Q. Dear Rov. I have a new bunch of small glass salt and pepper shakers that we will use when we have a large amount of guest. Do I have to immerse these small salt shakers in a Mikva before using them?
A. Poskim write that salt shakers do require Tevila since salt is considered food and we recite a brocho of Shehakol on it. (Tevilas Kelim 11: 114 p. 218).
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that salt may be different than pepper as it is a food that can’t be contaminated with Tumah (impurity) as Tosafos Baba Basrah 20a mentions. However one can make with certainty a blessing on the pepper shakers. One should still immerse the salt shakers.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a.