To say it straight away, I am extremely satisfied with the mortar. However, he is visually not as smooth and dark as in the pictures, but much brighter and also outside rough. Only the pusher is smooth. At the processing, I can not fault, the inner surfaces are fine-brushed and the rounding is uniform, so that one does not miss any areas with the pestle. Also strange odors I could unpack not perceive only a fine layer of dust in the well, therefore I put the mortar before the first use again in the dishwasher, which he unscathed (now several times). Now for the grinding result: With the mortar you can really handle everything from pepper over dried herbs to fresh garlic for pesto making. After the grinding, can also be easily removed everything from the mortar, even moist Pesto can scratch without excessively hangs much. And as already described above: After use, it can also be placed well in the dishwasher. Finally, to the missing felt coasters that have been criticized in some reviews: The mortar is very difficult to be with me, he slips in use is not on the work surface and therefore scratched nothing. If you want to but it rather padded, can be in hardware store for less than 1 still plugging Filzkleber to get himself ;-).
