This is an excellent spice grinder with a sturdy, well fitted pestle. We got it for varied kitchen spices such as dried oregano and basil, fennel seeds, small flakes of cinnamon bark. It looks nice sitting out on the counter and is heavy enough so that if the cat pushes it onto the floor he really meant to do it.
It is perfect for its purpose but it is too tightly fitted and too small for grinding cornmeal, wheat flour and coffee. It will handle a couple of cardamom seeds but obviously won't grind a pound of them. All of these things need a bigger mortar and pestle, dedicated grinder or flour mill. I suppose one could grind flour with it but that would be like cutting their lawn with scissors; it will take a long time. Here is a better product for making flour: Nutrimill Home Grain Mill and one to make coffee: Cuisinart DBM-8 Supreme Grind Automatic Burr Mill (CCM-16PC1)
This spice grinder has a nice rough internal finish and something I really like: the machining marks on the mortar part are not entirely removed. This makes it better for grinding, though I presume marks will wear away in time since marble is a soft stone. I don't worry about traces of marble dust in my food since it is mostly calcium compounds which the human body treat in the same way as it does those expensive oyster shell calcium tablets we buy in the health food store.
Any varieties of stone objects sold as "marble" may be metamorphed limestone i.e. real marble, or microcrystalline un-metamorphed limestone. The two have geological difference but in a spice grinder the difference matters very little. I have no idea if this tool is marble or microcrystalline limestone, but it looks more like marble. And regardless of which one it actually is, if you soak it in vinegar, lemon juice or other acid you'll dissolve it just like the old marble statues in Italy are dissolving away under the effects of acid rain.
As an obsessive/compulsive note about color, ours had more grey and less white than the photo. I find the color more pleasing than the one pictured. The color should not be a precipitant for emotional problems in anyone who is aware that "white marble" normally has grey streaks and is sometimes all grey. White marble is "white" in the sense that it is "not pink" and "not black", if you follow that logic. If one is looking for pure milk white they should probably search for "alabaster" instead of "white marble", remembering that "alabaster" can refer to a marble, a limestone, sometimes an onyx, seldom a chalk but occasionally a dolomite.
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| material | Stoneware | Marble | Marble | Acacia Wood | Granite | Granite |
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