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Searching for the World's Best Pepper Mill
at Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:41:06 GMT in
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(PENMART01) wrote :
>(Alex Rast)
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>>The finest grind setting is coarser than what I would like ideally. I'd
>>like to be able to grind down to the consistency of ultra-fine pastry
>>flour for certain spices...
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>No burr grinder is capable of so fine a grind, certainly not with high
>quality peppercorns (too oily).
Not for pepper, but for other (less oily) spices. I don't quite see why it
would be impossible to manufacture a grinder with that level of possible
grind. But it would require extreme precision. I suspect all the parts
would need to be mounted on precision bearings to permit the kind of fine
tolerances one would require. As I said, these are quibbles. I don't
seriously expect a company would manufacture such a grinder, but in an
ideal world, they would.
>>The actual mechanism is difficult to clean. I'd prefer something you
>>could disassemble quickly right down to the grinding buhrs, so that you
>>could give them a thorough clean when using them for multiple spices.
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>I've been using mine for 5-6 years, many tmes each day, needs no
>cleaning.
If you're using it only for pepper, probably no cleaning required. But I
like to use mine for many different spices, e.g. cinnamon, cumin, cardamom,
pepper, etc... For that case I'd like to be able to clean it out between
different spices so as not to mix the flavour of one for the other. As it
is, the only thing I can really do is grind a certain amount of the new
spice, throw that portion out, then grind the stuff I'm actually going to
use.
>>It would also be nice to have a hard ceramic buhr available for more
>>resilient items. That would also provide a longer life, IMHO.
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>No comment.
What are you signifying? Do you really have nothing to say on this? Do you
think there's some self-evidently obvious reason that ceramic would be a
bad choice? Do you think this is getting overly obsessive? Sorry if I'm
sounding obtuse but I would appreciate some clarification.
>>It's really big for table use. This isn't a major quibble, because I
>>use it for cooking, where a smaller one would be impractical, and I
>>think it's silly to get 2, one for cooking and one for the table.
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>Why? Do you have only one spoon?
Because a grinder is a semi-major mechanical apparatus. As such, as long as
one can do the job, there shouldn't really be a need for others. Spoons, I
might have more than one, because I would expect more than one person might
wish to use a spoon at the same time, but do I have more than one of each
type of spoon that typically no more than one person would wish to use
simultaneously? No. So, I have one large wooden spoon, one stirring spoon,
one slotted spoon, etc. I prefer not to have duplicates of items performing
essentially the same function.
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Alex Rast
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