WauWau pepper mills

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"They come in almost all shapes and colors: timeless cylinders in beech, curved towers in checkerboard pattern, bright orange traffic look cone. We are talking about pepper mills. Thomas Kreuz has been designing and producing them in Vienna since the 1990s. In 2009, the trained goldsmith opened a small store on Westbahnstraße in Vienna's seventh district: the high walls are made of brick, and the colorful mills are lined up in glass display cases. These are now also available for ChiliMuscat and, for about two years now, also for coffee.

"The heart of the mills is the Grinding mill", explains 52-year-old Kreuz. This is produced in the back room of the store itself. All mills are handmade from wood and precious metal. Krez deliberately avoids plastic. "The mills have their price. But they are sustainable, timeless and practically indestructible," explains the designer. Every now and then, he says, old, broken mills are brought over. "Then I simply install a new grinder, and they work again," he says.

Cross himself? He is a declared pepper lover and practically always has pepper with him everywhere. For this purpose, he has specially designed a small "travel mill" the size of a matchbox. "You need good pepper for a good meal," he says with conviction. You can also buy it - along with the mills - in his store."