A Pepper Grinder That Is Anything But Run of the Mill
Männkitchen’s powerful Pepper Cannon delivers on swifter spicing for home chefs.
Entering our au poivre era.
Photographer: Kerri Brewer for Bloomberg Businessweek
If it didn’t come with a wink and a good dose of humor, the machismo—or, for that matter, the $200 price tag—of the Männkitchen Pepper Cannon might leave a bad taste in your mouth. Fortunately, the only thing you’ll be left tasting is pepper, and lots of it.
Ferociously efficient, it can grind a quarter of a cup of peppercorns in just a few minutes. The body is milled from a solid chunk of aircraft-grade aluminum and anodized to a matte jet-black finish. Inside, high-carbon stainless-steel burrs grind mightily, and it takes fewer turns of the head to produce more pepper than other mills. (It worked four times as fast, in our tests.) At 7.25 inches tall, the 1-pound cannon is both understated and imposing—a tool for those who take their spices and cooking seriously.