This is an okay grinder offered from Elacra. The grinding ends are made of stainless steel and the housing for the spices are made from what looks like a hard clear plastic. It is a cylinder tube with dual ends for 2 different hard spices. The cylinder is about the same diameter as a 20 oz. plastic bottle.
The grinding end of this unit are made from stainless steel and have caps that are a press in fit. The cap part that is seen has a stainless stell surface and the part that press fits into the grinding unit are made of plastic. The press fit wears out on the caps pretty quickly. The one cap for my pepper would no longer fit in place, so I went out to the shed and tried spreading the plastic out a bit to make it a press fit again. This worked for a while again the plastic fit lost its hold. The grinder part is a stainless steel tube with plastic gears in it from what I been able to see. I have had no issues out of the gears and they have worked perfetcly from day one.
The holding areas for the spices are fairly large. For our family of 4 the capacity that it holds seems to be about 2 months of use for us. I have only had the grinder for a month and it is at about 1/2 full on the pepper side of my grinder. The housing is made from food grade acrylic and seems to be very solid. Sadly our family has the dropsies so it has been fumbled a few times while beind passed around the table. All of the times that it has been dropped it does not show any wear or signs of damage from being dropped.
If you are looking for a 2 in 1 grinder for your spices this is one that you could consider. I do recommend this grinder to use since the only problem I have had out of it is the cap closure on one end. That is the only reason I am giving it a 4 out of 5. I would like to thank Elacra and affiliates for sending me this grinder to try out and leave my opinion.
Can be found at:
http://www.amazon.com/Elacra-Salt-Pepper-Grinder-Set/dp/B00U6Y22V0
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