wonderful than yours….

That never happens around here. Maybe your diet is salt deprived. EAT MORE SALT!!! My salt shaker goes empty about 6 times faster than the pepper. (And pepper will aggravate your hemorrhoids, if you have them, so lay off the pepper.)

Not in my house. Lol.

Seriously, probably thecsalt weighs more than the pepper. The salt is finer. Actually, some brands of salt are finer than others and you have to adjust for it in recipes.

@JLeslie Adjust for salt in recipes due to one type of salt being finer than another? I don’t know about that. I’d wager that, for example, if you have a garbage can full of baseballs, and another full of marbles, the total empty space in both cans would be the same.

@kritiper I found this about kosher salt. I would assume table salt has less variance between brands.

I never measure salt so it doesn’t really effect my cooking in any way.

The reason I looked into the once is because a man gave a talk about foods that were good and bad for you (it wasn’t about salt) and the talk overall sounded like bullshit to me. Afterwards, I talked to a woman who believed a lot of what this guy said, and then she told me she was told by someone to only use Diamond salt, because it had less sodium. I told her that doesn’t make sense to me, sodium is sodium, maybe it’s the size of the crystal. Anyway, I googled afterwards and found there is some differences, and it has to do with the salt size and the process to make the salt. The weight is a giveaway.

^^ I didn’t know that about salts having different amounts of sodium, but that actually makes sense with my experience—some salts I’ve found that I like, but most salts I find too strong, to the point that seem to overpower the rest of the food. (Yes, I know that salt is supposed to just enhance the flavor that’s already there… My taste buds have decided to disagree for as long as I can remember.) ... I didn’t know that brand was a factor, even within a type of salt, though!

I’m a pepper gal. I love things to be peppery enough to be spicy. I’ll add salt sometimes—because sometimes I do crave it—but otherwise I tend to avoid it. Not for health reasons, just for taste reasons. I think sometimes I actually get too low on salt, and I know that’s not healthy, so I try to stay ahead of it…

Which means: for me, I’m refilling my pepper grinder at what feels like a weekly rate (it’s a small grinder), but my salt shaker will stay full for what feels like years.

The salt doesn’t really have different sodium amounts, it has to do with the size of the granule, or the flakiness of the piece of salt. Maybe that’s what you mean, and I’m being too critical of how it’s worded.

I easily go through 2, maybe 3, large salt containers (the big Mortin’s salt) before I finish up a “spice” sized pepper.

My salt consumption slows down when I eat a lot of packaged foods, because they are already so salty. When I cook from scratch a lot I use a lot of salt. If I ate healthier foods (more fruits and vegetables) I would also consume much less salt.

@JLeslie It is said that sea salt has less sodium but I cannot confirm or deny that.

@kritiper it is commonly said that sea salt contains less sodium but this incorrect (sort of). By weight they contain the same amount however by volume it may be slightly less as sea salt tends to form bigger crystals so there may be less weight due to gaps between the crystals so a teaspoon of sea salt crystals contains less sodium because there’s less sea salt to start off.

@Lightlyseared I didn’t say it had less sodium. (Some TV chef said that and I must assume that he knew what he was talking about.) And whether or not it is actually true, I cannot say. You may say it does not, but how do I know your info is correct and some other person’s isn’t?? Please don’t shoot (me!) the messenger!