Mortar and Pestle

Mortar and Pestle, one of the important things in Indonesian kitchen. Very useful to crush, grind and mix your spice. Good quality pestle and mortar must be hard enough to crush your spice. They can’t be too little or too small. You need more space to grind your spice.

So, this is the guidelines that you can use to make a choice of good and quality product:

• It must be hard enough
• Look out for the material. If you need to reduce the spice to a very fine paste, use the granite ones, they are strong and very suitable for this kind of job. Porcelain mortals are not suitable, they can’t grind as find as the ceramic type.
• The surface of the ceramic mortar and pestle has to be smooth and non porous.

One thing I have to say, the granite ones is mostly more expensive than the porcelain ones, but I can guarantee you that you have a solid and reliable product if you choose for the granite ones.

These are just guidelines, the choose is yours, and also it depends on your needs.