The best ones I found for that were Tupperware....who no longer makes them! My parents had small ones for their trailer, and the lids finally wore off. We had larger ones. Finally, Rubbermaid came up with a solution - capped salt and pepper. But they're hardly decorative, if you're looking for that. Suggestion, though - some rice in the salt shaker should keep it from coagulating. Not sure about the pepper shaker. DonnaR/CA

Those OXO ones look good to me! I like how easy it is to control the grind. I just have a cheap (10 dollars) Old Thompson (Thomas?) pepper mill that works fine... but I use it for cooking only. I don't think it would look good on a table. I'll tell you what NOT to buy... the Chefn' bunny ear contraptions. You have to squeeze forever and a day to get any amount of salt or pepper out of them. The squeeze mechanism on the first set I had broke within a month. The replacements haven't, but only because I stopped using them. They are hard to fill and somehow moisture got into the salt one and made it ineffective. I've been pretty happy with my Oxo stuff, the mandoline and salad spinner. A brand I will never buy anything from again is Onieda, total junk! At least the box grater hasn't rusted yet... but after terrible experiences with garlic press, meat mallet, and ice cream scoop, I will steer clear. Bed, Bath and Beyond does have a return policy (I made sure of that when I bought a 140 dollar iron... didn't want to be stuck with something that didn't live up to its claims, but so far it's OK), so I'd say to try it and see what you think. Just one thing... be sure to let us know what you get and what you think of it when you decide!

Many manufacturers of dinnerware with non-English sounding names - like Pfaltzgraff, Mikasa, Dansk, etc., misleadingly put on a facade of being elegant foreign brands but in fact are US companies and always have been. For many years, companies like these and other well known names as Lenox manufactured their products in the US and in higher-quality foreign locations. Today, I believe all the US factories for these up-market lines have long since closed. Most production is sourced from lower cost and lower quality locations like China. China has had a few too many incidents of contaminated or adulterated products to suit my taste. It's a funny irony because of the name, I prefer not to buy china from China. For those of you getting replacement pieces for old sets, what you buy today may be from a different factory even if the same pattern. Friends have told me of having some success in finding "old" stuff at replacements.com.

I bought an Atlas in 2015 but the handle broke after a couple of years. The grind was fine, no matter what setting. Then, I used whatever came with store-bought pepper for a while. I bought a Kuhn Rikon set at the end of 2017. I didn't adjust the grind so can't speak to that. I really liked how it worked but the mechanism was attached with plastic spokes and it broke off a week ago. I gave the other in the set to my mom, who lives 10 hrs away, a week before that! Her grinder took forever to produce. Now, I have the Unicorn Magnum. It arrived a few days ago and I love the adjustment even though I tend to use one grind most of the time. You get a LOT of pepper very easily so it's my favorite mechanism, so far. It's just not pretty like the Atlas or cute like the KR. I use Kosher Salt or Maldon flakes, so no grinder.