Month: August 2025

Good quality wood kitchen products are notoriously expensive, and tremendously popular. If you look at any of the home goods retailers, you will find a sea of wooden trays, boards, bowls, chargers and other goods, and generally they carry a hefty price tag. That’s why we love when Aldi drops dupes that are well-made, but with a much more affordable price tag.

This Aldi Find is a Crofton Acacia Wood Lazy Susan that can be used in various ways this fall season. It can display cooking items, like oil and vinegar, salt and pepper wells and spices. Or it can showcase kitchen decor and gear like a mortar and pestle, high-end spice grinders and clear canisters with dried legumes and coffee beans.

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Likely the most popular use for a lazy susan is storing pantry goods for ease of turning and grabbing what you need without having to pull everything out of the cabinet first. We like to use ours for smaller bottled goods like vinegars, specialty oils and extracts as well as spice mixes we don’t use every day.

Some fans are using it as a charcuterie board when serving a crowd. Whether it’s adorning fresh veggies and fruit, breads and crackers, cheeses and cured meats or dips and chips, this board can really do everything.

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Aldi’s version is nearly identical to a Crate and Barrel style that’s over 5-times the cost, which makes the find even more enticing. The Crate and Barrel version is also made of acacia wood, and is slightly larger at 20-inches, while the Crofton version is 18-inches.

Aldi Is Selling an Acacia Wood Lazy Susan For Only $15

Their wood grain is quite similar, and when taken care of as suggested, should maintain just the same. Aldi suggests using a damp cloth to wipe clean and not to submerge in water. It should be patted dry with a kitchen towel and stored in a well-ventilated space, out of direct sunlight to avoid deformation and discoloration.

The Crate and Barrel lazy susan retails for $79.95, while the Aldi Find is just $14.99. Both feature a bottom that swivels for ease and convenience of retrieving the ingredient or item you need. 

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When Aldi launched this lazy susan last year, fans were thrilled with it. “I use mine for a charcuterie board when I entertain for 20 or more. Love it”, said one commenter on Facebook. “This countertop lazy Susan is the best! I love Acacia wood. It turns silently as well and [is] perfectly balanced”, exclaimed another.

If you’re interested in a modern and handy lazy susan, we recommend showing up at your nearest Aldi store on Wednesday, September 3, as that’s when this product will drop. As with all Aldi Finds, it won’t last long.

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The Great Salt Lake is an extraordinary natural phenomenon, the “largest salt-water lake in the western hemisphere.”

“A remnant of the massive ancient Lake Bonneville, the lake is now landlocked and its waters are salty,” according to Utah.com. “It is the largest lake between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean, and is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere.” It is also the subject of many legends, the site notes.

However, the Great Salt Lake has been “shrinking,” according to an Aug. 31 article by Science Daily. That’s led to some discoveries that “stunned” scientists.

“Great Salt Lake, the largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere, is in crisis,” the University of Utah says on its website, where it sponsors a Great Salt Lake Project. “Decades of unsustainable water consumption, accelerated by drought and climate change, have dramatically reduced water levels. With over 50% of the lakebed now exposed, Great Salt Lake is on a trajectory toward irreversible ecological collapse.”

The Scientists Found ‘Strange Surface Disturbances’ in the Great Salt Lake

According to Science Daily, “as the Great Salt Lake shrinks, scientists are uncovering mysterious groundwater-fed oases hidden beneath its drying lakebed.”

The findings were made by researchers at the University of Utah.

“Reed-covered mounds and strange surface disturbances hint at a vast underground plumbing system that pushes fresh water up under pressure,” wrote Science Daily.

The scientists are “mapping the hidden freshwater reserves” to see whether they “could help restore fragile lakebed crusts, reduce dust pollution, and reveal long-buried secrets of the region’s hydrology,” Science Daily reported.

Bill Johnson, a professor in the Department of Geology & Geophysics, told Science Daily that suspects “the circular mounds: are the result of a “subsurface plumbing system.” Men’s Journal has reached out to Johnson by email for additional details.

“Water in the lake has spent a significant time underground on its way to the lake. But where that happened, we don’t know,” Johnson told the site. “Did that happen somewhere in the uplands where the water spent time in the ground and emerged in the stream before going to the lake? Or was it transmitted directly to the lake?”

The Great Salt Lake’s Water Levels Are ‘Far From Constant’

The new research is dependent on water levels, but they are not consistent.

“Water levels in the lake are far from constant. During its recorded low in 1963, some of the lake’s 10 major islands became peninsulas,” Utah.com reports.

“In 1983, when the lake reached its historic high, it flooded houses, farmland and the nearby freeway. Huge pumps were constructed to deposit excess water into Utah’s west desert. The pumps were shut down in 1989.”

The site adds that the Great Salt Lake “is actually the remainder of prehistoric Lake Bonneville, which covered some 20,000 square miles of land in what is now Utah, Nevada and Idaho some 10,000 to 30,000 years ago.”

“The lake is about 75 miles long and 35 miles wide, with a maximum depth of 33 feet. After a series of wet years, the lake’s surface area may be much larger but it will be only a little bit deeper,” Utah.com reported.

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