Vintage Brass Pepper Mill
The link takes you to a new Atlas Brass Pepper Mill, while I found a vintage ours at a flea market for about $10. My girlfriend Lynn and I love to shop flea markets, you never know what you’ll find. These pepper mills are a thing of beauty and function. I’ve heard it’s from Turkey or maybe Greece. This type of pepper mill’s been made for over 300 years. The grinding mechanism adjusts from fine to coarse and it’s ground in a way that it maximizes the flavor.
The bottom of the pepper mill twists off. If you need to grind a lot of pepper, you can grind it into the base and pour it out of the bottom part when you think you’ve ground up enough pepper. There are smaller versions of these that are often used to grind spices… I use the smaller one for white pepper and it also works great.
