Mortar & Pestle Sets

Because we use no additives or preservatives, our rubs have a tendency to clump. We recommend adding a Mortar & Pestle Sets to your purchase so you can easily grind these seasonings to your specification. Fine grinding helps in the absorption into the foods being prepared. These sets are of the highest quality and we stand behind them.

Ancient Africans, Sumerians, Egyptians, Polynesians, Native Americans, Chinese, Indians, Greeks, Celts and countless other people used mortars and pestles for processing materials and substances for cooking, arts, cosmetics, simple chemicals, ceramics and medicine.

In cooking, they are typically used to crush spices, to make pesto and certain cocktails such as the mojito. That requires the gentle crushing of sugar, ice, and mint leaves in the glass with a pestle.

Mortar & Pestle Sets are also used in cooking to prepare wet or oily ingredients such as guacamole, hummus and pesto (which derives its name from the pestle pounding). They’re also used to grind spices into powder. The molcajete, a version used by pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican cultures including the Aztec and Maya, stretching back several thousand years. It’s made of basalt and is used widely in Mexican cooking. Other Native American nations use mortars carved into the bedrock to grind acorns and other nuts. Many such depressions can be found in their territories.

Good mortar and pestle-making materials must be hard enough to crush the substance rather than be worn away by it. They cannot be too brittle either, or they will break during the pounding and grinding. The material should also be cohesive, so that small bits of the mortar or pestle do not mix in with the ingredients. Smooth and non-porous materials are chosen that will not absorb or trap the substances being ground.

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