How to Pick the Best Mortar and Pestle | Serious Eats

For grinding foods to transform their texture and release their full aroma and flavor, nothing beats a good mortar and pestle. Today, the mortar and pestle remains a crucial tool in culinary traditions around the world, and it deserves to be treated as an essential in every kitchen. Not just because it served our ancestors so well, but because it continues to do what no other item in the kitchen does: smashing fibers and cells apart to fundamentally transform their texture and release their full aroma and flavor. That's something a blade can't ever do as well.

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