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Default REQUEST: Clay Pot Chicken


"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
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> Paul wrote:
>
>>> A claypot is not the same as a Yunnan pot. It doesn't have a steam
>>> chimney in the center. Here, take a look:
>>>
>>> http://www.chinesefooddiy.com/images/Clay-Pot-5.jpg
>>>
>>> Have you ever seen one? I don't think you have.

>>
>> Looks familiar. How would you use it to cook if you had no oven? It
>> would work great as a cooking vessel but they didn't have ovens in China
>> for a couple of thousand years.

>
> Claypots (a.k.a. sandpots) can be used on the stovetop. The main
> precaution
> taken when using them is not to have them abruptly transition from a hot
> surface to a cold one, or vice versa.
>
>
>>> Now apologize for being such a jerk.

>>
>> Nope. Wertz shoots off his damn mouth all the damn time and he hasn't
>> got
>> a clue what he's talking about. If doing a sinple Google search is too
>> much work he can just kiss my ass.

>
> But in this case, YOU are the one who failed to do a Google search, and
> you
> were in the wrong. A Google Image search with the keywords "clay pot
> chinese" didn't turn up one single instance of a Yunnan steam pot in the
> first hundred hits.



I did a Google search on Yunnan pot and came up with hundreds of referneces
for "clay pot cooking." Pictures too. Many of them Yunnan pots. The
sandpot is a different animal and is soaked in water to saturate the clay
then buried in fire embers and ashes from what I learned. Which is not what
the OP seemed to be referring to. And in doing my pre-post research I found
this awesome potter who makes them to order. So I bought one and also
tagine. I am dying to make Moroccon food next.

So yeah, I did learn a thing before I posted. Unlike sqwerts.

Paul