I have some regular table salt that became hard. Is there a way I can get it back to its normal state?
By mary ann vance from Beaver, OH
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Put the salt in a zip type bag, place a towel on top of it and use your meat tenderizer to pound it. You can also put it in a blender.
After getting it powdered again, put it in a jar with a tight or 2 piece canning lid.
Since I live in Oregon and everything eventually gets wet, crackers get stale really fast, etc. I keep everything in 1/2 gallon canning jars with the 2 piece canning lids and I never have a problem. After 2 years in a canning jar, my brown sugar is still as soft as the day I bought it!
When you fill your salt shaker add some regular {not instant} rice to the shaker and it will absorb moisture and keep it soft.
This suggestion was right on point, used meat tenderizer to breakup one massive clump, put it in my food processor and whole box of unopened salt
Was back to be used. Saved my pie needed salt and don't usually cook with salt!
Thank you Virginia so much for that useful tip!
Veronica
I'm off to do this with a new box of unopened salt which i need desperately now. if this works i'll love you forever and will transfer my brown sugar too, which i always have to throw out and buy new!
for brown sugar, take a moist paper towel and put brown sugar in a container with air tight lid. put moist towel on top close lid and let any air out of it. put in pantry over night. sugar will be soft. the key is to key air out of container. burp it everytime you use the brown sugar. works like a charm. cathy s
Yes loose again but powdered a bit..
Thank you for your advice. I had already thrown out BHB salt from my Ketone diet. Wish I had known about this.
A slice of bread added to your storage container will soften brown sugar (and chocolate chip cookies) overnight!
For brown sugar put a piece of bread on top and close the lid , leave 8t for few hrs
even rock hard brown sugar will soften overnight in a closed container with a slice of bread
Put a slice of bread in brown sugar. Add lid on top. Presto. Soft!
I tried the suggestion to put the salt in a bag, break it up and the put it through a food processor. The bag split but I didn't really lose that much salt.
I had a large box of canning salt that had harden. I put it in a gallon zip lock bag took my rolling pin on counter top and hit it a few times and rolled it. I put it in a rubbermaid container for storage. No fuss no mess and it was good as new
I used a rasp to file down a block of salt that was created when my wife left a pound of table salt in a round cardboard salt box in the garage. It took about 10 to 15 minutes of elbow grease; but now it's done.
I have no suggestion for already hard salt. But when you fill your salt shake add some rice grains in it. This will prevent the salt going hard. Happy Holidays
Spend a dollar and buy a new box of salt
I have some flavored salt that is no longer manufactured and was a great blend. It was a lot more than a dollar, but I appreciate your suggestion.
As a last resort, if you have a water softener uses salt, you may want to add it to the salt barrel. At least it isn't wasted.
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