Wooden Pepper & Salt mill recommendations please

[ElleL]

Not sure if this is the right Topic place but Kitchen/Housekeeping …

I’m looking for small Wooden Pepper & Salt grinders that mill very finely, evenly, and sparingly with low output per twist. Is there such a thing anymore?

I tried the Peugeot Paris one after reading many glowing reviews but was shocked at how much pepper it dumped out in one spot. Even with a tiny 8th turn of the mill! Fine if you need efficiency for adding tons to recipes, but completely useless if you want to season lightly over the top of already cooked food or even just for seasoning home made fries for the oven / roast veggies - you’d get all the pepper you need over about 3 fries!

Looking for wooden as have had bad experiences with plastic being ground into food with plastic body ones. Which is a shame as the Le Cruset ones seem to be reviewed as a ‘meagre output and incapable of a course grind’, which sounds perfect for what we need them for 😁The only wooden ones they do are huge.

Any recommendations ??
Thank you

I love my Cole and Mason wooden grinders. Best I've ever had, and I bought one for my mum because her variety of options were so dreadful.

Thank you. I’ve been looking at those and love the design of the ‘London’.

Which model do you have and can they sprinkle fine milled sparingly?

That's a shame you've had a bad experience with plastic ones. For what it's worth I have the Le Creuset ones and have had them for years with no issue at all. I would agree with the reviews that the pepper in particular is very sparing in the grind. Obviously you can change how fine/coarse the grind is on them like most other mills so you can adjust them to your liking.

Thanks for replying.
Are yours the plastic mini’s or the large ones? Wondering if size makes a difference to output for Le Creucet?

This one: www.lakeland.co.uk/26559/cole-and-mason-classic-beech-wood-pepper-mill

It grinds pretty fine if the knob at the top is tight. I think you can also adjust something underneath to get a finer grind though I have never done it (spotted this tip online somewhere recently!).

We have always had cole and mason and I would not describe it as a fine grind - though we are quite heavy on our pepper pots. As PP said screwing them up tight helps.

I would look for an electric one with adjustable output. Whether you can get that in wood, I don't know.

I wonder if you'd be better off with a cheap one. I would expect an expensive one to give a higher yield per twist.

You could also perhaps use a less pungent form of pepper so the volume is not so critical. Pink peppercorns perhaps, or a blend? Though I think they are not actually pepper.

www.davidmellordesign.com/david-mellor-small-salt-pepper-mill-natural

The mill, which is the part that grinds is never made of wood, only plastic or metal. The metal parts ( mills) seem to grind more finely than the plastic ones in my experience ( You could buy some fine ground pepper, it keeps perfectly well in an airtight jar).

I cant get a pepper grinder to suit either so I just grind a handful of peppercorns in my pestle and morter and have that on the table in a wee ramakin

Thank you for your message. By Wooden, I was referring to the body of the mill/grinder/pot (what is the technical name for it? I’ve only ever seen them sold as ‘mills’) not the actual mechanism, which will of course be either metal or ceramic.
Having said that, we do actually have a very old wet salt mill that has a ribbed wooden grinder - it does not work now though having been worn down. It just turns the whole salt crystals past it so has been relegated to ornament status!
Re pre-ground pepper. You really can’t beat freshly cracked, even if you don’t want to dump a ton on your dinner 😉

Thank you all for your recommendations, info and suggestions. I’m really grateful and it’s helped a lot.
Putting all the info together we ended up going with the wooden Le Creuset ones and they’ve turned out to be exactly what we were looking for. Although bigger than I initially wanted they’re actually very light and well balanced. Very happy with them.
Thanks again