Salt and pepper shakers come in all sizes and prices, ... The sticker has lines for Pattern No., Finish Date and Order No. Sources say the Maddox Co. was started in 1898.

While normally shakers makes it obvious about which one is for salt and which one is for pepper, that was not exactly the case here—if you’re prone to overthinking things, which appears to be.

A–”Many salt and pepper shakers have the same size holes,” says Mike Perrone, a spokesman for PM Foods Inc., a distributing company for salt, pepper and other groceries.

The Best Salt and Pepper Shakers (for Every Type of Design Aesthetic) Jazz up your tablescape with colorful Le Creuset mills, tinned fish-shaped shakers, and more grinders and pinch pots to impress.

It’s $200. Called the Smalt, the smart salt shaker can also play music through a bluetooth speaker, offers multi-colored mood lighting, and lastly, but perhaps most importantly, can dispense ...