In many cuisines around the world, salt is used in cooking, and is often found in salt shakers on diners' eating tables for their personal use on food.
The works opened in early 1891, making items such as figurine salt shakers, punch bowls, cups, and other blown-ware.
A hygroscopic material will tend to become damp and cakey when exposed to moist air (such as the salt inside salt shakers during humid weather).
The probe was actually fashioned from a salt shaker to save costs.
Think of the example of reaching for what one believes to be table salt but is really a salt shaker full of white poison.
