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Hi /ck/. I'm making hazelnut butter and I've got two questions for you:

How do I use a mortar and pestle? It's going alright so far but I've no clue if I'm doing it right (pushing the pestle into the stuff I'm grinding and then twisting it as I apply pressure, this was after some Skyrim-style pounding to get the nuts to break apart a bit).

Anything I can add to my hazelnut butter to make it better? Something to make it stand out from just chewed hazelnuts.

I picked these hazelnuts myself. They're a little bit on the young side, but they're sweeter like that.

Pic related: My hazelnut butter so far.

>> No.5699847

Salt and peanut oil.

>> No.5699850

>>5699847

I don't have peanut oil. How much salt? Just a pinch?

>> No.5699852

It's probably easier to throw it in a blender. I don't think there's a "right" wys to use a mortar and pestle, if the grain is getting crushed, you're doing a good job. You could watch a YouTube chef's tutorial on it.

Add cocoa powder and make your own Nutella :3

>> No.5699860

>>5699852

Tried making nutella before. Made some horrible thing which tasted like chocolate death.

I don't have a blender... I'd use it if I did.

>> No.5699867

>>5699860
did you follow a recipe or just used your intuition?

>> No.5699881

>>5699867

Followed my own intuition. We had hazelnuts, so I roasted them, but they were already pretty dry so I think that's where we went wrong. I added milk to counter out the lack of moisture, which was a bad idea. Also, I think I burned the hazelnuts a bit and you could definitely taste it so after a while I just decided "fuck it" and I kept adding milk.

To be fair, we made some very strange milkshake that was nice in small quantities... But we had 2 pints of it, so most of it just went off.