How to Clean a Pepper Mill

I love having a mill to crack freshly ground pepper onto salad and pasta. And I’ve used our pick—the sleek, trusty Peugeot Paris u’Select Pepper Mill—for years. But I’d recently placed my pepper mill in storage for a year. When I took it back out, I tried to season some eggs, and I was perplexed that it wouldn’t crank anything out. As I learned, damp pepper can get cakey and prevent a mill from grinding properly—I needed to clean it out and add fresh pepper.

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