[Sca-cooks] New toy!

[Olwen the Odd]

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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