Product Description

Bavaria Salt Mill from Olde Thompson features grinding mechanism that is fully adjustable from coase to fine.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8404 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Olde Thompson
• Model: 3823-00
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.00" h x 2.00" w x 3.00" l,

Features

• Fully adjustable grinding mechanism
• Filled with Pepper & Salt
• Stainless Removable Top

Customer Reviews

Fabulous
I have 3 of these on my table. One for sea salt, one for peppercorns and one for flax seed. The sea salt and peppercorns for better taste and the fax seed for better health. This grinder works wonderfully for all 3 applications.

It is a well made product, a great value for the money and looks great on the table.

Get the pepper mill instead...
Note:
The salt mill and the pepper mill are not the same. The salt mill has some sort of ceramic-looking grinder and does not grind as fine as the pepper mill (which is chrome). I like my salt and pepper powder fine, so I just bought two pepper mills and filled one with kosher salt. For that reason, I give this product a 3 star rating instead of 4.

Otherwise, the following is my review for the pepper mill...



I had a tough time finding salt and pepper mills that I liked because they fall into a strange gray area in kitchen devices. Most are either cheap-o plastic jobs that look... well, like cheap-o plastic jobs, or they're those 2 foot tall wooden chess piece lookin' things. I just wanted ones that looked nice, were normal sized for a dining table, and didn't require batteries.

This product fit the bill almost perfectly in every way.


Pros:
The mill looks great. The container is glassy instead of plasticy, and the brushed stainless top looks very nice.

The grinder is on the top instead of the bottom, and it has a metal cap to cover it. This means that the loose grinds don't fall out of the bottom and onto your otherwise clean table.

Contrary to the other review, the adjustable grider is perfect. Turn a little plastic knob on the grinder and you get powder fine grinds. At a more course setting you will of course get a mix of some fine and some course grinds, but that's pretty much how every grinder works.

Did I mention that this thing looks and feels great?


Cons:
The mill is just slightly too large for me. (It's about 2 times the size of a regular salt shaker you'd find at any given diner). It's not a big problem at all, but I would have liked it to be just a bit smaller.

As one review of the salt mill noted, the actual grinder doesn't look very attactive. The end of the screw that is the adjustment knob goes clear through the knob, so you see about an eighth of an inch of screw sticking out. Kinda weird since all they had to do was put the knob on the END of the screw and the whole thing would have been hidden. Again, this is not a make or break issue at all, and I only mention it for the purposes of full disclosure.

Almost a great design
I went looking for a glass salt mill- almost all are plastic. This one is very well made-- sturdy, well finished, quality materials. Two reservations. The push-off cap covers the mechanism and is removed for use. It is awkward to remove and quickly gets worse. It is held on with an 0-ring. The 0-ring gets dirty from salt and binds. Removing the 0-ring leaves the cap loose and wobbly. I replaced the 0-ring with a rubber band. Seems to work ok. The mill is intended to stand upright with the mechanism on the top and turned upside down to operate. The mechanism is unattractive. It is black so it always looks dirty with salt. It should have been white. They could have at least used an attractive finial on the coarseness setting screw. Instead a bare common screw sticks up in the center.