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Grilling Montana / Grilling Equipment / Ceramic Cooker Antique Cooking Experience

Ceramic Cooker Antique Cooking Experience

Published: Aug 1, 2014 · Modified: Jul 13, 2021 by Paul Sidoriak · This post may contain affiliate links

Recently I got to experience cooking on a ceramic cooker antique that was older than I am.  We had two cookers on display but fired up the bigger one of the two.  The story behind these antique ceramic cookers were that they were brought to the USA from Vietnam around 1950.

Ceramic Cooker Antique Cooking ExperienceInteresting enough, these antique ceramic cookers had hardly ever been used and even had some of the original labeling still affixed to the exterior.  The owner told me that these antique ceramic cookers were almost strictly used for cooking rice back in the day and using them as used today for grilling or barbecue was not its main purpose.

The top of the antique cooker where air escape is regulated was similar to one you would find today made of a heavier casted metal and allowing the temperature to be adjusted by opening or constricting the amount of airflow.Ceramic Cooker Antique Cooking Experience

 

The dimensions of these antique ceramic cookers were almost identical to todays mini and medium sized Big Green Egg grills.

Ceramic Cooker Antique Cooking ExperienceIt was interesting to see even how much the hinges resembled the hinges used on the Big Green Egg Mini in the past five years.

Ceramic Cooker Antique Cooking ExperienceOne modern improvement that The Big Green Egg has made over these antique ceramic cookers is in the dome handle.  On the antique ceramic cooker, the handle to open the dome is almost flush with the lid making it very challenging to open the dome without burning your fingers.  Todays versions are much safer and easier to open.

Ceramic Cooker Antique Cooking Experience

Ceramic Cooker Antique Cooking Experience

 

Ceramic Cooker Antique Cooking Experience

 

 

 

Even though this antique ceramic cooker had not been used in at least 50 years, it had no problem breathing back to life.  The antique ceramic cooker had no gasket on it but still cooked quite efficiently.  It may have been the burgers we were making, or that the grill was making up for lost time, but the cooker did produce more smoke than I had ever seen.  I think it was just happy to be brought back to life.

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  1. AvatarBecky

    August 01, 2014 at 9:34 pm

    Those are COOL, what the Big Green Egg was based on, I have never seen one of the older ones though wish I could find one:) Thanks for Sharing

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