How to Crush Pepper Without a Grinder - CHOW Tip

CHOW Senior Food Editor Jill Santopietro shows you how to use simple kitchen equipment to crack whole peppercorns if you don't have a fancy pepper grinder.

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TRANSCRIPT
During the holidays a lot of recipes call for cracked black peppercorn but if you don't have a grinder that can grind black peppercorn thick, there's an option. Take some peppercorns; place them in a heavy skillet. Then place another small heavy pan over it. If you don't use all your weight, it's not going to crack. And you've got your cracked black pepper.