How much Is TOO Much???

It’s stock take sale time… On my lunch break Friday I went for a little walk through Myer, I don’t like the current fashion (miss that floor), I have enough shoes (does a woman ever have enough shoes?), make up and perfume – nup. Stockings / pantyhose at 30% off not bad but it would take me 30 minutes in the line. I thought homewares, I love home homewares… I don’t really have a home, but when I’m all really to move into my new house when I finally get around to purchasing (so many ‘when’s’ there) I want to have most kitchen ware on hand.

Looking around I found... Peugeot makes salt and pepper grinders. I want them!

They're so beautiful

Tthe world's sixth-largest car manufacturer has been making pepper, salt and coffee mills for longer than they have been making cars. The Peugeot brothers converted the family mill to produce steel in 1810 and began producing pepper mills in 1842, when the steel pepper mill mechanism was invented by a Peugeot engineer.

The mechanism was so reliable that it has remained in production, virtually unchanged, ever since and remains the most reliable on the market, so much so that it comes with a lifetime guarantee.

Today the Peugeot mills are made at Besançon, in south-west France. Nowadays they use machines but the production process itself has hardly changed in more than 100 years.

The difference between Peugeot pepper mills and salt mills is the mechanism.

Pepper mills use durable hardened steel, for its exacting machining and long term performance. Case hardening is used; a tempering process that makes the grinding head as hard as a ball bearing.

Peugeot pepper mill grinding mechanisms have two different size grooves: Channeling and Grinding. Channeling grooves (the larger ones) are designed to line up the peppercorns and to crack them. The Grinding grooves (the smaller ones) do the actual fine grinding process.

The larger grooves are still individually hand cut into the mechanism using the techniques utilized in the 1842, when the mechanism was first created by Peugeot.

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