Zassenhaus"Gera" Electric Pepper Mill, Silver

Gave as Christmas gifts. Well received.In fact I plan to give salt grinders next year. Easy to operate and nice looking .

Elegant salt mill with easy to operate button.

Easy to handle especially for people with arthritis. Battery lasts much longer then I have experienced with other salt shakers. Zassenhaus quality is some of the best available, this would be a great wedding or shower gift for someone.

This is our second one because the first pepper mill (which we did not purchase through Amazon. We love the grinder and it works well.

Had these salt and pepper grinders since this past december 2018. Both have already stopped working. Dont be fooled by made in Germany like I was.

This grinder is previously known as the "Zassenhaus Weimar."I have had this grinder for 6+ years and as the title suggests, it is dead now. The switch on top will no longer make contact at all, but it started going bad about 2 years ago. It required pressing the button increasingly harder and at various angles, such that now it no longer works at all. Two years of hard presses also broke the twist lock mechanism on the acrylic base, where the top stainless steel cover latches on (which covers the motor and batteries underneath.)While it worked, it ground well and I never had an issue with the ceramic grinding parts (the only parts that have the 25 year warranty).Now, for the issues:1. Quite expensive for the first 4 years of trouble free service. That's $20/year.2. The LED is useless. And why is there an LED to begin with? Are people eating in the dark or in some dystopian future where there is no light? If you are the kind of person that eats in the dark, may I suggest you illuminate your meal with a flashlight instead?3. It eats AAA batteries at about the same rate as it grinds pepper. 6 batteries per refill.4. Misleading claim of a 25 year warranty that only applies to the ceramic grinding parts and not to the rest of the grinder, which is much more likely to fail.Update 2018-02-25:While the grinding element *might* be made in Germany, the rest of the body gives me the Made in China for a low price-point vibe. A teardown of the switch reveals the most rudimentary design. Here are the issues as I see them:1. The switch area is open to the battery compartment - battery acid or other material can easily contaminate the switch. In the attached picture, you can see the corrosion on the rivet that connects the spring in the battery compartment to the anode (-) side of the battery. You can also see a battery acid like material has migrated over the entire surface of the contact.2. Notice the strip of contact that is suspended by two screws over a hole - there is no support. The button can bottom-out against the base, and with corrosion on the contacts and a yielding bottom contact, it is no wonder it worked poorly.3. It is hard to tell what these contacts are made from, but it is likely some stainless steel stamped bits. Stainless steel is great for many applications, but for long term durability and resistance to surface corrosion, contacts should be made, minimally, from a silver-base alloy.Given what I found in the switch teardown, I have reduced my review from three to two stars.

Snygg och hög precision

Pfeffermühle - sehr gut, Mahlgrad einstellbar, hochwertig

Enfin un moulin digne de ce nom!

Enfin un moulin digne de ce nom!

The only reason I paid so much money for this mill was that I was made to believe this was 'Made in Germany'. Not true, I should've looked harder through the fine print. It is made in CHINA. So adding another cheaply made-highly priced piece of junk to my home. The build quality looks no better than what I picked up last year from Woolworths. Cannot recommend, definitely not at this price point.