Your favorite white pepper powder?

[Logan]

So I've just recently started using fine powdered white pepper and love it in my simple pasta with greens and chicken or fish dish. I had some around that I'm not sure where I got is but I got it in bulk. I thought it was the Frontier Organic white pepper. The stuff I had was perfect, I felt no need to find anything else but now I'm in a conundrum. Bought a pound of the Frontier and while it is pretty good and better than a random pick from the Asian grocery store it is nowhere near as good as what I may never be able to replace. Does any white pepper aficionado out there have a finely powdered white pepper that they love that doesn't smell real bad and of course has a fairly strong and excellent flavor? All I'm interested in is the finely ground powdered stuff.
Thanks

 

[Jovidah]

Asking a bunch of cooks about their favorite white powder.... nice bait!

 

[HumbleHomeCook]

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[stringer]

So I've just recently started using fine powdered white pepper and love it in my simple pasta with greens and chicken or fish dish. I had some around that I'm not sure where I got is but I got it in bulk. I thought it was the Frontier Organic white pepper. The stuff I had was perfect, I felt no need to find anything else but now I'm in a conundrum. Bought a pound of the Frontier and while it is pretty good and better than a random pick from the Asian grocery store it is nowhere near as good as what I may never be able to replace. Does any white pepper aficionado out there have a finely powdered white pepper that they love that doesn't smell real bad and of course has a fairly strong and excellent flavor? All I'm interested in is the finely ground powdered stuff.
Thanks

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I will be interested to see people's opinions. I have never found a white pepper that tasted like anything besides a mildewy basement lavatory floor. I never use it. It is vastly inferior to every other color of peppercorn and kind of like comparing white chocolate to the real thing. I can't imagine why I would want to put something that tastes so bad on my food. Maybe I just haven't found the right one.

 

[More_Gyutos]

Same here.

 

[Michi]

I have never found a white pepper that tasted like anything besides a mildewy basement lavatory floor.

Don’t hold back, please!

 

[stringer]

Don’t hold back, please!

Never!

 

[M1k3]

A lot of Chef's/Cooks I've worked with like the stuff from Columbia.

 

[blokey]

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I will be interested to see people's opinions. I have never found a white pepper that tasted like anything besides a mildewy basement lavatory floor. I never use it. It is vastly inferior to every other color of peppercorn and kind of like comparing white chocolate to the real thing. I can't imagine why I would want to put something that tastes so bad on my food. Maybe I just haven't found the right one.

Can’t have a good Chinese fish soup without white pepper tho, it taste horrendous on its on but come a life in rich dishes

 

[stringer]

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Can’t have a good Chinese fish soup without white pepper tho, it taste horrendous on its on but come a life in rich dishes

They may be true. But every time I taste white pepper in mashed potatoes or vichyssoise or bouillabaisse it makes me want to wretch.

 

[More_Gyutos]

They may be true. But every time I taste white pepper in mashed potatoes or vichyssoise or bouillabaisse it makes me want to wretch.

I think this is my problem too. I used it early in my career for things like that and it just Overtook the dish. I stopping using it pretty quickly.

 

[MarcelNL]

buy whole white peppercorns and grind them fresh,, preground usually is years old stuff...Kampot is my current fave.

 

[nopomo]

Penzeys is the best pre-ground pepper I’ve had.

 

[boomchakabowwow]

damn. i admit i buy this shaker full of the stuff. i am 99% sure the brand is Mr. Chens. hahhaha..

i am not a super fan of the white stuff, but this stuff is super powerful enough.

 

[tostadas]

Many of the ones I tried have a mildew odor that I can't stand, as @stringer mentioned. This is the one I currently use where I haven't noticed that issue.

 

[boomchakabowwow]

Many of the ones I tried have a mildew odor that I can't stand, as @stringer mentioned. This is the one I currently use where I haven't noticed that issue.
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that's it. not Mr.Chens. uncle Chen!!! I have the same shaker bottle.

 

[stringer]

buy whole white peppercorns and grind them fresh,, preground usually is years old stuff...Kampot is my current fave.

My wife has a shaker/grinder of "rainbow" peppercorn from Trader Joe's. I refuse to use it because the proportion of white peppercorns is entirely too high. She is trying to get rid of it by putting it on stuff that she makes that I don't eat.

Many of the ones I tried have a mildew odor that I can't stand, as @stringer mentioned. This is the one I currently use where I haven't noticed that issue.
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I will give it a try next time I'm at the Asian grocer

 

[boomchakabowwow]

yes. Uncle Chen perfumed my hot and sour soup beautifully. a nice heat, and smell. nothing off putting