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

I love this thing!! It crushes any pill I put in it with ease. Clean up is easy .. Sturdy and well made. The bottom has slip resistant padding. Highly recommend for anyone who has to regularly crush meds.

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!

This pill crusher is just what I needed after trying many others and just ending up with sore hands! It easily crushes large pills and is very easy to clean! Good quality product at a good price! Definitely will buy another one if I should ever need it!

This is a worthwhile investment for anyone who has to crush pills regularly. It's slip-resistant. The shape is curved and conducive to good grinding. It takes less than two minutes to grind nine pills that used to take me at least six minutes to grind, and this grinds pills to powder, no chips. Not even hard grinding scratches the bowl. It's a good size to work with and plenty large for several medications. The mortar and pestle are both heavy and thick and I have no worries that even the hardest slam or toughest grind will break them. I wasted $10 on a small, plastic pill grinder that hardly did the job, and I returned an electric grinder that did not do the job. An RN recommended a mortar and pestle above everything else. He was right!

Well made & works really well with ease. It is quite heavy… & wouldn’t recommend it for anyone with weaker hands. But if you’re down to grind away… then it works great & really does get pills down to a fine powder without any big chunks or pieces. Very easy to use overall and cleaning is a piece of cake (I handwash it or just wipe it down).

My mom needs her medications crushed, I'd been using a pill crusher I bought at the drugstore, the common little plastic device you turn to crush. You have to crush several times, opening and closing over and over and it's not really crushed that good. I tried this one, so far it does a better job of crushing the pills, but it does leave quite a bit of residue in the container so i am still scraping as much as I can into a small container I add pudding or applesauce to. I've only used it a week, but so far it seems sturdy and works better than the plastic one I got at the drugstore.

High quality! Sturdy. Great product.

A fine small but heavy yet robust little mortar and pestle. Grinding salt, peppercorns, coffee beans, beans, grain, dried herbs, nuts and a bit overboard for medication tablets. Grinds well into smoothness in 5-8 minutes with moderate but not excessive effort except for extended periods of time-say for a marinate or to season a brisket. Capacity is about one dry cup. The soft gripping base rubber pad on the bottom breaks down and degrades very quickly after scrubbing and rinsing just the mortar bowl. Caked on material that doesn’t scrape off soaks or boils off the pestle well enough.