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We love salt and pepper shakers of all kinds here - after all, what would food be without seasonings? It would be boring. And while it doesn't hurt to have an interesting set of shakers on the table, there is such a thing as having ones that are too interesting. Creepy, even. These chicken feet salt and pepper shakers let you "shake a leg" in seasoning your food, but they still look like chicken feet and they might be disconcerting to see on the table. They're also $50 per pair, and at that price, I'd rather spend the money on some expensive salt than ceramic feet.

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On the scale of all the things that need to be done when preparing food, like cleaning, chopping, roasting, etc., seasoning food with salt and pepper is low on my list of things that require effort. That said, it probably isn't surprising that I find Movers & Shakers, the self-shaking salt and pepper shakers, to be ridiculous. To operate the plastic shakers, you just have to pull the cord at the bottom of the shaker, invert over your plate and they vibrate, shaking out as much or as little seasoning as your taste buds desire. The only thing that they don't do is hold themselves over the plate, though I'm sure with a little creativity you could figure out a way to suspend them in the middle of the table. Of course, if you refill the shakers with Spepper, you'll really have reached the pinnacle of easy seasoning.

The shakers: $7.99. The cost of saving a second of actual effort? Priceless.

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For some reason salt and pepper shakers seem hideously expensive to me. Decent stainless steel twisty ones never seem to be under £30 a pair. I have taken to putting my Malden sea-salt in a little dish and just using my hands as my twisty one doesn't; twist that is. These don't fit my needs or my price bracket. Nor my taste either come to that.

Kitsch or just crap? Glazed semi-porcelain ice cream salt and pepper shakers. From an original 1970's mould apparently. They certainly had style back in the 70's. Not sure whose mind...

Ice Cream Salt and Pepper Shakers £89 from Couverture.

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