Pill Crusher - 304 Food Grade Stainless Steel Mortar and Pestle Medicine Grinder Set - Non-Slip Splitter to Easily Crush Medicine Pills Tablets Vitamins to Fine Powder for Adults, Seniors, Dogs, Pets

The bowl size is large enough to crush the pill and not have it "jump out" of the bowl while doing so. I also like that it's stainless and cleans well. I wish it came with a small brush

Works great

Great product! Just the right amount of weight to it. Not too heavy not too light.It is stainless steel well made!

Among ways to crush pills, metal pestle and mortar is the best I have found. The steel prevents small particles from getting trapped, and it's easy to get all the medicine out by scraping with a spoon. It is also easy to clean. As a bonus is it not heavy either.

It’s worth the money, love it!

I grind a lot of pills for an aging parent who can't swallow medium and large pills anymore. I tried this after the ceramic burr grinder of 3 years became dull and stopped grinding.it takes about the same time to pound pills as it did to grind them. The mortar and grinder probably retained to same amount of the pills. The mortar is simpler and its efficiency probably won't degrade like the grinder did.4 stars because the product absolutely crushes pills as advertised.Not 5 stars because of cheap quality. Like other reviews said. It's just concrete poured into a thin metal mold with a super flimsy sliver of cover on the bottom.If your goal is to crush or pulverize pills and you don't care about style points, this will work for you.If you're looking for a high quality product, something that brings joy to your counter top, or something that scores style points while you crush pills, THIS IS NOT IT.

For context: my dog gets two medications, both of which she hates the taste of. They both come in tablets, one of which is chewable, so I crush that one and put them both into a gel cap so she can have one pill instead of two, and doesn't have to taste either of them.To crush the tablet, I had been using the pill crusher that was available at my local chain drugstore. It requires unscrewing the cap of the device, putting the pill in, then screwing it down to crush the pill. (At this point I would screw and unscrew it several times while trying to shift the pill around inside the device to get it to crush better, but it always came out in grains of various sizes.) Then I would unscrew it again to pour the powder/grains out. I have been able to get the medicine into the gel cap and get it to stay closed, but it has never quite closed down all the way with both pills in there.Today I prepared the next week's worth of pills, using this mortar and pestle crusher for the first time. I love that I don't have to screw and unscrew anything repeatedly; just drop the pill in and crush it, then pour it out. It crushes easily and completely, and much more quickly than the other one. You can see in the photos how much more finely the powder is ground in the gel cap on the right than in the one on the left, which I had prepared with the old crusher.Some other reviewers have complained that the crushed medication sticks to the inside of the mortar, and that you don't get all of the powder out when you pour. This is true, I guess, but not more true of this device than of my old crusher. It may be that since this one is more effective at crushing the pills, more of the medication can stick (since it's actually powder, not big grains) but it's also a lot easier to reach in with my finger and brush the powder off of this smooth surface than it would have been with the jagged, toothy surfaces of the old crusher. I might pick up some kind of brush, like a paintbrush or makeup brush, to help me with brushing the powder out of the mortar. But even without a brush to use, I'm much more pleased with this crusher than the old one. In the photos you can see for yourself that I was able to brush it pretty clean with just my finger.You can also see in the photos that with the medication ground so finely, I can get the gel cap to close farther, which will make these easier for my tiny 7.5 lbs dog to swallow. That's a benefit I hadn't even considered before, but it will make both of our lives just that much easier, even if she doesn't appreciate it as I'm poking my finger down her throat!

Weighty, brushed stainless steel