Review on Kota Japanese Marble Mortar and Pestle Grinder for Spices, Seasonings, Pastes, Pestos, and Guacamole by Donna Taflinger

We had to replace our mortar and pestle and have been looking for a long time. Our current marble is about 25 years old, its shell is smaller and the base of the pestle is much larger, but it cracked from time to time. I've always been put off by reviews of many new marble sets and haven't found one I like - until now. I chose this white marble set, hoping the pestle wouldn't be too small to grind up our vitamin supplements. , and was concerned about how much bigger this set is than our old one. Well I have to say there are absolutely no disappointments with this set. This is a beautiful white marble with a touch of black/grey, the base of the pestle and the bottom of the mortar bowl are slightly rough in texture, which makes it very easy to crush the additives, and there was no marble dust. As a precaution, I ground up some white rice before using it for the first time, but as it turned out, that really wasn't necessary. The set was packaged very well and arrived undamaged. I would definitely consider it as a gift for someone.