[Sca-cooks] New toy!

[Susan Fox-Davis]

I find a cast iron version on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/b0000cdl04/plaza101-20/ref%3Dnosim/103-3852440-0982244

Now I want one too.

Selene Colfox

Olwen the Odd wrote:

> Hi all, and happy holidays.
> Over the weekend I went to the big oriental market and they had a 
> special guest vendor there from Korea, just for the weekend.  As I 
> walked by and looked over their display items I noticed a flatish 
> ceramic dish looking thing, higher in the center, and slightly sloping 
> down.   It is scored in a pattern which is attractive yet set in such 
> a way so as to act as an irrigation type system leading to a slightly 
> raised lip and a small hole in the valley of that dip.  The platter 
> was sitting on top of a butaine burner such as I use and under the 
> hole was a little bowl sitting next to the stove.  I was very curious 
> and asked what it was.  It was explained to me that it was a cooking 
> surface and he pointed out a small piece of meat sitting on the 
> platter and told me how the grooves helped allow the fats and liquids 
> from the frying meats to drain away and down the small hole into the 
> little bowl.  Well, it *had* to be mine!  I have used it each day 
> since I got it and I love it.  It works as good or better than my cast 
> iron skillets.  Now that the merchants are back in Korea I wonder how 
> I can ever get another one!  I don't even know what it is called.  
> Anyone know??