On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 21:10:42 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 3/1/2016 8:00 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> My trusty grinder seemed to stop grinding recently, so I bought a new
>> one yesterday. Well, it too won't grind the peppercorns I have
>> here...the very same ones that /used/ to grind just fine.
>>
>> So I can only assume the problem lies with the peppercorns I have.
>> They are fairly old, I can't recall when I bought them but suffice to
>> say, well over a year ago. Has anyone else struck this problem?
>>
>
>Could be the grinder is not adjusted properly or defective. Never had a
>problem with peppercorns.

Just before I was hunting around in a cupboard for some smoked paprika
(made some hommous) and I found another pepper grinder I'd forgotten
about (a very tall one which I don't really need, which is why it was
stashed in there, I guess). Anyway, same thing... it won't grind the
peppercorns I have. I can only put it down to the peppercorns being
too old and now too hard <shrug>. The matching new salt mill I bought
with it works fine, BTW.

>Take it back and get an Atlas.

I just looked them up. Nice looking mills, especially the brass ones.
If I have no joy with my new mill I might just get one, along with a
salt mill.