What Would We Do without the Pepper Mill?
You might recognize the following comedic trope that’s been featured in multiple movies. A man and a woman are sitting down to a romantic dinner at a fancy, up-scale restaurant. They’re having a great time and eventually the food arrives. One character – usually the man – picks up a pepper grinder and starts spicing up his steak with liberal abandon. Suddenly the conversation takes on a serious tone and the two characters are completely wrapped up in what the other one has to say.
The camera pans out about a minute later and we see that the man hasn’t stopped cranking the pepper grinder. A mound of pepper several inches high sits piled up atop his steak. There’s inherent comedy in a setup like this – it’s absurd that someone would go on applying pepper to his food without noticing. In reality, the problem with most manual pepper grinders is that the user is unable to control the precise coarseness and consistency of the pepper.
With a Cilio pepper mill, that problem is circumvented entirely. Although it’s just as flavorful as salt, pepper is healthy in large quantities. Starting with raw pepper corns, these mills grind them into a powdery substance with two metal wheels. Originally, the idea for pepper mills came from coffee grinders. People who had been grinding coffee beans into a fine powder saw the opportunity to do the same with pepper right at the dinner table.