I finally came up with a solution!
The pepper grinder we'd had for years finally quit. The gears were just worn out. I bought a cheapy replacement from Shopko; it lasted for 8 months before the handle broke off. For Christmas there was a nice new high-quality (HA!) pepper grinder from Bed, Bath, And Beyond. It worked well for two weeks. Today I was so exasperated with it, I timed it: three minutes of grinding garnered me a whole whoppin' 1/16 teaspoon of pepper. Now, I'm thinkin' that's pretty darn useless.
I got me a hammer from the basement. I got me a piece of paper out of the junk mail pile. I dumped a small pile of peppercorns onto the paper, folded in the corners to make a little package, and then hammered it to smithereens. When I opened up the little packet of junk mail, I had myself a nice tablespoon of smashed-up pepper for the bean soup. And it took significantly less than 144 minutes [do the math from the preceding paragraph].
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I love your resourcefulness!
ReplyDeleteBe on the lookout for a post from me that I'll need your input on... I'll be counting on your kitchen wisdom. Probably tomorrow morning, since I'm about to fall asleep on the couch right now. =)
Instead of a nut chopper, I put the nuts in a baggie and start whopping it with the rolling pin. I like the way it works much better and it's fun to swing that rolling pin at something.
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