4.5 Inch Perfex Pepper Grinder

4.5 Inch Perfex Pepper Grinder
by Perfex

Our Price: $108.99
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Product Summary

Manufacturer: Perfex
Brand: Perfex
Product features:

Nickel Plated Cast Aluminum Body
Stainless Steel Grinding Heads
4.5 Inches Tall
Made in France

Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of 4.5 Inch Perfex Pepper Grinder

Customer Review: Good while it lasts BUT...
Summary: 2 Stars

I have a larger, 6", mill but in every other respect mine is identical to the 4" one on this page. It has been great to use. Especially, filling it without dismantling or changing the grind adjustment, and getting a good volume of pepper out of it for the effort in grinding it, have been nice features.

It has been the cooking grinder (at the stove, not the table) in our home for about six years. However the grinder has been increasingly ineffective for about the past year, and lately has been putting out roughly a third of the pepper it used to do and feeling oddly free-wheeling while grinding.

Upon dismantling it, as you might have guessed, I've found the burrs to be SHOCKINGLY worn. The coarse burring at the top of the conical burrs is nearly completely gone, and the finer burring is very well-worn. We are NOT exceptionally-heavy users of pepper - the grinder has been used to season dishes an average of maybe 6-8 times per week. My first thought on seeing the wear was, "are the burrs made of aluminum too?!!" They are not only worn, but scarred, showing some gouging in the burr surfaces. The grinder has never been used to grind anything but high-quality Telicherry pepper. The wear is all the more surprising because I've always used a quite-coarse grind... the burrs have never been tightly-adjusted together.

So, on searching the internet to see if burrs can be replaced, I'm not finding any joy, and I'm finding this 4" model for sale at similarly-high prices (I paid almost CDN$200 for mine!) so I thought I'd write this review and warn people about this expensive purchase. It's great while it lasts, BUT...

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Description of 4.5 Inch Perfex Pepper Grinder

Classic in design and excellent in performance for their diminutive size, this cylindrical, crank-top French pepper grinder in nickel plated cast aluminum has been on the market for more than fifty years and has never been outdated or outmoded. You fill the mill with pepper through an easy loading chute on the side and adjust the grind from extra fine to coarse by twisting a nut on the bottom. This pepper mill works exceptionally well with stainless steel grinding heads that transform the peppercorns into precisely the texture you expect. This Perfex Pepper Mill is 4.5 inches tall and is made in France.