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Peugeot Vendome Wet Salt Mill, Chocolate 5-1/2 inches | 
| Brand: Peugeot
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $42.00
Buy New: $41.95
You Save: $0.05
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 18658
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 2 x 2 x 6
MPN: PM19730
Model: PM19730
UPC: 056975014405
EAN: 0056975014405
ASIN: B00061MZWY
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | Made in France since 1842 Lifetime warranty on mechanism | | • | Two-stage mechanism cracks then grinds peppercorns to your specifications | | • | Mechanism made of case hardened steel | | • | Ceramic grinding mechanism is resistant to corrosion. Be careful, do not drop as cermic will break | | • | Wipe with damp cloth to clean |
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Product Description
Peugeot introduces their newest Salt Mill, from the Vendome Guerande collection. Designed to grind and dispense "wet" or Grey sea salt and flowers of salt in the exact amount you desire, the 5-1/2" high Vendome offers contemporary styling based on an 18th century design mechanism that provides perfect hygienic conditions for storage and release of the salt. Comfortable to hold, and easy to use, the Vendome Salt Mill is useful in the kitchen, stylish on the table. Size: 5-1/2" tall
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Low Sodium Wet Salt Mill July 17, 2008
This item is a complete waste of money. Grind away and all you will get is a sore wrist. Might be just the ticket for someone that needs to cut ALL of the salt from their diet.
Pricey Paperweight...Don't! June 8, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Since 1842 you say? If Peugeot had started with this model they wouldn't be in the grinder business. Fill it once with authentic "sel gris de la Guerande" and use it to torture dinner guests. You'll never need a refill, since no salt comes out until you futz with the adjuster ball. Guests fiddle with the settings and wear out their grip on the mal-designed grinder top that goes "round and round in the circle game..."
 NOT great with all wet French salts--TRICKY to use, but can work well... June 4, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is by far NOT the best salt mill I have ever used; however for wet French sea salts, it's the only game in town at this point. Be advised that it takes a lot of tweaking and babying most of the time. Much more so with some salts, less so with others. But it can and does work with some effort.
If you are using it with really wet and coarse salts such as the Grey salts, or Sel Gris', (I used Espirit Du Sel--Sel Gris de l'Ile de Re ), you have to really open the grind mechanism out--way, way coarser than you think will work. The top will wobble and you will think it's way too jiggly, but it will work. However if the salt is too wet, you will run into problems, and even the instructions recommend letting it air dry for a day or two before inserting into this mill. If too wet, these coarser salts come out ground all right, but the wet grains all stick together. When the salt is this wet going into the mill, a fine, fine grind is just out of the question--hardly any salt will come out, much will clump and stay stuck to the grinding mechanism, and what drops out will be very clumped together, giving the impression that even less is actually coming out. You have to set it for a much coarser grind than you think you may like, to the point where the top is wobbly, and you will have even more luck if you slightly dry the salt out before inserting it into this mill.
And sometimes, even when you have it going pretty good and things seem set, it will plug-up slightly and you will have to tap it down, fairly hard onto the counter to free up the grinding mechanism of clumped salt, and to start the flow of salt again. Try tapping the unit down, before fiddling with the knob on top, if the unit had been working well before; this almost always starts the flow back up, and saves you from having to fiddle with the knob and the grind adjustment yet again.
Ironically, with the wetter and coarser Grey salts--the mega-coarse Sel Gris's that need a salt mill the most--this unit is the most problematic and least useful. Peugeot even actually ships the units filled with a Sel Gris, though it appears to be somewhat dried to me. Drying these wetter and coarser Grey salts/Sel Gris' before you insert them into this mill can really help with more output (and as I said, Peugeot even mentions this in the instructions).
I have had the best luck with a drier, finer Fleur de Sel--Fleur De Sel De Camargue. With this finer grained and drier salt, you can set the grind mechanism to a much finer grind, although at the finest the output is still meager, but we are talking powdery fine. For a consistency more akin to table salt, this mill can be set so that the lid is no longer wobbly and the output is much more adequate. Guests will use it and no longer think that the unit is falling apart in their hands--as was literally the case at my table when visitors used the Peugeot filled with the wet Grey salts and set for a coarser grind.
As an added bonus, Fleur de Sel de Camargue (which works so well with this unit), is also one of the more available and affordable of the French Fleur de Sels from the Brittany coast. And more than one American salt selmelier touts it as the most versatile of the French Fleur de Sels. To quote one of them:
"Drier and finer than many other fleur de sels, Fleur de Sel de Camargue is the perfect all-around finishing salt, for use with everything from fish and vegetable dishes to poultry and eggs, popcorn, even chocolate and caramels!"
Used in conjunction with the Fleur de Sel de Camargue (good savings with bulk size HERE), I would elevate my rating of this salt mill to 4 stars, though it still requires some tweaking and babying--but much less than with the coarser Sel Gris'. When used with these wet, wet Grey salts, 2-3 stars is more like it.
Gourmets will be used to such fiddling (which is the core of good cooking) and most will appreciate this unit for what it can offer, while the average home user might find it too constraining and confounding to live with. Unlike my Magnum Pro peppermill, this salt mill is far from trouble free reliability. But again, it is the only game in town..
 Functional and Decorative March 28, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Peugeot Vendome wet salt dispenser performs its function perfectly and effortlessly while looking good on our dinner table. It's worth its price tag.
Don't Do It..... March 5, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you're looking for a pawn like hood ornament for the kitchen table this may fill the bill, otherwise this thing is worthless! The reviewer before me gave four stars yet says that hardly any salt comes out??? After numerous attempts at differing adjustments and degrees of wetness it still would not work. Even slamming it on the counter top and improving my vocabulary produced no salt. Stupid me, I pitched the box et al or this puppy would be in transit on it's way for a refund. Don't blow $50 on this item!
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