It's time.
and its texture were a total crapshoot. Despite adjusting the grinder this way and that—looser/coarser, tighter/finer—it was stubbornly unwilling to respond. Cleaning the thing, we hoped, might solve the issue., was a gift for our wedding back in 2013. That’s eight years—what could probably be considered middle-age for many kitchen tools. The fact that we haven’t properly cleaned these things inis a little shameful but probably not all that uncommon.
, working the cloth into the nooks and crannies both inside and out. Give everything a final rinse before setting out to dry. No one wants salt that tastes like soap residue.I can’t overemphasize the importance of letting your mill and its parts dry completely before reassembly. In other words, don’t clean your grinder in preparation of hosting a big dinner party the same night.