
MANNKITCHEN Pepper Cannon, Professional Grade Heavy Duty High Output Pepper Mill: Even with its strong-performance, the price point of this grinder was just too high to recommend. Chef'n PepperBall: This model was entirely inefficient at grinding pepper. Eparé Electric Pepper Grinder: This model did fine, but took about twice as long to grind pepper as our favorite one-handed model. Cole & Mason Oxley One Handed Pepper Grinder: It took forever to grind just one teaspoon of pepper with this mill. Peugeot Paris u’Select Pepper Mill: This was another of a middle-of-the-pack mill, but we found it harder to fill. Atlas Brass Pepper Mill: This mill was heavy, expensive, and didn't crack coarse pepper very well. Olde Thompson Bavaria Peppermill: This mill did a decent job, falling in the middle of the pack in most of our tests, but it testers thought it was top-heavy. Kuhn Rikon Epicurean Ratchet Grinder: This mill required way too many cranks to achieve a mere teaspoon of pepper and it completely failed the drop test. Kuhn Rikon Vase Grinder: Even though this mill’s smaller cousin won our testing, this size failed our durability test and some testers complained about how uncomfortable it was to hold and turn. Fletchers' Mill Border Grill Pepper Mill: We liked the look of this pepper mill and it performed just average and was not a standout winner. William Bounds Comet Pepper Mill: This mill only had three settings, disqualifying it early on. William Bounds Spice Swinger Pepper Mill: This pepper mill did an extremely poor job at finely grinding pepper.
OXO Pepper Grinder: This mill was easy to load, but very slow at grinding pepper.
OXO Radial Pepper Mill: This pepper mill failed our durability test-sending peppercorns all over the floor when dropped. Unicorn Keytop Pepper Mill: This pepper mill was slow and not as capable with coarse grinding. Trudeau Professional Pepper Mill: We found this mill to be uncomfortable to hold and difficult to load. Cole & Mason Capstans Pepper Mill: This mill took too long to grind pepper and we found some cranks of this grinder didn't produce any ground pepper at all. It suffered during our durability test, but was easy to load and comfortable to grind. Cole & Mason Derwent Pepper Grinder: This mill performed well, if a little slow to grind. Serious Eats / Vicky Wasik The Competition