OT Peppermills For God Sakes

munk said:
HI Bruce. Welcome to HI.

I went to your site. I finally bought a coffee grinder for my pepper. I could not find my Father's mill for less than 60 bucks- a wooden box with a drawer. In retrospect, I wish I'd got one of the Greek metal mills. I beleive there was one with a storage compartment for ground pepper.

I have the Universal. It is mostly novelty, I think, though it does work. Perhaps the coffee bean could be ground as fine as it boasts, but the pepper pod occasionally slips through. The little wooden drawer is now made from Pine for cost savings, and I could crumple it in my 'bare hands" , the stand is also Pine. My oldest son and I already have plans for improved structures should these fail. Also, if this cast iron locomotive of a grinder ever falls it will break, I'm betting.
On the plus it has a big wheel to turn and a little drawer to open- and my small son's are captivated.

We've covered hot peppers here in the forum before- there are many fans. I'm in my 40's now and prefer the El Yucateco green habanero salsa picante.

I try and give business to forum members. I hope you stay and get yourself a HI Khukuri. Watch for the specials around noon some days.

munk
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I do have a khukri somewhere, I bought in in Nepal about 20 years ago when I was stranded there for 24 hours on my way for India to Hong Kong. I hope we can supply you with a peppermill the next time you need one.

Bruce
 
Welcome to the Cantina Bruce!:D Pepper and peppers are a great subject here as is cooking which goes hand in hand as you can see.
One of these days I would like to have a really good peppermill. One that will stay in adjustment with the settings being a helluva lot more accurate than the cheap ones we have.
Sometimes I like really fine ground pepper and neither of our cheap mills will give that knid of performance. But as in all things, you get what you pay for.
 
I have been a busy guy lately not much time to spend chatting in forums, but I thought I would give a heads-up that my humble little company Pepper-Passion is mentioned in the latest (September) issue of Sunset Magazine. We have about two pages beginning on page 72L.

Regards, Bruce
www.pepper-passion.com
 
That's great, Bruce.

I, too, was photographed in Sunset, about 35 years ago, watching a friend play ping-pong. There were no Hollywood offers.
 
smokinbasser said:
I have been using a novel pepper grinder for several years and I like it it is plastic with what appears to be pot metal grinders and it leaves no noticible taste to the pepper it is a ball shaped tool with a grip on top like a garden hose trigger and you just squeeze it to grind and it has a courseness adjuster on it also I did get it at a Wallyworld though.
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smokinbasser
Hey, I have one of those too. It does work pretty good.


Munk
Have you looked at the supermarket? Ours sells them (peppermills) with the peppercorns already in. They're some sort of clear acrylic material and I assume they are refillable. They're in the spice section.

Don't know how good they are though.

Mark T.
 
arguably the best mill on the market today is black plastic and looks like a dil---er uh, anyway, I don't want one. I believe it has already been mentioned in this thread.
The coffee mill I got was a dead end. It does not grind uniformly. Entire pepper corns can escape the process, landing in the tray whole.

I don't have another 40 bucks to blow but when I do it will be on one of the standing table models from Turkey or Greece- metal cannister type.

The mills I saw in Pepper Passion were most beautiful but well over my price range. I didnt see a basic wood modle. Maybe one is there.

At any rate, I'm going to customize my Pappy snake killer before another mill, and I still have to pay for the handgun purchase of the Summer.
These last khuk sales in HI forum have really been something- and me completely broke.

munk
 
munk--check Cost Plus World Market for those Turkish and Greek pepper mills. I think they're around $30.

--Josh
 
So sorry that hollwood did not come calling. With a business that presently handles 1-2 orders per day (outside of art shows) I think having a favorable two page article being read by 1.5 million readers might be huge. You can play the number any way you want and it still lo0ks big to me. Not bad for a one person business only 12 months old don't you think?

Bruce

Aardvark said:
That's great, Bruce.

I, too, was photographed in Sunset, about 35 years ago, watching a friend play ping-pong. There were no Hollywood offers.
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