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Your cart is empty.This Atlas 9 inch copper pepper mill is hand made in Greece using the same methods used for the past 300 years with durable all metal bodies and a tool steel grinding mechanism built to last. Atlas mills are the origin of the phrase "pepper grinder", since these mills actually grind the pepper. Common pepper mills only smash the peppercorns, which severely limits the flavor release. The Atlas mill is a unique piece of European tradition that is functionally the best in the world!
Jamie
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2024
I saw this in Greek restaurant and thought it was classic so I was very excited to use it. However, upon using it for few months, the pepper grinding wasn't working and the copper became really ugly. Not worth the money and now, I am stuck w an expensive pepper grinder that doesn't work so I threw it away. Very unfortunate.
Jim165
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2020
Sweet series of mills! Love the build quality and the heft. They seem to perform excellent after some trial milling. They really look awesome on the countertop next to the stove. I had to research on a set and I was down to a Peugeot and these as I wanted something I could pass along to relatives. I believe these are a fantastic choice. They weigh about a pound for the salt mill and 1.5lbs for the all metal pepper mill. Yes, $140 is a lot for spice mills, but you’ll probably never have to purchase again...
amaz123
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2014
This review matches the review I gave for the Atlas Salt Mill, Copper, 8" in that in giving this as a gift with the matching salt mill, I was very pleased with the copper finish and the grind. What I didn't appreciate when the packaging arrived was that I didn't see any assembly instructions in the box. So, I unwrapped the plastic that the mill was sent in though I didn't want to because it was a gift. Because there weren't any assembly instructions I didn't know that the grinding tool was actually inside the mill. It wasn't until I received the matching salt mill that I saw the assembly instructions. From those instructions I learned that the tool was intact inside the mill and I easily assembled this mill as well as the salt mill.Also, I did see previous reviews that stated it grinds too fine and doesn't have a mechanism to grind different sized pepper. Also, I saw reviews that it grinds too fine, but we think the grind is perfect and not too fine; it's okay that it doesn't have various grinding levels because we love it how it is. Again, this Atlas Pepper Mill matches so nicely with the salt mill and we couldn't be happier. I would recommend this pepper mill to others!
Steve Gandy
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2011
Very impressive, very solid, very pretty, very effective.Typical pepper mill types: tiny amount from your nimby-pamby grocery store pepper grinder with inconsistent crush size (or worse, pre-ground pepper that possess none of the delicate, floral notes and freshness that grinding of whole peppercorns affords!).The typical grinder requires you to shake your wrist from side to side, which isn't fun. This takes forever and is physically irritating and only spits out a wee amount of crushed peppercorn goodness.The beautiful, solid copper pepper mill on the other hand allows a non-stop circular motion with your forearm while cranking out a virtual HURRICANE OF PEPPER with just a few circles of the crank! If you're in the market for one of these I do recommend it. And if you entertain a lot and/or have this on your tabletop it will impress.Note: the grind size, though adjustable on the bottom, seems mostly fine in size. I like this for every day pepper use. HOWEVER, in my opinion, if you want the large, barely-crushed peppercorns, have your old grinder near by (if it does that).Note: So far, I've not noticed that this picks up my finger prints easily. Though it's shiny and smooth, it seems to stay clean.
hamnet01
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2010
Beautiful little pepper grinder. Never going to break an expensive plastic one again. Metal - the material of your grandparents! Great as is, but for a courser grind it's pretty easy to modify to your liking."Modify a $50 pepper mill" you say? Sure, why not, it's metal. Here's how:Get a punch (like a screwdriver or nail set) hammer, pliers, vice grips or best of all a bench vise, and a file.Unscrew the two philips screws on the side of the mill's body. Drop out the grinding mechanism and the shaft (undo the bolt and remove the handle first).Undo the adjusting screw at the bottom (don't lsoe the spring!) and use the screwdriver/punch and hammer to knock free the adjusting screw's cross bar. I did this on a work glove so as not to mar the grinder or my work bench and so it wouldn't slip away so easily.Once this is knocked free clamp that cross bar in a vise or pliers or whatever and file a section of that cross bar down a millimeter or two. You want to file the wider part of the bar, the side that faces up to the sky when you put it back together. Make sure you don't file the ends that seat the bar in the mechanism, you only want to file an area slightly larger than the diameter of the grinding burr (about 20 or 21 milimeters, or ~10mm from the center of the adjusting screw's hole).Once this is done, but it back together! The cross bar may fit loose when you tap it back in, but it's got nowhere to go once you put the mechanism back in the grinder body. If the very minor rattling bothers you, just put a dab of glue on it to keep it in place. The top cap rattle more anywayNow that adjusting screw will actually have a purpose!This process gives a coarser grind, and also lowers the handle towards the top cap so the top cap won't bounce around quite so much as another reviewer mentioned.If you're a really ballsy pepper grinder modifying gal/guy you can even eliminate the gap between the handle and the top cap by unscrewing the grinding shaft (adjustable wrench on the handle flats) from the burr (wrap the burr with that leather glove and grip it with vice grips/vice/big pliers) and filing down the bottom of the shaft a couple of millimeters. If you go too far the handle will bottom out on the top cap and you'll be stuck with fine grind instead of the courser grind you've already worked so hard for. If this happens, just unscrew the shaft again and stick a pepper corn, or half a pepper corn, or a tiny rock or something small and hard in the bottom and tighten it back up again.Voila! The perfect pepper mill! "Too much work," you say? Yeah, probably, but what else are you gonna do at your grandparents' house for a week with all those tools lying around? Either way, how can you go wrong with a pepper grinder that you can modify to your own tolerances. It's that solid.
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