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It dries and is not in the food path really. Works great for holding the grind ( or a thousand other things ). The screw is tiny so I used the weakest I could find ( purple I think )

Jean,

Penzey's are the Peugeot style. Not a fan.

I ordered an Atlas. Will tell you how it turns out. May get a Unicorn as well.

Be careful of what "grade" of loctite you use. There are some that are seriously tough to get apart when used. The grade you want is for "hand tools", the low strength purple stuff or at worst the medium strength blue stuff. Do not use the high strength red stuff unless do not want to take it apart again ever. ever. ever.

Good thread (small pun) since I have the smaller black monolithic 6 inch "Magnum" pepper grinder and often cuss at it when my hands are wet. If the Gumby style Unicorn works pretty well (save the thread locking issue) then I may add that to my "wanna get" list. Anyone had either the Magnum or Unicorn salt grinder? We have a lot of salt caking problems due to the humidity here, I don't know if one of these would help any or not.

Tatoosh,

SF is fairly humid (70-80%) and I found my Peugeot salt grinder to be a total write-off here. After a week or so in the grinder, the salt caked up and it would no longer grind.

What we've found works best is the medieval-style "upside-down" ceramic salt shakers, like this one:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/62868438/sa ... topperless

Because it's very hard for air to get into the shaker, it doesn't cake up like others do.

I've never seen anything like that before! Amazing! I'll have to see if I can get one of those stuffed into my next "care package" from the States.

Steve,

Alternately, maybe you could get a local potter to make it.

Good idea, though I will have to have my wife or brother-in-law do the negotiating. Prices tend shoot upward if I am on the scene, just a part of living here.

It's now a fait accompli for Fuzzy but fwiw CI also "highly recommended" William Bounds ProView Pepper Mill.

In 2008, they said, "Testers loved the "intuitive" grind adjuster with fixed settings and the window at the bottom of the hopper, which allows you to see when you need to refill. While this mill couldn’t keep pace with the output of the Magnum Plus, it produced perfectly uniform pepper at the coarse, medium, and fine settings."

http://www.amazon.com/William-Bounds-Proview-11-Inch-Pepper/dp/B000BZCHQ4/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1339091606&sr=8-5

Magnum here. Agree with Pete, I have to adjust the grind setting fairly often. Holds a ton of peppercorns.

Well, the Atlas arrived while I was in Charlotte. Just loaded it with pepper and tried it out. It holds a lot of pepper, and works really well for a fine-to-medium grind; it doesn't really do coarse. There's a separate screw for adjusting the grind with a tension spring. And it has a really satisfying heft, and you can turn the crank around and around and completely bury something in pepper. Pasta Cacio e Pepe, here I come!

It's also preeeettttttyyyy, which you have to admit the Unicorn is not. I bought the copper one:



The Atlas's main drawback is refilling it; you have to remove the nut, handle, and cap so it's a bit of a chore.