Mortars

[Nat_ka]

Nat_ka , I can't make a high-quality photo of the mortar box. Very reflective. The name of the company is STOHA DESIGN, Germany.





And now I really want a container for storing greens.

[Lissa]

Lissaand I look at her. And the one that has the same shape, but for 175 hryvnia, is it much less? Does the cost depend only on the size or on the color of the marble? I also liked this one. She is very small?

[Lissa]

Lissaand I look at her. And the one that has the same shape, but for 175 hryvnia, is it much less? Does the cost depend only on the size or on the color of the marble? I also liked this one. She is very small?

I realized that the price depends only on the model and size. The main thing is that the area of ​​the pistil is large. I'll go this week and see. I will report on the results later.

[Lissa]

Lissaand I look at her. And the one that has the same shape, but for 175 hryvnia, is it much less? Does the cost depend only on the size or on the color of the marble? I also liked this one. She is very small?

Freken Bock, also saw such mortars. But inside there is a white coating, like chalk (after all, there is a matte surface after processing) and I was interested - will all this disappear after washing and working with it, because it is very taken if you try it with your hand?

But inside there is a white coating, like chalk (after all, there is a matte surface after processing) and I was interested - will all this disappear after washing and working with it, because it is very taken if you try it with your hand?

These mortars are of course very attractive! I looked at similar ones in our Eurodom, but I also had a similar thought. I remember in childhood they played the classics with a marble cue ball, if there was no chalk at hand, you could try and draw with a cue ball, so I think if in a mortar and pestle, with a certain pressure and friction, probably part of the marble goes to spices? Or is it just me? And it was very difficult to move away from the counter with mortars, they were so pretty and different sizes

[Lissa]

Lissaand I look at her. And the one that has the same shape, but for 175 hryvnia, is it much less? Does the cost depend only on the size or on the color of the marble? I also liked this one. She is very small?

Freken Bock, I have this marble mortar GIPFEL 5453
bought for 175 UAH before the New Year


It is, according to my concepts, average in size, but there are not so many marble sizes. If necessary, I can measure it today and say the size.

It is very convenient to keep it on your knees and pestle it, like meditation
Herbs grinds well, cardamom, but the garlic in marble just slipped, with a fork, and it would be easier to crush. I think the peas cannot be suppressed in it, they will just fly out, the notch on the pestle and inside the mortar is not very rough

In this regard, ceramic is more rough, but they are breakable.
I probably courted a German one (before buying my own), I took everything in my hands and understood that she was terribly rattling and ringing and that kotsut her - just to spit, and she didn’t cost 180 UAH in any way

As for the dust from marble - I tried to make the dust by rubbing in a bare mortar - it doesn't work, I probably need to hammer it harder with a pestle to knock it out, but I don't have enough strength

Girls, why are these mortars? Several times I stood at the counter with mortars, I even had a desire to buy, but since I didn't know why I needed it, I managed to resist.

[Boo Boo]

Boo Boo my mortar is not as fashionable as that of girls - the most ordinary porcelain (chemically inert) from the lab. equipment .. (by the way, also inexpensive) for a very long time, several years. I constantly use it: pour coriander with caraway seeds for bread, for example .. other spices are also in it.I used to grind garlic with salt, but now I don’t do it - I have it only for dry spices, so that it doesn’t get saturated with the garlic smell.

Somehow I had to crush the pills - also in it

Girls, why are these mortars? Several times I stood at the counter with mortars, I even had a desire to buy, but since I didn't know why I needed it, I managed to resist.

Meditate with herbs and spices! And the smell ...!

[Boo Boo]

Girls, why are these mortars? Several times I stood at the counter with mortars, I even had a desire to buy, but since I didn't know why I needed it, I managed to resist.

Boo Boo, in principle, a mortar can even be considered a luxury, that is, it is something without which you can live peacefully.
But I had an acute desire to mix small pinches of herbs and see what comes of it, the process of grinding itself gives pleasure at the tactile and olfactory level

[Boo Boo]

Boo Boo
Somehow I had to crush the pills - also in it

In general, mortars were popular among pharmacists.
I think that marble tablets would crumble nicely, provided that they are not balls

[Lissa]

And me, and me today Lissa I bought such a mortar with a pestle-fungus! We are waiting for a liaison. I'm going to grind peppers in it for soups and sauces. Because if you twist the mill over the pan, the pepper stops pouring due to the steam. And to be honest, I just Qween I was envious, I just rave with her mortar. In Gipfel, I saw only metal mortars.

