This figures; our pepper mill broke today.

A new one could have been a gift!
Anyway, it was a battery-operated PITA from the day it entered this house.
Do you have a pepper mill you swear by that works magnificently?
Would that be one of those hand-grinding wooden ones that seem
to always drip pepper?

It's wooden, almost 30 years old, and still works beautifully. Yes, it always leaves a bit of pepper wherever I set it down. I've learned to mop up the pepper and consider it a small price to pay for fresh ground peppercorns.

I also have a metal job, brand unknown, that does a coarser cracked pepper for the things that call for it. I also have a plastic one, make unknown, that's a small salt shaker on top and pepper grinder on the bottom that I keep on the tray when I'm dining in front of the TV. It doesn't grind the pepper as finely as does the Peugeot, but it's close.

Insist on metal grinding works that can be adjusted for fineness of grind, and you can't go far wrong. Plastic innards work, but they won't last as long as metal.

They're the king of peppermills. I just got a new set (salt and peppermill) when we was in Paris. It went to my son. It is just as well made and precise as the one I've had for a brazillian years. With Peugeot, the price difference is in the finish and stle. The mechanisms are all the same. So the cheapest one will perform equally to the expensive one.

I also have several others. I love one I was given as a gift. Sadly, it has no name on it. The whole thing is made from cast metal alloys. Except the grinder. That's steel. It has a crank on top instead of the usual large 'knob' and the peppercorns go in a little trap door on the side. It is pretty small but very heavy and works wonderfully. I wish I knew who made it.

I have several others, too. Among them, and of note, is the one handed 'rabbit head' thingie. It works great and uses a whole different kind of mechanism. It is very handy for use in cooking.

That's the one I have that does the very nice cracked pepper.

It's one of the plastic ones you hold with one hand and squeeze the "rabbit ears" on top. I never had one like this and like it better than the grinders. I think the wooden grinders may look nicer on the table. But I like how this new one performs - if you can handle the squeeze action. Looks sort of like this one.

I bought mine 16 years ago & paid bookoo bucks for it. (I've noticed they've come way down in price). Before that, I had bought cheaper ones that I had to replace every year or so. Finally broke down & shelled out the money & still have it. So it's obviously cheaper in the long run.

Did it break before, during or after the making of the Prime Rib?

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peppercorns with the mortar and pestel anyway. And I've discovered I'm not all that fond of eating whole peppercorns:eyes: so did the pepper work for me? Not so much... However, overall, the meat came out perfectly. Roast beef sandwiches here we come, but not tonight.
And I totally forgot about the horseradish, so I guess it wasn't all that important!:hi:

be making the investment, especially after SO got about 9 boxes of peppercorns from his sister!:crazy:

I have a peppermill from Penzey's and it works fine...but there are a few occasions where I actually like to bang the crap out of spices (including pepper) by hand.

Like when I made pfefferneusse yesterday, to take to my SO's ex-wife's house for the Soap Opera Christmas (which went fine, BTW)...I needed cloves, allspice, cinnamon, pepper and nutmeg, and I did the first four via M&P (nutmeg via grater). :thumbsup:

My can opener broke today.. just bit the dust.. kaput! And the strange thing is the &%#@* thing was new..

Guess I should go write down "can opener" on the shopping list while I'm thinking about it..

It's almost 3:00 a.m. here (Anchorage) but I have to drive a friend to the airport at 5:00 a.m., so I decided to just stay up.. I'll regret that decision tomorrow I'm sure..

Ones you can't adjust always seem to grind too fine for my taste.

...that I've been using for twenty years without a hitch. Grinds perfectly for my taste. Probably paid $9.95 for the salt shaker and pepper mill together, maybe less :-). My only complaint is that it's small, modeled after regular table sized shakers, so I have to refill it every week or two. I have an acrylic plastic one, probably four times the price, that cracks the peppercorns rather than truly grinding them-- it sucks for most uses.