Mario Batali Salt Cellar

This little kitchen treat is awesome. I didn't really want to pay the price, but I love it now that I've got it.

I bought this as a Christmas present for my husband and excitedly opened it and found a very poorly crafted item. Neither of the sets of magnets are lined up. In the closed position the cellar looks like it's stepped, rather than being a nice closed column of wood. It looks really terrible, I can't believe someone assembled this and thought it was fine.

This is not the first time I am buying a salt cellar. For some reason unknown to me --they wind up MISSING !! I suppose thrown out or dropped out. I'd been eyeing all sorts of salt cellars and " salt pigs " for quite awhile.

I could not resist--when I saw these Mario Batali....and please note..that I do not usually buy these sorts of branded items.

First...let me tell you that I was not happy in the way they were shipped and one arrived damaged...the box was open and no filling to be seen. I do not know whats up with that manner of shipping.

Once I got one of them up and out of the box...I was amazed at the feeling of the weight of it. This was something that I personally need in my kitchen....because light weight stuff--seems to "DISAPPEAR" in my house. I want something with some ""FEEL OF WEIGHT " to it. These have it !!!

Next issue for me when trying to buy these sorts of things are the size of the openings !! I have seen some really cute "Pigs" ---with 2 1/2 inch openings....way too small for my hands. I nneded a large easy to fit my hands in opening-----probably just like MARIO !!!......because this salt cellar fit it perfectly !!!!!!! I couldn't be more happier over that !!!

The wood is super smooth...and your hands just glide up and down the surfaces.

I also like the fact that it has a real cover to it. The cover can be removed--if you just can't stand it...But in my house --covers are exactly what I want. I have pets...step kids and a husband.

I put two types of salt in the one for the table ...Greek Style Salt which has rosemary in it.......and a soft flaked salt for "finishing" .

Personally---I love Mario Batali's salt cellars ---and do highly recomend them.........I hope they to being in stock one day soon --so others may enjoy them as well !!

I received my salt cellar from Amazon and it was defective. There were spaces between the openings and the magnetic closures did not work at all. Amazon is amazingly helpful (as always) and is taking care of this problem. But this is not why I rated it one star, the reason for that is this thing is HUGE! No measurements prepared me for how big this is. It's absolutely useless. Every single time you need a pinch of salt you would have to get this HUGE salt cellar out, you would almost need two hands to use it. I love to cook, I use a variety of salts to enhance flavors, if I had to use this every day I would go insane. The idea behind it is very good; having two different salts at the same time is great. Something this big and poorly made has no use in my kitchen.

This salt keeper is rather large but that is not my issue. The tops would not line up when closed so it is always a little off and the top salt portion completely came off a bit too easily for me. I would recommend spending a few more dollars for a better quality salt keeper.