[Sca-cooks] Chinese hotpots (was RE: fondue)

[Elaine Koogler]

I've not looked as these particular hot pots, so don't know how thick the walls
are, but if they are relatively thin, you can use sterno in cans as a heat
source.  We have a hot pot that uses those quite nicely!

Kiri

Gwynydd Of Culloden wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:  Olwen
>
> Many thanks.
>
> I made the mistake of telling my Lady what a hot pot was and she is much
> taken with the idea.  I think it is what she wants for her birthday dinner
> (and there was I thinking I could get away with paying someone else to feed
> us!  Oh well, a hot pot, particularly if I get the butcher to slice the
> meat, is as close to self serve as damnit *smile*).
>
> Oh, do those briquettes for barbeques work well in this situation - it is
> winter outside, we don't have a barbeque of any kind - let alone a wood
> fired one, and I don't feel like getting back to nature by building a fire
> on the ground outside (although, if the duck got too close, that might solve
> the meat question *chuckle*).
>
> Gwynydd
>
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