{"title":"Salt \u0026 Pepper Mills","description":"\u003cp\u003eManual salt and pepper mills in beech and lacquered wood, with a grind setting adjusted at the table. 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Peugeot builds the salt mechanism from 18\/10 stainless, where the chromium and nickel form a layer that resists exactly that attack. \u003cstrong\u003ePut peppercorns through a salt mill and you are asking a metal chosen for corrosion resistance to do a job that needs hardness instead.\u003c\/strong\u003e The teeth dull, the grind turns inconsistent, and nothing brings it back. One mill, one seasoning, permanently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCrystals Break, They Do Not Shear\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe salt mechanism works by crushing between ribbed plates, which is a different action from what a pepper mill does. A salt crystal is brittle and fractures cleanly under pressure, so the mechanism only has to apply force rather than cut. That is also why what you load matters: Peugeot points buyers at dry rock, and puts a ceiling on how big a crystal the plates will take. \u003cstrong\u003eDamp salt is what jams a mill, not coarse salt\u003c\/strong\u003e, because moisture makes crystals stick to each other and to the plates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Case for a Short Mill\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive inches is a dining table height rather than a cooking height. It sits beside the plates, gets picked up with one hand, and does not tip when somebody passes it across. The trade is capacity and reach: a five inch body holds less and needs to be brought to the food rather than held over a pan. If your seasoning happens mostly at the stove, height buys you something this size deliberately gives up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLoading, Grinding and Wood\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat kind of salt should go in it?\u003c\/strong\u003e Dry rock salt, with grains no larger than about four millimeters. Anything wetter or coarser than that is asking the plates to move something they were not sized for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan I use it for peppercorns instead?\u003c\/strong\u003e No, and the damage is one way. Stainless was picked for corrosion resistance rather than hardness, so peppercorns wear the teeth down and the mill never grinds evenly again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDoes untreated beech need any care?\u003c\/strong\u003e Keep it dry and wipe rather than wash. 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The drawer turns that into a number. \u003cstrong\u003eGrind into it, look at what you have, and add exactly that to the pot.\u003c\/strong\u003e It also lets you prepare seasoning before you start cooking, which is the difference between pepper going in when the dish needs it and pepper going in when you get around to grinding it. The shape comes from Peugeot's old coffee mills, where the same argument applied to a different bean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTwo Stages Inside the Steel\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA peppercorn is not crushed in this mechanism, it is cracked and then ground, in that order. Case-hardened steel carries two sizes of groove: the larger ones split each corn open and steer the halves into the smaller ones, which do the actual grinding. \u003cstrong\u003eSplitting the corn first is what releases the oils that carry the smell\u003c\/strong\u003e, and it is why freshly ground pepper from a good mechanism smells like something while pre-ground pepper mostly does not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSetting the Grind and Keeping It\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe grind is set by lifting a spring tab and turning a thumbwheel, clockwise for finer. The tab then drops back and locks the wheel, which is the part that matters: a setting that holds is a setting you can rely on across a whole dinner. Case-hardened steel is chosen here for hardness rather than corrosion resistance, so salt has no business in this mill at all. Salt will attack the steel and the damage does not reverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFilling, Spices and Cleaning\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat peppercorns suit a mill like this?\u003c\/strong\u003e Whole dry ones of any variety. Black, white and green all pass through the same mechanism, and because it arrives empty you can start with whichever you would rather be eating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan it grind spices other than pepper?\u003c\/strong\u003e Dry, hard spices of a similar size will pass, coriander seed being the common example. Anything oily or soft will smear inside the grooves rather than fracture, and once that happens it has to be brushed out dry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow is a mill with a drawer cleaned?\u003c\/strong\u003e Empty the drawer and brush the mechanism dry. 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The one thing to know is that the ring lives underneath, so the mill gets turned over to change it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat Lacquer Buys and Costs\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLacquer seals the surface, and on a piece that lives where food is served that matters more than it sounds. Wine, oil and sauce sit on top of a lacquered body and come away with a cloth; raw wood takes them into the grain and keeps them. The cost is that a lacquered finish shows a scratch where bare wood absorbs one, so this suits a table where the mill is set down rather than a workbench where it gets knocked about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHeight Is About the Table\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeven inches exists for one purpose: reaching food that is not directly in front of you. On a laid table the mill goes over the plate rather than the plate coming to the mill, and three extra inches is the difference between doing that seated and doing it standing. 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