Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Ignore the price and stop comparing inferior products; buy this, it's pretty much the perfect size and dumps a borderline obscene amount of pepper per grind, although it can be a bit slick to use if your hands are wet. Metal grinding element will very likely outlive the plastic body, depending how often you drop it. The little catch tray for your countertop is great, and the filling hole is not as awkward as other reviewers made it seem. Adjustable size has a great range from super fine to huge chunks (which is where I will be leaving it forever). It looks a little ominous on your kitchen counter at first, like it's some alien device that's watching you cook, but I have a solution to both this appearance and the slippery problems. I took 5 fat purple rubber bands that came wrapped around asparagus or broccoli or something and put 2 around the top part and 3 around the main body. This makes it look a little goofy and not so serious, plus now I can crank the heck out of it when my hands are wet or covered in olive oil. Now it's perfect. Make sure you get a costco-sized tub of peppercorns because you're going to be drowning all your salads and omelets in heavy streams of course-ground pepper from now on. This thing holds a TON of peppercorns and it's basically impossible to just crank a tiny smidge out of this thing (but who can actually taste a smidge of pepper anyway??) so you will end up churning through peppercorns like your name's Mario and you are making your grandmother's Italian recipes. I just ran out of pepper today after filling it up barely a month ago and thinking that it held a year's worth of peppercorns.