MSR Alpine Camping Salt and Pepper Shaker

I am so impressed with this shaker. I travel a lot and like to eat my meal preps as I go. I’m also always trying to reduce single use items like those small salt packets. This was the perfect solution as I can store a good amount of salt with little risk of it spilling in my travel bag. Both sides have a strong fitting gasket that only comes off when you want to remove it to fill. The top flip cap is strong and has not come open on its own. No spills so far! Once you open the cap, there are 2 holes that allow a sprinkle of salt with each tap or shake. Great design so you can control how much you put in your food. It would have been easy to have just been a big hole that pours too much, but they took the time to design this well. The entire housing feels like strong material that won’t crack easily. Seems like it will last a long time. I don’t use pepper, but this would be perfect for both salt and pepper with the 2 separate sides. I just fill both with salt. I bought 2 of these so my wife could have one. Well worth the money and we are very pleased.

Small and great to carry around with you.

It stays closed! Really! Compact and light but durable and did I mention it stays closed and air tight? Ordered a 2nd one for 2 different spices.

I bought this to put in my work backpack. Since it's going to be bumping around in there and be used much more than one would on a single camping trip I'm pretty concerned about it potentially opening in my laptop bag. So far this is almost too secure. One star down because it's a little difficult to open the pour spouts without just taking the entire cap off. Getting the entire cap off is enough work that it seems pretty unlikely that I will do it accidentally so I'm not concerned about that. An additional con is that the caps are identical and don't take the fact that pepper is typically ground courser than salt into account. This causes either the pepper to come out too slowly or the salt to come out too quickly. YMMV

OK, this spice shaker is grossly overpriced at nearly $11. However, for my purposes, I was willing to buy. The shaker is small enough to not take up a lot of space in my camping / backpacking supplies, but it actually holds nearly 3-teaspoons in each side. The shaker is 2-5/8" tall. The seals are good. The plastic is not the kind that will shatter or crack if dropped. MSR also make a single-ended version that will hold just one spice. I have that one as well (for all-purpose seasoning) and this one I use for salt and pepper. While some reviews might complain about the small size, for my purposes, 3-teaspoons of any spice is a LOT to use over the course of even 4 or 5 days camping for two or three people. But some people use more spices than I do. :-) As a small, durable, nearly waterproof spice container - I am satisfied.

What can you say, it's MSR, and it's built like most everything MSR builds, high-quality. Compared to others (Coghlan's, etc.), the price is VERY competitive and the product is 10x better quality. I have 6 of these now, one in the lunch box, one in my wife's, one in each of our backpacks, and one in each of our quick-trip fanny packs. Just can't beat them. FOLLOW UP: Having had these for several years now, my wife and I have come to the conclusion that we agree to disagree on this shaker. I LOVE IT, she doesn't. I use it in a backpack and lunchbox, she uses it solely in her lunch pack. You'd think that I'd be the one having complaints or troubles out of the shaker due to being more active, but for whatever reason, she has several complaints on hers (even after we swapped them, mine-for-hers). Her complaints are that the 'pull-plug' on the ends that lets the salt or pepper come out are too-easily jarred open in the lunch box, leading to spills. I said, 'hey, why not put a rubber band over it lengthwise to hold them down?', her reply of course was 'that's too much effort, they should have thought of that'. I have NEVER had mine come unplugged, even when hiking, climbing up into a treestand, etc., so I really don't know what makes hers unplug and dump - again, she took one of mine, and said it still happened. She was also infurated when someone went into her lunchbox at work (open cooler locker), and intentionally stole JUST the MSR shaker from her lunch (seems thieves like MSR, too). She instead got a screw-top Coghlan's, and hasn't had a complaint about it since. So...for her, the Coghlan's worked. For me, I've dumped more salt in my backpack than on my food with Coghlan screw-top shakers, so I'll keep my MSR. Since I wrote this review, I'll keep the 5-stars, but be aware, those end pull-plugs seem to cause some people fits (I think she's just ramming too much into her lunchbox, or something, and it is beating the plugs out - but I can't prove it).

Small, fits wherever due to the triangular shape. Lids seem robust. Just what I needed to carry salt/pepper in my workday lunch kit. The lids work well for moisture resistance, easy to clean and use.

This is wonderfully light weight and secure. We filled the pepper container with lite salt since my wife is on a low salt diet. I plan to buy another one.

Es cara para el tamaño tiene

Petit et léger. Facile à remplir. Hermétique. Idéal pour emmener en trek.

この購入が何度目か？それほどこの商品が好き。他商品で３種や４種のスパイス入れもありますが、 正直使わないかな？キャンプ料理では塩コショウで十分と考える自分としては大満足。Wildoのフォールディングカップにスタッキング出来るこの大きさが素敵。

Bon produit et rapidité de livraison. La salière est bien hermétique et ne s'ouvre pas intempestivement

Light and effective. Perfect hiking companion