William Bounds Nut Twister Nutmeg Mill, Chrome

 (16 customer reviews)

I have owned this nutmeg mill for over 2 years - a gift from my wife. The mill is good-looking and has the great advantage of keeping the nutmegs together with the tool. Its storage capacity is 4 to 5 average size nutmegs under the acrylic, plus one nutmeg being grated.However, outside of being a handsome storage box for nutmegs, it is not greatly useful. The center spring which pushes against the nutmeg being grated is not very strong, and the cutting mechanism is not strongly abrasive. As a result, the mill will stop working before a netmug is fully processed, and leave you with about 1/3 of a nutmeg which cannot be milled. Also, because of the way the spring grabs the nutmeg (through small triangular teeth), it frequently start slipping against the nutmeg it is trying to hold in place. When that happens, you can grind as much as you want but nothing will come out, since the nutmeg is not being rotated.Altogether this is quite frustrating. It requires constant adjustment. When...Read more

I saw this grinder on display at a small kitchenware shop and gave it a few turns. It easily produced a cloud-like drift of the thinnest possible nutmeg shavings! Of course, I bought one, but mine never worked remotely as well. It had all the problems described at length by other reviewers -- the spring slipping, the need to constantly readjust, not being capable of grinding the whole bean, seemingly not sharp enough. It was so different from the demo grinder that I contacted William Bounds and they sent me a replacement. It was to no avail. Wm. Bounds company advises putting the nutmeg into the receptacle, and then turning it upside down to screw the top on. I've faithfully done this, with marginal results and this action must be repeated many times during the life of one nutmeg bean. Apparently, some people have gotten a good model, which means that Wm. Bounds should really be taken to task for their poor quality control. I see that Peugeot is producing a similar grinder, and it...Read more

I, too, had the same complaints about this grinder evidenced by many of the unhappy reviewers .... until I discovered it isn't the grinder, but the nutmegs which came with it that were at fault; they were too soft. Perhaps the included nutmegs were stale, or perhaps I had allowed them to be subjected to high humidity, but until I had exhausted the supply which came with the grinder I constantly had to fidget with the nut to keep it shaving. Most frustrating was when the bosses that are supposed to impale the nut to fix it rigidly to the spindle simply chew a circle in the top of the nut while the blade holds it motionless from below.

Once I started buying fresher, harder nutmegs the difficulties I'd been having stopped altogether. It was really that simple. When a nut has stopped shaving (at about an eighth inch thickness) I take it out and put a fresh nut in. Once that nut has been ground flat on the bottom I can return the previous partial to the chamber, putting it...Read more