gloria.p wrote:
> Steve B wrote:
>
>> Do I need to spend a lot for a good grinder, or are the smaller cheaper ones
>> adequate?
>
> I've owned about six different pepper grinders in my adult life.
> Some have been terrific, others...junk.

To me price seems to have had little to do with how long they last. I
now go with the cheap ones that come on the top of Spice Islands
bottles.

>> Should I have more than one with different pepper or mixes of pepper?
>>
> Do you use different peppers now? I've always thought I'd like to have
> a mill filled with white or mixed peppercorns, but I always fall back on
> Tellicherry.

We usually have a few hanging out in the kitchen. Black, white, red and
green. I think the green ones are Schezuan peppercorns and thus
actually a different species.

Pepper mills also work for other seed spices that are similar in size.
Corriander. A really stout one will work on allspice. Nutmeg is too
big for any I've seen. So far I have not tried putting cloves in one.
I think the cloves would get too weak when exposed to air as long as
it would take me to use it up.