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Live Your Spiciest Life With These Pepper Grinders and Salt Wells

From traditional to postmodern, these salt and pepper vessels will keep things fresh.
Live Your Spiciest Life With These Pepper Grinders and Salt Wells
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When people refer to someone being “the salt of the Earth,” I honestly have no idea what they’re talking about. That’s because I’m too interested in thinking about salt for my food. Like, am I getting it from a rustic salt cellar? An elegant, old-school grinder? Where’s “the pepper of the Earth?” What about the weird, electric, LED-spewing machines some of us use to contain it? The truth is that while we love having tasty spices to put on our food, the ~*aesthetic vibe*~ of how we keep those spices is just as important. When we buy salt and pepper, they’re already in containers—it’s where we keep them that shows the world who we are. That one’s for free, fam. 

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Salt cellars and pepper grinders. That’s what we’re talkin’ about here. Do you keep your pepper in a massive, red-sauce-joint-style grinder? Or in a basic container that’s the kitchen gear equivalent of “live, laugh, love?” Well, everything’s about to change. Here are some of our fave spice containers. 

Bonjour to the big daddy

Everyone knows that Peugeot’s 9-inch French pepper grinder is the GOAT. It’s chic, it’s elegant, it’s smooth as hell. It’s got six settings. I use it. You should use it.


$53.50 at Amazon

$53.50 at Amazon

Simply a beautiful cellar

Everything’s coming up French this month, baby! This Le Creuset salt crock is a rustic, timeless cellar that will elevate your whole table.


$39.95 at Amazon

$39.95 at Amazon

If you like “modern art”

Swiss brand Kuhn Rikon makes dependable, attractive gear, and this pepper grinder’s modern design is frankly very sick.


$27$21.95 at Amazon

$27$21.95 at Amazon

For grinding in the dark

An electric, LED-lit grinder that’s got… well… about 20,000 Amazon reviews (with a 4.4-average)? Yeah, sure, let’s do it. This is the Seal Team Six of grinders (or something).


$35.99$25.47 at Amazon

$35.99$25.47 at Amazon

For fans of ‘The Revenant’

Whoa! Careful! This bear-themed set will keep your precious salt and pepper secure. That is, if you plan to fill it with salt. Alternatively, you could fill it with cocaine, turning this little guy into a… cocaine bear. I’m sorry.


$36 at West Elm

$36 at West Elm
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The classic ‘say when’ 

Would you like some pepper, sir? A super-long pepper mill with a walnut stain has timeless mid-century modern appeal (and is ready to hover over your Caesar salad).


$71.45 at Amazon

$71.45 at Amazon

If you like to be reminded of the suburbs

This salt-and-pepper pair isn’t flashy or sexy, but its vibe is malleable—you’ve seen this one (or something like it) everywhere from restaurants and your single friend’s sleek apartment to your parents’ house out in the ‘burbs. Hell, NGL, I have an extremely similar one.


$29.98$14.99 at Amazon

$29.98$14.99 at Amazon

Tit for Tat

A very horny pair. The only thing left to decide is: When you pick it up, are you gonna thumb the breast, or [redacted].


$106$79.50 at Bergdorf Goodman

$106$79.50 at Bergdorf Goodman

Come hither, little chickens

OMFG, these are so cute. These little rooster friends will turn your breakfast nook into a cute space.


$18 at Sur La Table

$18 at Sur La Table

If you wish you lived at a diner 

These are clutch—you’ve used them a million times at diners and cafes. Fun!


$6.99 at Amazon

$6.99 at Amazon

Now, if you only had something good to eat.


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