This beautiful mortar-pestle 3.5kg is extremely effective, the end of the pestle and mortar is grainy background also, suddenly vigorous wrist in 5 towers pepper as you lower end in a mill! My cardamom seeds used to indian food idem, they are quickly transformed into a fine powder fragrant. Very easy to wash, simply run it under warm soapy water, odors do not encrusting lot, I use it for garlic as well as Sichuan pepper carefree. A beautiful object to traditional aesthetics for its cuisine. I unfortunately takes away one star because looking on the packaging it says "made in china" ... and that I do not like.