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Peugeot is the gold standard. The traditional hourglass shape is around $40-50 for the normal-sized version, and they have a lot of other modern designs. A lot
by atombender 2y ago
Peugeot is the gold standard. The traditional hourglass shape is around $40-50 for the normal-sized version, and they have a lot of other modern designs. A lot of competing brands buy the internal mechanism from Peugeot.
(If you're curious about the name: Yes, it was originally the same company as the Peugeot car/motorcycle company. It was spun out into a separate company at some point, but still owned by the descendants of the original Peugeot family.)
- ginko 2y agoDidn’t have great experiences with peugeot grinders.
- _whiteCaps_ 2y agoInteresting! My Peugeots have lasted 20 years and are still going strong. Maybe they've been enshittified since then.
- wrboyce 2y agoI have the metal ones, just looked and I bought them in March 2018 and they’re fantastic - definitely not enshittified. I particularly like the adjustable grind size!
- __alexs 2y agoThey are decent but not incredible. The adjustment mechanism is mostly plastic so it's fragile and easily broken in a drop. The grinding mechanism is solid metal but also basic and doesn't produce a very even grind at any setting.
- Our_Benefactors 2y ago> and doesn't produce a very even grind at any setting. Moving from an oxo pepper grinder to a Peugeot was night and day. The Peugeot is very consistent, and even the “coarse” setting is more uniform than any other grinder I’ve used. I don’t have this issue at all, very much the opposite.
- dcminter 2y agoI'd never heard of them until a few days ago, then this article mentioned them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42737510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42737510