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Watching my mother painstakingly grind different spices for cooking such as nutmeg, peppercorns, anise, and nuts with the traditional mortar and pestle makes me also want to pant with exhaustion. Aside from being time consuming, the ground spices almost always do not reach the desired consistency which leaves my mother complaining and wishing for a magical hand who could perfectly grind those spices. Out of curiosity, I asked a friend who studied culinary arts if there are any other alternatives aside from using a mortar and pestle for grinding, and he suggested an electric waring spice grinder.

Being kitchen utensil-ignorant, he explained to me the basic features of the electric spice grinder. It has stainless-steel blades which can grind all types of spices – from capsicum to nuts. A so-called “pulse actuation feature allows the user to choose the consistency of the ground spices. It comes with a transparent lid so you can make sure that you have achieved the desired fineness or coarseness of the spices. It even has two extra bowls, which comes in handy if you are grinding two different spices. Its powerful motor is comparable to the speed of an ultracentrifuge – about 19000 rpm, which can easily grind spices into fine powder in a matter of seconds, which is a little scary.

My mother could really benefit from this electric spice grinder. However, she has to settle to the plain old mortar and pestle for now. Maybe next Christmas she would finally get her wish.