Beau M. Davidson wrote:I am daggum tired of the plastic single-use pepper mills that don't work, break, and go in the landfill at end-of-life. It's time to upgrade to a refillable pepper mill.
Here's my main criteria:
No plastic.
Nothing electric.
Buy it for life.
Do you have one you love?
The old-school Greek and Turkish brass or copper ones are cool, but the missus doesn't want to go that route.
Beefy old-school greek pepper mill
I was thinking classic, pawn-shaped twist mill with ceramic burrs. Probably wood, maybe stainless.
These two look decent and get decent chatter on Reddit, for what it's worth:
Trudeau Stainless Pawn Pepper Mill
CrushGrind Pawn Walnut Pepper Mill
Curshgrind seems to make dependable mills that are $50 or less, whereas most other high quality brands are 3 digits.
But then Kristen looked over my should and liked the more modern, straight lines better.
She rather likes this one. I think she'd love it if it was in walnut. We have copious walnut trees on our farm and mill a lot of it, so there is a lot of walnut in our kitchen and dining area.
CrushGrind Modern Oak Pepper Mill
She liked the straight lines of this one, but I wager it is cheaply made and won't last a year:
Adhoc Acacia pepper mill
People seem to really like this weird Kuhn Rikon ratchet grinder, but it has what I assume is acrylic which is not preferable, the mechanism is weird, and it's kind of ugly to me. I mention it because it's different.
Kuhn Rikon Ratchet Grinder
There are some other styles, like twist crank things and stuff, but I skipped it if there weren't any apparent non-plastic examples.
Am I overlooking anything I should be considering? I saw some Peugeot that looked like contenders, but heck it would sting to spend a hundred dollars on a pepper mill.
And if you like a good read where garlic is at the centre of a love affair, I recommend
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres,, although it is set at a terrible time in human history I have to say, as a garlic lover, it is quite memorable!
Guys, guys, we are only talking about a quantity of water for drinking ! How much does a family drink in a day, maybe a big family may consume 20 litres?
This is just a very small scale purification project of a small drum, or jar with the charcoal and sand filters, adn a little tap so it can be drawn off cleanly. We are talking of using an existing well, you throw a bucket down and collect your 20L a day and don't forget to keep the containers clean too, nothing complicated. then you put the filtered water in a nice big earthenware pot in the corner of the kitchen that allows the water to evaporate and it cools a little too, enjoy!
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