Damp pepper can get cakey and prevent a mill from grinding properly— if you haven’t used your pepper mill in a while, clean it out and add fresh pepper. Here are a few simple cleaning steps → Always ...

"Unless you're planning to throw it away, you never want plastic -- it's just too soft," Tsvedos says. "It will grind well for a while, and then it just stops working very well if at all." That's the ...