2006-10-19 03:05:40 · 15 answers · asked by xx_siobhan_doc_xx 1 in Local Businesses ➔ United Kingdom ➔ Glasgow
A Pestle is a club-shaped hand tool for grinding substances in a mortar. Or, a heavy bar that moves vertically for crushing ores
2006-10-19 03:15:13 · answer #1 · answered by Scribbler 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Refined versions of the original mortar and pestle are used in kitchens all over the world to prepare pastes and sauces. They are also used for grinding herbs and spices. This is an ancient device which was originally used for grinding grain. The grain was placed in a shallow depression in a stone, the mortar, and then pounded with a stone, the pestle.
2006-10-19 10:08:06 · answer #2 · answered by richard_beckham2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A 'pestle' is a stick which is used by a chemist to grind substances, into a bowl called a 'mortar'. Hence the name 'mortar and pestle'.
2006-10-19 10:09:55 · answer #3 · answered by mikers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The pestle is the stick for grinding stuff in the mortar.
2006-10-19 10:15:08 · answer #4 · answered by Andrea P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a small, club shaped stone, used in tandem with a mortar (a bowl shaped stone) to grind herbs, medicines, etc. Can be used in both culinary and medicinal fields.
The symbol for a pharmacy in the USA is a mortar and pestle.
2006-10-19 10:08:21 · answer #5 · answered by Disgruntled Biscuit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its either a bowl that you grind things in using a hard object...............or maybe its the grinder.
Funny, I often refer to mortar and pestle but I'm not sure which is which. Must be old age!
2006-10-19 10:17:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Part of a set...mortar & pestle, a cup & grinding tool that fits into the cup.
2006-10-19 10:13:49 · answer #7 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pestle is like the others explained to you. Zulu's also used them to grind their mealies etc. Not quite shaped like the ones used in pharmacys etc but a huge rock with a hollow in the middle and they would use another round rock to grind the mealies[maze] into a fine powder .
2006-10-19 10:12:15 · answer #8 · answered by Duisend-poot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have a gigantic, antique pestle (about 4 ft. tall!), inherited from my grandmother, via two old ladies from the 1800's. It looks colonial...I wonder WHAT it could be used to grind?
2006-10-19 10:14:21 · answer #9 · answered by Gwynneth Of Olwen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the pestle is a stone used to crush spices usually for cooking in a "morter and pestle" the morter being the stone bowl holding the spices.
2006-10-19 10:10:54 · answer #10 · answered by B-ROCK 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