Food grinding tools

equipment consisting of a bowl in which substances are ground using a pestle

upright|thumb|The basic anatomy of a millstone. This is a runner stone; a bedstone would not have the "Spanish Cross" into which the supporting millrind fits.

thumb|Disc quern made of basalt stone thumb|Nepali women using quern-stones to grind grains

thumb|Metate, mano and corn, all circa 12th century AD, from Chaco Canyon, USA thumb|Mano, metate and bowl of corn. Museum display of Ancestral Pueblo artifacts at [[Mesa Verde National Park.]] A metate (or mealing stone) is a type or variety of quern, a ground stone tool used for processing grain and seeds. In traditional Mesoamerican cultures, metates are typically used by women who would grind nixtamalized maize and other organic materials during food preparation (e.g., making tortillas). Similar artifacts have been found in other regions, such as the sil-batta in Bihar and Jharkhand, India

industrial mill that extracts oil from seeds or vegetable material

thumb|A makitra - notice the horizontal grooves on the inside thumb|A small makitra and a grinding stick next to it A () is a big clay mixing bowl with a rough surface. With the help of a special (usually wooden, rarely porcelain) grinding stick with a ball-shaped end (called makohin in Ukraine), a makitra can be used for creaming cake batter, eggs with sugar, buttercream, quark for cheese cake, and poppy seeds for kutia. It is perhaps most used in Eastern European kitchens, for example in Poland and Ukraine.

thumb|350px|Molcajete and tejolote with peppers to be ground A molcajete (; Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl molcaxitl) and tejolote (from Nahuatl texolotl) are stone tools, the traditional Central American and especially, the Mexican version of the mortar and pestle used for grinding various food products.

utensil for grinding herbs

thumb|Small sized suribachi with black sesame seeds in it, and a medium-sized surikogi made out of wood

hand-held stone tool used with a metate or quern to process or grind food by hand

Japanese mortar used to pound rice or millet