If you’re wondering what happened to all those bricked phones that used to have the 20 foot coiled cord in your kitchen before everything went cordless, you’ll be happy to see that some of them have been put to good use, maybe. It appears that at least a few of them ended up in hands of Netherlands designer Henk Stallinga where he turned them into salt and pepper shakers.

It actually seems to work out well, where the earpiece has fewer holes and the mouthpeice has more just like a salt and pepper shaker would, respectively. The clearer back pieces are salvaged as well from the light indicators off of old Morris Mini cars, which apparently match up nicely size-wise.

Even though this is kind of a cool idea and the salt and pepper holes thing works out, I’m just not sure I would ever be comfortable sprinkling anything onto my food from the ear and mouth pieces of an old phone, used or not. If you are interested however, this set goes for $22 from Charles & Marie.