Timmah! Posted January 4 Member ID: 26443 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 38 Topic Count: 501 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 6181 Content Per Day: 2.26 Reputation: 10622 Achievement Points: 52816 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 121 Joined: 11/01/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 09/26/1971 Device: Android Posted January 4 They said larger is better upon perusal. So I got this 5-cup capacity mortar & pestle. It's granite. It weighs close to 20 lbs. Good deal @ ~$35.00 Guacamole will be its maiden mission. Handsome. Utilitarian. major-mark63, Intruder and WeednFeed 3 Awards
Timmah! Posted January 4 Member ID: 26443 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 38 Topic Count: 501 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 6181 Content Per Day: 2.26 Reputation: 10622 Achievement Points: 52816 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 121 Joined: 11/01/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 09/26/1971 Device: Android Author Posted January 4 Link to product for those interested. Comie Mortar and Pestle Set,Heavy... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BDRDS9SF?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share Awards
TBB Posted January 5 Member ID: 989 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 290 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 20309 Content Per Day: 3.63 Reputation: 22427 Achievement Points: 146933 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 387 Joined: 01/07/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 15 hours ago Birthday: 01/27/1946 Device: Windows Posted January 5 Just don't do what this guy did - used to much of his stash to fight of the boredom Timmah! 1 Awards
WeednFeed Posted January 5 Member ID: 433 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 42 Topic Count: 365 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 2637 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 4218 Achievement Points: 26687 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 48 Joined: 09/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 05/28/1957 Device: Macintosh Posted January 5 The instructions seem to hint to putting somewhat of a seasoning on the surface. Not washing it only rinsing with water. Sounds great. My dad had a TEAK pestle made for his garlic sauce, no bowl. He loved it and used it for 40 years. I think one of my brothers have it now. Timmah! 1 Awards
WeednFeed Posted January 5 Member ID: 433 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 42 Topic Count: 365 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 2637 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 4218 Achievement Points: 26687 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 48 Joined: 09/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 05/28/1957 Device: Macintosh Posted January 5 (edited) Try this on your fried chicken and home cut fries. Big tradition in my family. crush as many garlic cloves as you think you need. Salt the garlic after it's crushed. Let it stand for 15-20 min. poor your favorite oil over the garlic and keep stirring (some folks use a blender) add fresh lemon juice pepper to taste. Keep stirring until the oil becomes opaque. I just use a mason jar and shake it. Let it stand for a bit to let the flavors combine. poor that over chicken and home made fresh cut fries. We also use it for salad dressing. A lot of Lebanese add tahini ground sesame seeds/ We don't like it with tahini. It will separate but just shake the bottle for a few seconds. @Timmah! I'm positive you will love. I don't have a recipe I've just been making it and tell by the look and taste. Edited January 5 by WeednFeed Timmah! 1 Awards
Timmah! Posted January 5 Member ID: 26443 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 38 Topic Count: 501 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 6181 Content Per Day: 2.26 Reputation: 10622 Achievement Points: 52816 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 121 Joined: 11/01/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 09/26/1971 Device: Android Author Posted January 5 37 minutes ago, WeednFeed said: Try this on your fried chicken and home cut fries. Big tradition in my family. crush as many garlic cloves as you think you need. Salt the garlic after it's crushed. Let it stand for 15-20 min. poor your favorite oil over the garlic and keep stirring (some folks use a blender) add fresh lemon juice pepper to taste. Keep stirring until the oil becomes opaque. I just use a mason jar and shake it. Let it stand for a bit to let the flavors combine. poor that over chicken and home made fresh cut fries. We also use it for salad dressing. A lot of Lebanese add tahini ground sesame seeds/ We don't like it with tahini. It will separate but just shake the bottle for a few seconds. @Timmah! I'm positive you will love. I don't have a recipe I've just been making it and tell by the look and taste. Will definitely try. Thanks! WeednFeed 1 Awards
Timmah! Posted January 5 Member ID: 26443 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 38 Topic Count: 501 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 6181 Content Per Day: 2.26 Reputation: 10622 Achievement Points: 52816 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 121 Joined: 11/01/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 09/26/1971 Device: Android Author Posted January 5 Apparently, I cleaned it thoroughly enough with a brush & reverse osmosis water, that the first iteration of seasoning by grinding wet, uncooked rice to a paste came away clean. Woot. Do this enough & you'd develop Popeye forearms. Looks like a mini cauldron. By the pricking of my thumb, something tasty this way comes. Awards
KiT Posted January 5 Member ID: 28853 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 12 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 34 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 59 Achievement Points: 308 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 06/21/21 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 12:19 AM Device: Windows Posted January 5 Nice mortar Timmah, how long did it took to grind the rice to a paste like that? Timmah! 1 Awards
WeednFeed Posted January 5 Member ID: 433 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 42 Topic Count: 365 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 2637 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 4218 Achievement Points: 26687 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 48 Joined: 09/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 05/28/1957 Device: Macintosh Posted January 5 Here is my quick cheater version. The potatoes are just baked with a coating of oil. You can see the garlic on the chicken. I only have a garlic crusher. I’d better get to work on the mortar and pestle Timmah! 1 Awards
