"A classic case of RTFM"
I came onto the Lakeland website to rant about how this was the worse salt mill I had ever bought; it dispensed zero salt and squeaked. Then I read the description and realised that the markings at the base were not for weird techno decoration, but actually to define the amount (and size) of salt dispensed. Having played around with it now I retract my original opinion and think its a pretty good idea. In my defence, when I bought it I'd just moved house and spent 2 days unpacking so wasn't really paying attention to instructions for something as basic as a salt mill.