[julifera]

juliferaBelieve it or not, I have this marble mortar in my kitchen, almost a necessity.

Qween, of course I will believe

While she is not in the house, it seems like you can do without it, but as you get used to the mortar, you still have no idea how you could live without it before

[Freken Bock]

Freken Bock, I want such a mortar - tell me, please, what size is it? Is this the one for 195, or 175 UAH?

Outside diameter 12.5 cm, inner diameter 9.5 cm. Height 6 cm. Weight 1900: mortar 900 and pestle 1 kg. 175 hryvnia. The price depends on the color of the marble, as I understand it. My gray one. Black, green are more expensive.

The most expensive green mortars, such as malachite. I took everything in my hands. I liked it more for 175 UAH. There is a little less (125 UAH) and a little more. But they say the price still depends on the delivery.

Freken Bock, Lissa - thanks for the answers Freken Bock, how do you use it - sufficient volume, isn't it small? I just want a gray one, I just can't decide whether to take this or more ...

Tell us for those in the tank, what are you doing in mortars? I understand what it is for, but I have not found any application at home. There is a new mortar in my closet, I think it is completely unnecessary device, maybe I am mistaken?

[Lisss's]

Lisss's , the mortar is just right in size, not at all small. The last word in this matter, of course, for Lissa, she saw all the mortars live. And here's what I understood from a conversation with the manager. Mortars with a pestle-fungus have two sizes, articles 695 L (mine) and 695, it is smaller. There is a mortar, the biggest, so I was told, as I understood, this one. Costs 280 hryvnia. Its diameter is 17 cm. But I do not approve of such a pestle.

Zubastik, I grind in it specifically, pepper, cumin, spices (for gingerbread), dry herbs for sauces. All this oozes stupefying aromas and the process itself drives me crazy: the mortar is smooth, pretty, heavy, so it rumbles cool in the process! The husband and children come to the sound and ask for a rub. My husband, who considers all my acquisitions a whim, took the mortar almost immediately, despite the wild (I will not hide) its price.

Greetings, bakers.
I hasten to share my joy with you. Today, cleaning in the closet, I found (by accident, honestly) a neatly packed mortar, my beauty is standing, waiting for March 8, she didn't have time to see it well, my hubby "spotted", pretended not to notice, let him think it was a surprise. She's so cool ... marbled, black and white.Straight and I don’t know if I’ll wait for the holiday, I’m happy like a first grader. Can't my brain be all right? Well, how was it necessary to get it with your Wishlist? Or maybe he dreams that I will sit in this mortar and fly away to nafik? I will not wait, in extreme cases I will walk in the evenings, breathe fresh air !!!

Once I, like BooBu, was perplexed: why are all of you girls getting sick of mortars? I live without her, and it seems normal. And here we inherited a mortar and pestle from our mother-in-law. Plain, "old-fashioned", white, it seems, ceramic. Very heavy. And it turned out that this is such a wonderful thing! Although I can't say what is central to the kitchen. Any spices grind very well, but freshly ground spices smell! I would have known - I would have bought it myself a long time ago ...

And I have a heavy iron mortar. I love her very much, but you cannot grind herbs and garlic with oil in it, it is suitable only for dry products. I once even made powdered sugar in it (while there was no coffee grinder) without straining.



And I dream about this


Girls, Ukrainian women! Maybe someone has met such mortars on sale, tell me, please. So I want to get this mortar, there are no direct forces.

And why exactly marble Marble is, in principle, a porous and soft material
I have such

I am very satisfied, and you can buy in Ukraine.

I recently bought this one. I like it very much, it is small, it takes up little space.

And I, recently, bought this in "Metro":

but, the cherished one, I still want!

Oh, how many mortars And is there a job for each?

Well yes. Cast iron is suitable for dry products, and in marble and fresh herbs, and garlic ... But in general, oh ... I love all sorts of things, just some kind of disease.

This is the best mortar:

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She's probably 100 years old already.
Yes, I remember how I pounded poppy in it as a child.
That "pestle" or whatever it is called, could not be lifted. But the poppy was super!

