[Sca-cooks] New toy!
Olwen the Odd
olwentheodd at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 24 08:10:21 PST 2003
This one looks interesting. Mine isn't that domed and doesn't have such a
high ridge wall. I paid $20.00 for mine so the $30 they are asking for cast
iron doesn't seem out of range. I wonder if you have to season this one?
Olwen
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>I find a cast iron version on Amazon:
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/b0000cdl04/plaza101-20/ref%3Dnosim/103-3852440-0982244
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>Now I want one too.
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>Selene Colfox
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>Olwen the Odd wrote:
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>>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??
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