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a club that pretends it's a kitchen tool while it pulverizes everything you love
means A heavy, rounded tool used to crush, grind, or pound substances into powder or paste, typically against the inside of a bowl-shaped mortar.
from From Old French 'pestel', drawn from Latin 'pistillum', a little pounder, which traces back to the verb 'pinsere', to pound or crush. That same crushing root is a cousin of 'piston', which still slams up and down for a living, and lurks behind 'pistil', the flower part the early botanists thought resembled a tiny pestle standing in its bowl.
- ancient origin
- Used by humans over 35,000 years ago
- name root
- From Latin pistillum, meaning to pound
- flower namesake
- Pistil, the flower's center, shares this root
- still champion
- Outperforms blenders for fresh spice oils
- mortar partner
- Useless alone, like a hammer without nails
mortar and pestle — kitchen tool used for grinding spices and herbs, dating back to ancient egypt around 3000 bce
pharmaceutical mortar pestle — laboratory equipment used in pharmacies and apothecaries for grinding and mixing medicinal compounds