I love cooking equipment. There are some great tools out there!

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My Indian wet-dry grinder has two large granite stones, runs on a 1/4 horsepower motor, and can grind up to 2 litres (half a gallon) at a time. It grinds anything: whole dry spices; garlic, ginger, and onions; spinach; meat; banana skins (that was their demo/sales-pitch at the shop in Trivandrum); anything. I often use it to make dosa batter from soaked rice and lentils (for masala dosa - yum). With the motor it weighs about 30kg. I mailed it home (without motor) along with another 35kg of cooking equipment. Back in Canada I received three 20kg packages on the same day... five months after I posted them!

A cool Indian stainless steel pressure pan.

Stainless steel Indian spice box. Keeps spices fresh...

I use two of these large (4 liter) propane rice cookers at many festivals. I also have a 3.6 liter electric cooker too. (18,400 yen equals about 200.00 $US)