And I dream about this


Girls, Ukrainian women! Maybe someone has met such mortars on sale, tell me, please. So I want to get this mortar, there are no direct forces.

this is a French designer's thing. For the first time I saw this at Julia Vysotskaya in the kitchen in the program "Eat at home" can be ordered through ebay
The price is, of course, 143 euros (and this is for an average), excluding the postage (and it will be decently worth a little thing)

Girls, which pistil is more convenient - a fungus or a thin one?

more convenient something in between

it seems to me a fungus ... And design .. oh-oh-oh ... but beautiful ..

I have an ordinary mortar from IKEA, medium size, the issue price is 300 rubles a penny. I didn't have time to get sick with a mortar at that time, but I already knew that this little thing was not cheap. And since I get to Ikea, at best, once a year (we don't have it), I saw it and grabbed it without looking. The pestle is too narrow, it would be wider it would be better.
I grind dried zest in it - a nice thing.

Girls, which pistil is more convenient - fungus or thin?

It seems to me "fungus", from under a thin one, something is sure to fly out onto the table

As for the dust from marble - I tried to make the dust by rubbing in a bare mortar - it doesn't work, I probably need to pound harder with a pestle to knock it out, but I don't have enough strength

Comrades, tell me how to be! I bought myself a marble mortar the other day, but it's worth making a couple of circles with a pestle along the bottom, as well as marble dust on the pestle and at the bottom of the mortar! I already rubbed coarse salt in it, and cereals, and washed it - all the same, dust appears! Somehow I would not want this dust to get into spices and food .... Who else has met with this? Is it just mine that is crumbling?

[Flora]

Flora, probably depends on the manufacturer.

The fact is that I am my marble mortar Gipfel generally abandoned, and just because she did not rub anything at all, even the dust cannot be shaken out of it, the pestle just slips stupidly and that's it.
Wasted money, my dear was ...

And there is a small Chinese low mortar - it rubs great and there is no dust.
So I don't even know.
You probably need to watch it alive when buying, try to rub it with a pestle in a circle, if a lot of traces remain, then
If there are no traces - too
My baby was giving a faint trace.

[julifera]

julifera, you can look at your mortar. I am also suffering what to buy. While I stopped at this
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What do you say for this mortar?

[julifera]

julifera, you can look at your mortar. I also suffer which one to buy. While I stopped at this
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What do you say for this mortar?

natalisha_31 - I don't know what to say for such little steps ...

The fact is that FrekenBok I bought a similar one and was very pleased (there is a photo on 1 page and a review).
But then in 2009 there were only mortars, but now there are so many of them.
Judging by your photo, this is the encoding of the Granchio company, if I'm not mistaken, I didn't even hold them in my hands.
But that's not even the point, I then caught fire with such a pestle, and when I took it in my hands with a mortar I realized that it was not mine, it was completely out of my hand, I could not work for them, at all ...

Therefore, I can only share tips for choosing a mortar with a regular pestle.
The pistil should be:
- necessarily NOT short, a moderately long pestle lies comfortably and securely in the hand;
- widened enough to the bottom;
- the bottom of the pestle can be of different roundness, and it is necessary to check the adherence of the pestle to the bottom and barrels of the mortar in each particular mortar. That is, it is clear that if the pestle touches only one point (that is, it is very convex and pointed in the center), then it will be badly frayed.

Here is my baby, whom I love very much, she walked in a box without special markings, although it was China, but it turned out to be the most, most comfortable:



I also have stone a huge heavy mortar from Fakelman, it is good to grind greens in it (because marble does not tolerate an acidic environment), or to work with large things.



And here I wrote about Gipfelevskaya, who did not understand:
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=18969.0

[julifera]

julifera, you can look at your mortar. I also suffer which one to buy. While I stopped at this
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What do you say for this mortar?

I have one. BUT! One moment. I had to adjust it a little in the process, the baby is imperfectly fitted in diameter and slows down in some planes. Therefore, it is advisable to scroll in the store so that it scrolls freely, smoothly, without brakes. Well, the truth is, her husband worked a little, and even a file at some points, and right now he is rubbing it herself. I like. Weighty, and no need to lean ...
And there is a tiny one, from a laboratory set, also made of stone. Diameter no more than 4.5-5 cm and the same tiny pistil-fungus. Also pretty good. I rub cardamom in it.

