My favorite kitchen accessory of late is my mortar and pestle. I've been pulverizing just about everything I come across: bay leaves, cumin and fennel seeds, cloves, peppercorns, tsien tsien and sanaam peppers. Now I just need to find a good way to clean it (charnushka has left a heavy black residue). I've read that you can use plain old sand. I wonder how well (fresh) kitty litter will work? I might give it a shot tonight.
I want to say that my new George Foreman grill is my second favorite, but so far I'm not terribly impressed. It handled the peppers and tomatoes well on the first night, but the tandoori chicken was WAY too dry last night. I'm thinking that I probably cooked it for too long.
06 April 2008
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I think the sand might work better, because the granules providing the friction against the stuck bits will be smaller. You'll get more stuff off the pestle with less work. And kitty litter might hurt your fingers!
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, I never even thought of trying to clean my mortar and pestle. This, I use it almost exclusively for peanuts. (I recently got a hand mixer so I can grind up moss to propagate. Whee!) Let me know how your mortar cleaning trial goes.
I hope you are well.