[Sca-cooks] mortar and pestle questions

[Nick Sasso]

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Long pepper. I get ground galengal instead of whole, but the long pepper
is still in the little mini-pine cone. I break them into pieces as I can
and then grind them. Maybe I'm just wimpy. :-(

'Lainie  > > > > > >

Not at all period, but I simply fire up my giant electric coffee grinder.
It's the model that you often see in coffee isles at the grocery stores.  I
run through 8 oz of cones in about 6 seconds.  Clean up using rice through
the grinder.  Got it for less than $100 on eBay, and it is a work horse when
it comes to spice.  I run a couple lbs of grains as well as longh pepper at
a time . . . I use them in my pizzeria sauce recipe, as well as other stuff.

niccolo difrancesco
(I don't recommend rushing up to the grocery to grind your spices, though
<eg>