| | |  | Gadgets | Home » » Copper Pepper Mill | | | | | | | Description: | | This hand made Greek Copper Pepper Mill design has been used for centuries to grind pepper, coffee, cinnamon, and many other botanicals. This mill is designed to cleave the pepper rather than smash the peppercorns to maximize the flavor and aroma of the pepper. Pepper mill aficionados often accumulate a collection of disappointing pepper mills. We believe your first remark will be "Finally a mill that works," when you use your new mill. | | | Features: | |
• Hand made
• 9.5 inches tall
• Designed to cleave pepper, not crush it
• Copper construction
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 11.25 inches | | Product Width:
| 2.75 inches | | Product Height:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 2.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 3.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 29 reviews |
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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Best quality pepper millJun 03, 2008
By A. Zerkle
"Loves Great Kitchen Gear"
I was hesitant to buy this peppermill because of the price... I needed a new one after losing my old one in a move. I've owned three peppermills and is the best one I've ever used at home, in a restaurant or cooking demonstration. I loved it so much that I bought a additional one to use for grinding whole cinnamon and purchased the matching salt grinder! These are built to last a lifetime and the grind size is adjustable. A interesting thing I noticed after the purchase is the handle on top for the salt and pepper grinders is cut differently... in other words Im saying these would be a nice gift for someone without site.. they could use touch to tell which is which.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Solid, Simple, GORGEOUSAug 15, 2008
By catslave
Yes, it's expensive, but nothing gimicky, completely solid, and does a wonderful job. Nothing shoddy to break-- this thing will last forever, and looks great on the counter, and even better on the dining room table with even the fanciest place settings. No plastic, and very easy on the hands. Very intuitive to adjust the grind. The last mill I had broke after just a few months. You get what you pay for, I guess.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
WITHOUT PEER, THIS MILLJul 20, 2008
By Malcolm Reding
"lucky dawg"
I have Atlas owned mills, both professionally and personally for some years. I have tried others but none of them are on the same level as the Atlas. It never breaks and is infinitely adjustable. They are worth every penny you pay for them.
6 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Solid yet flawed productJul 20, 2010
By Nick Cheng
Either the Greeks have a different idea of what coarse black pepper looks like compared to American standards, or this pepper mill is less than perfect. The tightest setting using the screw on the bottom creates a fine powder as expected, but the loosest setting gives the grinder almost no slack, meaning the "coarse" setting is hardly coarse. I did a side-by-side comparison on a white dish with bright fluorescent kitchen lights on, and I knew I wasn't mistaken; there was very little difference in the fineness. Why even give us an adjustable screw if it does almost nothing? With an additional 1/8" of slack to the bottom, we would have cracked pepper. No reason not to have this much desired setting.
Removing the screw and steel gate on the bottom by making a light tap from a tapered hammer changed things drastically. Every part inside is made of solid steel, so there was no worry of damaging anything. Except for the poor design of the coarse pepper setting, everything else is simple and elegantly designed; you can see why there's a lifetime warranty for the thing. With the offending screw and gate gone, the additional slack produces a much better grind (there's now a 1/4" gap between fine and coarse compared to the 1/8" it was before). Without the gate holding the bottom together, I now had to load the pepper mill sideways, almost like a Chinese finger trap. Similar to casks of whiskey losing some product due to evaporation, I now had to lose an "angel's share" of black pepper to the Gods in order to re-tighten the lid. Thankfully peppercorns are cheap in bulk, so no big deal. I just threw away the tiny amount that fell out.
I know it sounds crazy to have to Macgyver a solution for something that costs almost $70, but in my opinion it was necessary. Coarse pepper I could have lived with, but not this interpretation of fine pepper masquerading as coarse with no discernible difference. There is now a perfect showering blend of fine, coarse, and 1/8th to 1/4th sized cracked peppercorns in every grind. As a bonus it fires out even more pepper than before.
I know what people want when they buy a pepper mill; they want an exact reenactment of a server who busts out with a 24"-36" long mahogany weapon and cracks pepper over their clam chowder until the patron smiles, raises their hand, and politely says "thank you, that's enough." With the default product, this isn't possible. With a slight tap from a tapered hammer, it's now perfect and gives restaurant quality cracked pepper. Because of that, I see no reason to return it, and hey, I enjoyed the little challenge.
Now, some cynics may argue that cracked pepper is just another gimmick used by restaurants to overcharge you for a bowl of chowder. Well, why would you ever invite such spoil-sports to your favorite restaurant anyways? I know I wouldn't.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
How to mod your millOct 13, 2010
By hamnet01
Beautiful little pepper grinder. Never going to break an expensive plastic one again. Metal - the material of your grandparents! Great as is, but for a courser grind it's pretty easy to modify to your liking.
"Modify a $50 pepper mill" you say? Sure, why not, it's metal. Here's how:
Get a punch (like a screwdriver or nail set) hammer, pliers, vice grips or best of all a bench vise, and a file.
Unscrew the two philips screws on the side of the mill's body. Drop out the grinding mechanism and the shaft (undo the bolt and remove the handle first).
Undo the adjusting screw at the bottom (don't lsoe the spring!) and use the screwdriver/punch and hammer to knock free the adjusting screw's cross bar. I did this on a work glove so as not to mar the grinder or my work bench and so it wouldn't slip away so easily.
Once this is knocked free clamp that cross bar in a vise or pliers or whatever and file a section of that cross bar down a millimeter or two. You want to file the wider part of the bar, the side that faces up to the sky when you put it back together. Make sure you don't file the ends that seat the bar in the mechanism, you only want to file an area slightly larger than the diameter of the grinding burr (about 20 or 21 milimeters, or ~10mm from the center of the adjusting screw's hole).
Once this is done, but it back together! The cross bar may fit loose when you tap it back in, but it's got nowhere to go once you put the mechanism back in the grinder body. If the very minor rattling bothers you, just put a dab of glue on it to keep it in place. The top cap rattle more anyway
Now that adjusting screw will actually have a purpose!
This process gives a coarser grind, and also lowers the handle towards the top cap so the top cap won't bounce around quite so much as another reviewer mentioned.
If you're a really ballsy pepper grinder modifying gal/guy you can even eliminate the gap between the handle and the top cap by unscrewing the grinding shaft (adjustable wrench on the handle flats) from the burr (wrap the burr with that leather glove and grip it with vice grips/vice/big pliers) and filing down the bottom of the shaft a couple of millimeters. If you go too far the handle will bottom out on the top cap and you'll be stuck with fine grind instead of the courser grind you've already worked so hard for. If this happens, just unscrew the shaft again and stick a pepper corn, or half a pepper corn, or a tiny rock or something small and hard in the bottom and tighten it back up again.
Voila! The perfect pepper mill! "Too much work," you say? Yeah, probably, but what else are you gonna do at your grandparents' house for a week with all those tools lying around? Either way, how can you go wrong with a pepper grinder that you can modify to your own tolerances. It's that solid.
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