[Inuse]

Hurray, and I stumbled. For that special thanks Inuse... Now I have such a mortar

And now I want to tell you how my mortar got to me. So she bought me Inusik, mortar price Mariupol | And I asked her to send it to me by a road carrier Deliveri, to which Inna agreed. The girls sent it to me on April 3 and indicated the arrival date on April 4 in the declaration. So I arrive at the carrier's warehouse on the 4th, but my mortar is gone. They say that such a package did not arrive. So I call Inna, she calls her transport company, they say that they sent her on the 3rd, it turns out that she left Mariupol and disappeared. We contacted the security service of Deliveri, they began to look for my package and call Inna. But it turned out that the car arrived at the transit warehouse in Donetsk and there it, along with another package in which the documents were sent, were sent in another direction to who knows where. But then they found my mortar and documents on the security cameras. And today I received it. This is the story that happened to my mortar. From this it follows that in the warehouses of the road carrier Deliveri, scattered people work. All is well that ends well. But the sediment remained

And these are mine (one is not in the photo, the largest):

[Nat_ka]

Nat_ka, beautiful mortars. And what is the smallest made of?

small, she's so short - porcelain or something that looks like tea cups.

So it is necessary to pound carefully in it so that it does not split?

So it is necessary to pound carefully in it so that it does not split?

No, she's not thin. I remembered the right word "ceramic". It is good to grind in it, it is for garlic-spicy mixtures.

And I have such a rarity. inherited from my grandmother. I thought she was 100 years old. but on the bottom there is an icon similar to OTK. So the Soviet period is a little thing. Weighs 2.80 and 1 kg pestle. copper. I just have it as a memory. do not use . But the grandmother broke lump sugar in it. Once this flashed in some movie. Maybe someone else lives like this in the house. with history ... a

Well, then I will boast of my mortar. It is so nravitstsaaa to me in color. I really like to grind herbs in it and grind nuts. But I don't risk garlic with oil. It seems to me that then the smell cannot be removed.



The pistil is the same on both sides.

And I have such a rarity. inherited from my grandmother. Maybe someone else lives like this in the house. with history ...

I almost have such a mortar! I will find it - I will take a photo, because I packed all the dishes for the time of repair in boxes.
Well, of course, I’m not copper and she’s only about 30 years old, but it looks like it. According to my mother’s order, they were grinding at a defense plant (before that, there men worked for themselves, "to the left"). There is also a wooden one - there I am using eggshells.

[kava]

Well, then I will boast of my mortar. It is so nravitstsaaa to me in color. I really like to grind herbs in it and grind nuts. But I don't risk garlic with oil. It seems to me that then the smell cannot be removed.

kava , do not be afraid, it is washed from garlic, there is not even a hint of smell. In my marble, I mix garlic with coarse sea salt, dilute with cold boiled water + olive oil and serve this dressing on the table right in a mortar (without a pestle) to potato pancakes.

Girls, advise. What can you say about such a mortar. Yesterday I nadybala and liked the price - 49gr.
She is small.

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If I am not mistaken, this mortar is carved from Pakistani onyx, a semi-precious, very soft and pliable stone in processing. I love this ornamental stone, I have an onyx table lamp base, as well as a desk writing set, figurines, vases, large and small candelabra candlesticks. But as a mortar I wouldn't even take it for free. It is almost like soap in density. Buy a porcelain mortar, because you need a sturdy workhorse, not a museum piece in a display case.

Better to buy a porcelain mortar, porcelain baked in a muffle oven becomes very hard and strong. You will grind very quickly only the spices, and not the walls of the stone mortar. Why are sculptures made of marble? But because it is relatively easy to cut and it is simply unnecessary to cut off. The porcelain mortar has no competitors at all! The pestle can be of any shape that you like, and take that one. Take a medium sized mortar, not large, not small. So that you can grind 2-3 tablespoons of spices, no more. In a too large mortar, you need to apply a lot of physical strength, in a small one you cannot grind 2-3 tablespoons of spices at a time. Therefore, for the simultaneous and single grinding of spices under the female strength of the hands, it is a mortar of medium size that is suitable.