Need a new pepper grinder - DS1 has just given the pepper "a good wash"...

[hunkermunker]

Apparently the peppercorns were dirty. So he tipped a cup of water into it, then came and said, "Mummy, I've made a little mess".

So now it's dripping, the peppercorns are squashy and ungrindable and I'd like a lovely new one.

Anyone got a good one? Would like quite a coarse grinder, not dust.

Is pepper somehow anti-MN?! Have I sausage rolled my way into a froot shooting match with this request?!

lol i just get the ready to grind ones from tesco.

Ready to grind? How does that work? [thick]

I mean how does it work without a pepper grinder?

it comes in a pot like this then you just throw it away when you need a new one.

It has a pepper grinder on top, we buy them and they work very well.

Aha! [enlightened]

Is it nice pepper though? I'm fussy particular

well i'm not particularly a connoisseur on black pepper. just know they're whole black peppercorns.

you can probably get tons of variations in tesco.

IKEA sell very inexpensive grinders that sit upright when not in use and therefore don't spill the contents onto your table/shelf. Also has settings to vary size of grind.

Thus

Not beautiful but practical and long-lasting.

lol at his blog

Ooh, hadn't noticed that! How incredibly dull.

Poor chap. No wonder he has chosen to include the IKEA spice grinder - it's to liven up his ramblings.

and the comment:
I?d walked by those blue bags countless times, and, like you, actually wished I had a use for them since they?re so convenient and cheap. Next time we walk over to IKEA, I?m going to buy some.

yawn

should I email him and tell him that IKEA now do mini versions of the Big Blue Bag - or will his head explode?

hmm i'm slightly excited that they now do smaller versions

We're on the look out for a new pepper grinder too - I think IL's are buying one for us for Xmas.

Aparently the one to have is a Peugeot one but the prices are a bit (upto £100)

Oh Betty, if "the one to have" is over £100 then clearly the "one to really have" is from IKEA!

Umm, southeast - slight confession: MIL brought a mini-Blue-Bag with her last time she visited and I coveted it so much she gave it to me and it is my pride and joy. There's just something about stuff in miniature... sigh.

Thank you for more suggestions.

Oh, no, I'm going to have to go to Ikea again

I have two mini blue bags. I love them. I too would have coveted one, had I not got them almost immediately they introduced them. I use one for odd-socks-waiting-for-marriage and the other one for random small boy stuff in the car.

I use the big ones for laundry.

i have an electric one.

Mini bags? They haven't made it to Budapest Ikea yet .

Friends have a battery operated grinder which I love using. Nearly bought one last Xmas but didn't in the end. Can't remember why. May put on my wish list for DH to get.

Oh and lol at "dirty peppercorns" - he'll make someone a great wife!

And another thought. If you do to Ikea for the grinder how many other things will you buy that you never new you needed?

Yes Buda - beware that innocent stroll through IKEA's "marketplace" where you spend £50 on silver-coloured or basket-like crap that you never knew you needed (and don't).

Good idea for the mini-bag - random small boy stuff. I have one of those - a random small boy - so might do the same

And I do know that it should read "Knew" not "new".

Don't get the Cole and Mason one. Dh bought one a few weeks ago. Ds got hold of it, and within minutes of arrival it was irreparably broken.

Dh (who seems to know far more about pepper grinders than I consider normal) tells me that Peugeot ones are a fraction of their UK price in France. Don't know if you can buy them online from a French website - Galeries Lafayettes, perhaps.