Peugeot PM19730 Vendome 5.5 Inch Wet Salt Mill, Chocolate

 (8 customer reviews)

If you're looking for a pawn like hood ornament for the kitchen table this may fill the bill, otherwise this thing is worthless! The reviewer before me gave four stars yet says that hardly any salt comes out??? After numerous attempts at differing adjustments and degrees of wetness it still would not work. Even slamming it on the counter top and improving my vocabulary produced no salt. Stupid me, I pitched the box et al or this puppy would be in transit on it's way for a refund. Don't blow $50 on this item!

Since 1842 you say? If Peugeot had started with this model they wouldn't be in the grinder business. Fill it once with authentic "sel gris de la Guerande" and use it to torture dinner guests. You'll never need a refill, since no salt comes out until you futz with the adjuster ball. Guests fiddle with the settings and wear out their grip on the mal-designed grinder top that goes "round and round in the circle game..."

This is by far NOT the best salt mill I have ever used; however for wet French sea salts, it's the only game in town at this point. Be advised that it takes a lot of tweaking and babying most of the time. Much more so with some salts, less so with others. But it can and does work with some effort.

If you are using it with really wet and coarse salts such as the Grey salts, or Sel Gris', (I used Espirit Du Sel--Sel Gris de l'Ile de Ré ), you have to really open the grind mechanism out--way, way coarser than you think will work. The top will wobble and you will think it's way too jiggly, but it will work. However if the salt is too wet, you will run into problems, and even the instructions recommend letting it air dry for a day or two before inserting into this mill. If too wet, these coarser salts come out ground all right, but the wet grains all stick together. When the salt is this wet going into the mill, a fine, fine grind is just out of the question--hardly any...Read more