A red vitamin B12 took well over an hour and the winner of the toilet prize went to a Thai dried ferrous sulfate, aneurine HCI,
Pyridoxine HCI, cyanocobalamin. 12 hours to dissolve. A local burapet capsule is still going after 3 hours and may yet win. That night I followed Ted's suggestion and ground 'em up and sprinkled the powder on my food.
Big question is, in Thailand, where to buy powdered vitamins? Where to buy a small mortar & pestle?
Replied by Piper (Toronto, On) on 09/11/2010
I have made mine simply by putting them through my coffee grinder. I just wipe it carefully between different things.Replied by L. (Red Deer, Alberta Canada) on 09/14/2010
If you grind up pills, you still have the excipients and fillers. I'm in Alberta, Canada, and I order alot of supplements from purebulk. They come in pure powder form, and are reasonable even with the exchange and shipping. Same day mail out too.Replied by Peter In Thailand (Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand) on 09/17/2010
You asked above, "in Thailand... Where to buy a small mortar & pestle?"
Almost every local market, in any town, will have mortars & pestles for sale. Used for grinding chilies, seeds, like sesame seeds, and even small quantities of rice, for making "cream of rice" cereal that the Thais love to eat for breakfast. Come in wood and granite. I bought the granite -- handles anything I throw in there. The wood ones are used for Thai chopped salads -- "som-dham" -- and not solid enough for grinding up vitamin pills. Easiest way to find what you want is to print a few pictures from the Internet -- then walk around the market showing those pictures to vendors of kitchen equipment. The friendly Thais will help you find what you're looking for.
