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The original food processor, minus the blades, the noise, and the plastic taste.
means A two-piece grinding tool — a sturdy bowl and a club-shaped grinder — used to crush, grind, or blend solids into powders or pastes.
from Both words come through Old French from Latin. 'Mortarium' meant a bowl for pounding, and also gave us 'mortar' the building paste, since the same bowls were used to mix it. 'Pestle' comes from Latin 'pistillum,' meaning a pounder or crusher, from the verb 'pinsere,' to pound — a root it shares distantly with words like 'pigment' and 'piston,' all tracing back to the basic act of crushing or stamping something into shape.
- age
- predates written language by millennia
- physics
- grinding beats chopping for releasing flavor oils
- pharmacy symbol
- still the logo of drugstores worldwide
- material matters
- granite outlasts marble, which chips and stains