This product is a very good all-around mortar and pestle and you need not limit it's use to Thai or Asian cooking. It works well to make pestos and sauces or any ground mixture. There is no doubt that if you want fabulous flavor and strong aromas, you need to grind your own herbs and spices, just before they are added to a recipe. The basic concept with using a mortar and pestle is to add a single ingredient at a time and one ingredient builds on the other forming an eventual well-integrated mixture. The grinding process releases the oils, and flavor essence of the substance. When done carefully you will produce a product that is more flavorful than a product prepared in a food processor.
The product has been discontinued in our webshop
The mortar and pestle is one of the oldest kitchen tools in existence, dating back thousands of years. Used for crushing, grinding and powdering herbs, grains, spices, nuts, roots, teas and all kinds of healthy things, and very handy for pill-crushing, too.
