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Salt & Pepper Grinders

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What are the factors in quality?

About a year ago I bought some from Bed Bath & Beyond. The pepper grinder still works fine. The salt grinder, however, wore out and only "shaves" the salt now. Turns out they have plastic "grinders".

What should I be looking for for long lasting quality? Stainless steel? Something else?
 
What are the factors in quality?

About a year ago I bought some from Bed Bath & Beyond. The pepper grinder still works fine. The salt grinder, however, wore out and only "shaves" the salt now. Turns out they have plastic "grinders".

What should I be looking for for long lasting quality? Stainless steel? Something else?

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What are the factors in quality?

About a year ago I bought some from Bed Bath & Beyond. The pepper grinder still works fine. The salt grinder, however, wore out and only "shaves" the salt now. Turns out they have plastic "grinders".

What should I be looking for for long lasting quality? Stainless steel? Something else?

Why worry about long lasting for something that might cost $10? Buy a style you like and if you're concerned about quality then buy two.
 
do yourself a favor and buy a couple of these
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kuhn rikon grinders. $20 each
wont last forever, but work well

if you want a lifetime grinder/mill
peugeot:
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$50-110
 
I have never had a salt grinder that seemed to improve on the taste of salt or worked to my satisfaction. I keep many different salts for different things. I must have 30 different types of salt including flavored salt. It never goes bad or looses it's flavor. I say forget the salt grinder and experiment with the many different salts available. Or buy the small disposable salt grinders.

Fresh ground pepper is clearly better than the already ground. I have many grinders already set up to grind fine or course as well as your different types of pepper. I gave up trying to adjust the grinder. By the time I got it to grind the way I wanted I had too much pepper in whatever I was making.

I have also switched to chilly style peppers for heat and flavor. I have found they dry and freeze well and enhance the flavors of many foods in a way traditional pepper cannot. Plus I grow them fresh. They don't get very big so I plant them in my flower bed. I use the flesh and get rid of the seeds. The seeds seem to create all the problems. Plus you can get plenty of heat from the flesh by just adding more or using the food processor to make the peppers into a sauce. Trust me 20 or 30 habanero peppers pureed added to your chili will be plenty hot without the seeds.
 
Why worry about long lasting for something that might cost $10? Buy a style you like and if you're concerned about quality then buy two.

That is what I think I will do. Plus if you buy them with the salt you can have different ones for all your fussy friends that want sea salt, or non iodized, or that potassium salt. As we get older plain old salt just isn't good enough or OK anymore.
 
Ive never had any luck with grinders. The ones I bought all fizzled out. There was one grinder at a gourmet shop that I wanted to try out but it cost around $50 so there was no way I was going to pay for that. What I do now is use a stone mortar and pestle to grind the black pepper.
 
Why worry about long lasting for something that might cost $10? Buy a style you like and if you're concerned about quality then buy two.

This triggered me. :lol:

I hate planned obsolescence, engineered products to a specific life, crap products or anything that doesn't last. Especially for a simple kitchen tool you'll always have a need for; for such things I'll always go with something built to last even if it costs ~30% more.
 
What are the factors in quality?

About a year ago I bought some from Bed Bath & Beyond. The pepper grinder still works fine. The salt grinder, however, wore out and only "shaves" the salt now. Turns out they have plastic "grinders".

What should I be looking for for long lasting quality? Stainless steel? Something else?

I've been happy with these grinders (own like 6 of them). I believe they have ceramic grinders and they're really, really easy to fill.

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001CDP5UO/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Edit... found a video

 
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What are the factors in quality?

About a year ago I bought some from Bed Bath & Beyond. The pepper grinder still works fine. The salt grinder, however, wore out and only "shaves" the salt now. Turns out they have plastic "grinders".

What should I be looking for for long lasting quality? Stainless steel? Something else?

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Last forever. :2razz:
 
I put my peppercorns in my processor and pulse until powdery. I don't use salt instead I uses "No Salt".
 
Thiss one works pretty well.

http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/2832905/?catalogId=5&sku=2832905&cm_ven=Google_PLA&cm_cat=Shopping&cm_pla=default&cm_ite=default&kwid=productads-adid^52929359623-device^c-plaid^83090054983-sku^2832905-adType^PLA&gclid=CPWqkcDwsNICFZSNswod9lILGg


Wouldn't be surprised if it is cheaper elsewhere.
 
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