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  2. Mortar and pestle - Wikipedia

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    A mortar and pestle is a set of two simple tools used to prepare ingredients or substances by crushing and grinding them into a fine paste or powder in the kitchen, laboratory, and pharmacy. The mortar ( / ˈ m ɔːr t ər / ) is characteristically a bowl, typically made of hardwood, metal, ceramic , or hard stone such as granite .

  3. Pounded yam - Wikipedia

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    A plate of food; pounded yam and soup. Pounded yam (Yoruba: Iyán, Hausa: sakwara, Igbo: Utara-ji) is a Nigerian swallow or Okele food. [1] [2] It is commonly prepared by pounding boiled yam with mortar and pestle [3] [4] Pounded yam is similar to mashed potatoes but heavier in consistency.

  4. Homogenizer - Wikipedia

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    The mortar and pestle, already used for thousands of years, is a standard tool even in modern laboratories. More modern solutions are based on blender type instruments, bead mills , ultrasonic treatment (also sonication ), rotor-stator mechanical, high pressure, and many other physical forces.

  5. Ground stone - Wikipedia

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    This pair of tools is called a mortar and pestle. The material would be placed into the mortar and the pestle would be moved and pressed into the mortar to grind the material into a fine powder. This process could be used for medicine and cooking. The mortar and pestle are still used today for many cooking recipes.

  6. Rice pounder - Wikipedia

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    This method involves dropping a large heavy, loose pestle directly on the rice. Dheki (a foot-operated wooden rice pounder) in Chhattisgarh Village, India. A rice pounder is an agricultural tool, a simple machine that is commonly used in Southeast Asia to dehull rice or to turn rice into rice flour.

  7. File:Wooden rice mortar 3.jpg - Wikipedia

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    English: Wooden mortar and pestle found in the rice loft on Briars Plantation, John's Island (Charleston County), South Carolina. From the personal collection of the (anonymous) owner. From the personal collection of the (anonymous) owner.

  8. Central Mass. Food Trucks: Not the same ol' grind at Mortal ...

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    Owners Dan Solis and Leslie Cardenas in their food truck, Mortar and Pestle. This is the latest in a summer series on Central Mass. food trucks — with a look at the people at the wheel and the ...

  9. Metate - Wikipedia

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    This action consists of a horizontal grinding motion that differs from the vertical crushing motion used in a mortar and pestle. The depth of the bowl varies, though they are typically not deeper than those of a mortar; deeper metate bowls indicate either a longer period of use or greater degree of activity (i.e., economic specialization).