It is so incredibly disappointing to me that animals will grab the hammer and then just stand silently in front of the mochi pestle. They never take a swing at it!
In case you’re curious, this is absolutely how to make mochi! You take swings at it with a big ol’ hammer! You should really have at least one other person there to kind of move and flip around the ball of it in the bowl, though. Otherwise it’s not really going to work.










