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Peugeot pepper grinders: apparently the best--but I won't buy one
I need a new pepper grinder. My chef friends tell me, "get a peugeot, they're the best...it's the same company as the car!"
my response, "like hell I'm buying a peugeot" "why" "he helped keep Dr Porsche in the klink during WWII and after" "oh" "and it's French mechanical item" ....any suggestions? I am considering the Greek metal one with the crank.
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Eff the Greeks!!! They are throwing Europe into turmoil with their debt problems.... pick your poison.
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Buy a Kyocera ceramic peppermill..
They can be had in coarse or fine grind... and cost less than the Peugeot LOL Kyocera Peppermill
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I have a Paderno, it's lasted longer than any other I've owned.
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It will just surrender as soon as the task gets too difficult........
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09-06-2011, 07:54 PM
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I have a couple of the Peugeot grinders. One for salt, one for pepper. They live over the range for cooking use. My 2 cents.
A power grinder is very convenient. When one hand is holding something hot, stirring something delicate, smeared with something slippery, using two hands on a manual grinder doesn't work. - the motor is pretty strong and can actually wear down the notch that holds everything aligned. Fixable in 10 min with a small drill bit and a small screw. It took several years for this to happen to my pepper grinder. - the salt grinder is a waste of $, salt lives happily in a little tub (cellar) for pinching. I'm trying to find something else to use it for - nutmeg? |
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09-06-2011, 08:15 PM
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There are plenty of products that won't survive the history test, (including Porsche), if you want to "go there". Henry Ford wasn't exactly kosher.
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09-06-2011, 08:55 PM
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I heard that some purists use a motor and pistol to grind pepper corns. I never understood that.
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09-06-2011, 09:28 PM
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I thought that was Renault, not Peugot that kept F. Porsche as their engineering slave after WWII.
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09-06-2011, 09:29 PM
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Ultimately you should buy what you want. I have two Peugeot grinders, 14 inch, the tall ones. They look good and they grind. Very happy with them.
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Сидеть, ложь, Переворачиваться Last edited by Geronimo '74; 09-06-2011 at 09:50 PM.. |
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09-06-2011, 09:46 PM
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It's more like this:
The French government/military used Peugeot as part of a ruse to lure Ferdinand Porsche to France after the war, telling him that they were interested in developing a people's car and wanted his input or possible partnership(?) At any rate, it was all BS and he fell for it. He was arrested for war crimes when he entered France. He was later cleared, if not mistaken. Peugeot is part of my family, (by marriage). It is the second largest automaker in Europe, after VW.
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09-06-2011, 09:57 PM
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I have a Peugeot pepper grinder. It really is awesome
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09-06-2011, 10:21 PM
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I like my Peugots as well.
One secret (from Anthony Boudrain) to keeping them working really well is never to grind over a cooking pot/pan. The heat and steam will cake the pepper in the grinders and gum them up in short order. So always grind on a side-plate and then throw this in the pot/pan.
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The best pepper mill ever made... The Atlas Pepper Mill.
Forget the rest. This one has been around for over 300 years. Hand made in Greece. 
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you put pepper on your Freedom Fries?
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09-07-2011, 03:16 AM
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i love my william bounds. it smokes my older puegots.
that black vibrator looking one, (pegasus?) is supposed to make it rain pepper.
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Wow. When's the quilting bee, ladies?
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My wife gave me the pepper and salt grinders for Christmas. Pepper grinder is great, the salt grinder is not so much (steam gunks up the bottom).
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I looked at my salt and pepper grinders last night. Although they sit on my kitchen table 24/7/365, I had no idea what brand they were. Turns out they are Peugeot. Seem to work well but honestly never really cared. Still don't.
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