How The Pepper Cannon came to be:

In the Fall of 2018, Cleve Oines seasoned 4 steaks with salt and freshly ground black pepper.  

It took 73 cranks of the pepper mill.

At crank 10, Cleve wondered if there was a better way.  Pre ground pepper degrades rapidly so it isn't an ideal option.

At crank 20, he adjusted his pepper mill to the "COARSE" setting in order to increase the output.  The difference was imperceptible.

At crank 30, he wondered why there was such wide variation in grind size, with huge chunks of pepper popping ponderously from the pepper mill preceding particulates of petite pepper powder.  Preposterous.

At crank 40, he wondered if pepper mills hadn't been updated since the 5th century when peppercorns were used as currency, or perhaps since they were used to embalm Pharaoh Ramses II in 1213 BC.  It certainly seemed like the pepper mill was designed to conserve its precious spice...  

At crank 50, he considered the possibility of pepper mills as home fitness devices, then he remembered that cranking pepper mills is boring.  More pepper with less cranks was the answer.

At crank 73 he stopped grinding, and resolved to build a better pepper mill.

786 days, 54 revisions, 11 prototypes,  82 tests, and 4,673 sneezes later, the MÄNNKITCHEN Pepper Cannon was born.