Timmah! Posted January 5 Member ID: 26443 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 38 Topic Count: 501 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 6181 Content Per Day: 2.26 Reputation: 10622 Achievement Points: 52816 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 121 Joined: 11/01/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 09/26/1971 Device: Android Author Posted January 5 (edited) 1 hour ago, -AQ-KiT said: Nice mortar Timmah, how long did it took to grind the rice to a paste like that? About 20 minutes of vigorous grinding, mostly in a circular motion. When I was researching on culinary forums, a repeated suggestion was to get a large capacity mortar. Was a nice little workout for the forearms. Before the rice grinding, I vigorously scrubbed it with a brush & reverse osmosis water for a good 12 - 15 minutes. Bought an under-sink reverse osmosis 5-stage water filtration system a year ago & am very happy with the purchase. It's already paid for itself with the savings from not purchasing 5-gallon jug refills from the store & lugging them home every week. Will be sure to clean this mortar with r.o. water only, so no funky tap water residues mar my culinary exploits. Do you have a mortar & pestle? If so, what are your favorite & most frequent preparations? Edited January 5 by Timmah! elucidation Awards
Timmah! Posted January 5 Member ID: 26443 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 38 Topic Count: 501 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 6181 Content Per Day: 2.26 Reputation: 10622 Achievement Points: 52816 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 121 Joined: 11/01/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 09/26/1971 Device: Android Author Posted January 5 (edited) 8 hours ago, WeednFeed said: The instructions seem to hint to putting somewhat of a seasoning on the surface. Not washing it only rinsing with water. Sounds great. My dad had a TEAK pestle made for his garlic sauce, no bowl. He loved it and used it for 40 years. I think one of my brothers have it now. Yeah; the stated purpose of grinding uncooked rice to pulverization, until it comes away still white is to work the rice into the matrices & remove all granite dust & dislodge any remnant fine granite particles. Seeing as how I scrubbed the shit out of it with a stiff-bristled brush & reverse osmosis water for 15 minutes, until the water came away still clear- even then drinking from it to confirm no flavor- the pulverized rice paste came away still white first time. Interesting; never heard of a Teak wood pestle. Edited January 5 by Timmah! Awards
major-mark63 Posted January 5 Member ID: 23233 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 51 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3044 Content Per Day: 0.87 Reputation: 2291 Achievement Points: 24025 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/10/15 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 08/11/1963 Device: Windows Posted January 5 11 hours ago, Timmah! said: Apparently, I cleaned it thoroughly enough with a brush & reverse osmosis water, that the first iteration of seasoning by grinding wet, uncooked rice to a paste came away clean. Woot. Do this enough & you'd develop Popeye forearms. Looks like a mini cauldron. By the pricking of my thumb, something tasty this way comes. every thing except the pepsi seems to be good for health lol Timmah! 1 Awards
major-mark63 Posted January 5 Member ID: 23233 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 51 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3044 Content Per Day: 0.87 Reputation: 2291 Achievement Points: 24025 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/10/15 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 08/11/1963 Device: Windows Posted January 5 I hesitate to clic on this post at first , could have been a picture of your dick.. i frankly hesitae..lol Timmah! 1 Awards
Timmah! Posted January 5 Member ID: 26443 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 38 Topic Count: 501 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 6181 Content Per Day: 2.26 Reputation: 10622 Achievement Points: 52816 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 121 Joined: 11/01/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 09/26/1971 Device: Android Author Posted January 5 42 minutes ago, major-mark63 said: I hesitate to clic on this post at first , could have been a picture of your dick.. i frankly hesitae..lol Lol, I do believe genitalia pics are prohibited on our forums. major-mark63 1 Awards
KiT Posted January 6 Member ID: 28853 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 12 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 34 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 59 Achievement Points: 308 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 06/21/21 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 12:19 AM Device: Windows Posted January 6 Yes I have two, a small one in cast iron, i mainly use it for dry spice he is very efficient in small quantities. The bigger one is use for pesto and stuff like that. It did not come with instuction to season it so i probably ate some granit powder and stuff the first year hahaha Timmah! 1 Awards
KiT Posted January 6 Member ID: 28853 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 12 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 34 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 59 Achievement Points: 308 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 06/21/21 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 12:19 AM Device: Windows Posted January 6 On 1/4/2025 at 8:28 PM, WeednFeed said: Try this on your fried chicken and home cut fries. Big tradition in my family. crush as many garlic cloves as you think you need. Salt the garlic after it's crushed. Let it stand for 15-20 min. poor your favorite oil over the garlic and keep stirring (some folks use a blender) add fresh lemon juice pepper to taste. Keep stirring until the oil becomes opaque. I just use a mason jar and shake it. Let it stand for a bit to let the flavors combine. poor that over chicken and home made fresh cut fries. We also use it for salad dressing. A lot of Lebanese add tahini ground sesame seeds/ We don't like it with tahini. It will separate but just shake the bottle for a few seconds. @Timmah! I'm positive you will love. I don't have a recipe I've just been making it and tell by the look and taste. I will try that for sure Awards
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