I am fed up braking salt mills and another has gone whilst cooking these cheesy chilli cakes. My pepper one is a bit useless too…

Any recommendations for ones that work, and then carry on working?

What do pro chefs use?

Do campag make them?

What the **** is a salt grinder?
How does it help people win races?
I bet it’s some bloody home economics or something.

😉

What do pro chefs use?

What do amateur chefs use, or those who have gone semi-pro ? What about those that have come out of retirement to do one last big job ?

What do civilians with a set of “chef’s” knives use ?

Oxo good grip jobbies.

Princejohn… It’s a chat forum, where as the football stuff was in a bike forum.

But it is home bloody economics of something 🙂

What tyres for scones?

I’ve got the older version of this.

http://www.bodum.com/gb/en-us/shop/detail/11002-01/?navid=68

Found it in TK Max, and it has outlasted other ones it is great.(IMO)

Peugeot FTW. My mother has an ebony and silver Peugeot peppermill that she found in an antique shop before I was born and still uses it daily. I’m nearly fifty.

http://www.salt-and-pepper-mills-plus.co.uk/productfamily.php/family__119__Peugeot+Chateauneuf+Salt+and+Pepper+Mill+Sets

http://www.coleandmason.com/

Had some expensive ones and they lasted about 6 or 7 years. So as money was tight bough some cheap ones for about £8 they lasted the same amount of time so that’s all I’ve bought again. It’s for grinding salt and pepper so doesn’t need to be fancy.

Peugeot , will keep going forever! If you are on a budget, get the ikea ones, great quality, work great and keep on working. Also I am pretty sure you can’t just pop it in a pepper mill, has to be for salt as sometimes pepper mills will corrode with salt in them. Ikea ones are universal though….

That food looks lovely by the way, you should give my husband some cooking lessons!

Mmmmmmmm, never mind the salt mill . . . post the recipe please Charlie – they look lovely 😛

Thanks for the suggestions… Blimey £100 to put seasoning in food….

Recipe…
Take a basic cheese scone recipe such as http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/8877/cheese-scones

And then add he following ingredients in doses larger than you think is wise..
Cayenne pepper, for background warmth.
Chunks of fresh red chilli, for bomb roulette.
Double glouster cheese for colour contrast with the cheddar
Smoked paprika
Dollops of full grain mustard.
A lot of chopped up spring onions

Top with cheese,
today I served them with niknak crisps… Stylish.

T&G, great customer service. When my pepper mill wore out they sent me a new one. Plus they’re down the road in Nailsea.

Oooooh cheers, I’ll give them a go next week 😛

we’ve got one of these:

aces.

+1 for Cole & Mason. We’ve a pair of their ‘upside down’ mills, which have been excellent.

Peugeot.
Thats it.

Fiat.

I mean Peugeot…

DrP

congrats stw middle class thread of the week award

(to be fair im quite intrigued, im always busting them)

Cole & Mason don’t last long…. I prefer Webber

Shakers not grinders 🙂 http://www.aspirevelotech.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=HUBSHAK

Peugeot all the way. Ours are over 30 and still going strong. Bought at a flea market in France years ago for less than a tenner

I have never had any problem getting salt or pepper from the 70’s ones in cafes, or do you get better salt and pepoer if you grind it yourself?

I just buy these…

A mate of mine has Peugeot salt and pepper mills and quite frankly, they’re nowhere as good as my IKEA ones!
you pays your money, you take your chances…

Anything with a Crushgrind mechanism!

pestle and mortar & a salt & pepper pig?

We’ve got a lovely cast iron one made by Victor. No plastic parts in sight. Works really well and has the feeling of something that will easily outlast me! My mother in law has the same one, but about 30 years old and still going strong, case in point!

Can’t find our exact one but its very similar to this…
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/robert-welch-cast-iron-pepper-mill-grinder

Kitchens in bristol does them

Always loads of cole and mason ones in TK Max

Mine have lasted years and grind very fine still.

Ikea ones with the grinder at the top so no spillage during storage. No complaints so far, if they break pretty sure we can handle paying £5 for a new one!