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An American cast-iron Dutch oven, 1896. In Asia, particularly China, India, Korea and Japan, there is a long history of cooking with cast-iron vessels. The first mention of a cast-iron kettle in English appeared in 679 or 680, though this wasn't the first use of metal vessels for cooking.
Cousances was a brand of enameled cast iron cookware ("cocotte" in French). [2] [3] [4] originally manufactured by a foundry in the town of Cousances-les-Forges in northeastern France. [5] [1] The Cousances foundry began making cast iron pans in 1553. [6] Four centuries later, in 1957, the brand was acquired by Le Creuset. [7]
An American Dutch oven, 1896. A Dutch oven, Dutch pot (US English), or casserole dish (international) is a thick-walled cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid. Dutch ovens are usually made of seasoned cast iron; however, some Dutch ovens are instead made of cast aluminium, or ceramic.
Potbrood ("pot bread") is bread first made by the Boer settlers of what is now South Africa. Potbrood was traditionally baked in a cast-iron pot (also known as a Dutch oven) in a pit made in the ground and lined with hot coals. Potbrood is often made at a braai (barbecue) by packing charcoal or wood coals around a cooking pot. [1]
The Le Creuset Signature range of cast iron cookware is coated in a minimum of three coats of enamel. [13] The enamel becomes resistant to damage during normal use. Currently, all Le Creuset cast-iron cookware is still manufactured in the company's foundry in Fresnoy-le-Grand. The process was featured on BBC Two's Inside the Factory. [14]
Bread is put in and taken out from the stove using a special wooden paddle on a long shank. Cast iron pots of special shape called chugun are handled in the oven with ukhvat , a long wooden handle with the two-pronged metal "grabber". [3] [8]
A masonry oven, colloquially known as a brick oven or stone oven, is an oven consisting of a baking chamber made of fireproof brick, concrete, stone, clay (clay oven), or cob (cob oven). Though traditionally wood-fired , coal -fired ovens were common in the 19th century, and modern masonry ovens are often fired with natural gas or even ...
A pie iron, also called pudgy pie iron, sandwich toaster, snackwicher, toastie maker, sandwich maker, is a cooking appliance that consists of two hinged concave, round or square, cast iron or aluminium plates on long handles. Its "clamshell" design resembles that of a waffle iron, but without the checkered pattern.