Pie plate history. History of dishes. Shape and distinctive features

The history of the plate, as a container in which food is placed, began in the Neolithic era. At that time, clay strands were used to make it. Gradually, pottery making skills improved, and in the ancient world, pottery making became an art.

It was then that ceremonial plates, used during celebrations, and decorative ones appeared. These varieties were made not only from clay, but also from gold and silver.

In the East, in particular in China, ceramic plates appeared in the 7th century AD. However, they came to Europe only in the 14th century as a gift to the French king from the Chinese emperor.

In the Middle Ages in Europe, food was placed on large pieces of very hard bread, which were soaked in butter at the end of the meal. Then they were either eaten or given to dogs. Later, they began to use planks with a hollow in the middle, but food on them had a bitter taste due to the absorbed and rancid oil. Liquid dishes were then eaten from one large bowl or several smaller bowls, but always several people from one. In the XIV-XV centuries, plates made of tin, as well as gold and silver, began to be used for the first time in France. They bore little resemblance to modern ones, as they had a quadrangular shape.

In Rus', the history of the appearance of plates in everyday life begins in the 15th century. Until this time, deep bowls made of wood or clay were used, the dimensions of which were sometimes quite significant. The whole family could eat from one bowl at once. It is believed that the word plate itself comes from the German “thaler”, which was first transformed into “plate”, and later into “plate” or “plate”.

Tableware - dishes used to set the table and in which hot dishes are served. The history of the appearance and transformation of tableware has evolved over the centuries, as it is inextricably linked with the culture of eating.

The roots of the art of table setting should probably be sought during the Italian Renaissance, when merchants organized sumptuous feasts. Catherine de Medici took these Italian dinner traditions with her to France when she married the French king Henry II. But it was only under Louis XIV, that is, in the second half of the 17th century, that the first rules for table setting and gala dinners were established in France. But this was precisely the impetus for the development of the production of tableware, and by the middle of the 18th century no one was surprised by the abundance of factories producing porcelain and glassware.

This fashion was picked up by England, and in the Victorian era (1837-1901) it was destined to become a legislator and zealous champion of table setting traditions. The types of tableware have reached their peak - from chocolate forks to 8 types of salad forks. It is not surprising that it was at this time that the highest level of tableware production in history was observed.

The current time dictates its own conditions, the modern pace of life does not allow us to devote as much time to eating as during the reign of Victoria. Table setting has become simpler, and as a result, the number of tableware has also decreased. In ordinary life, we make do with a small set consisting of two or three plates, a salad bowl, a cup, a fork, a couple of spoons and a knife.

And yet, sometimes, when we celebrate some event at home, we want to set the table truly, beautifully and luxuriously, like in the good old days, when delicious dishes placed on an exquisitely served table were an indicator of culture and inspired guests and hosts to high conversations. Table setting is an entire art, which we will definitely talk about in another article, but for now let’s return to our topic and see what types of tableware are used now.

View	Name	Description
	Dining room deep	Plates with a diameter of 20-24 cm and a capacity of 250-500 cm 3. Used to serve first courses, both hot and cold.
	The dining room is small	Plates with a diameter of 27-32 cm. Used for serving second courses (side dishes and dishes with side dishes).
	The snack bar is big	Plates with a diameter of 26-31 cm. Used for serving hot and cold appetizers, cold meat dishes, sweet hot dishes with sauce.
	Small snack bar	Plate with a diameter of 20 cm. Used for serving cold appetizers.
	Dessert deep	A plate with a diameter of 20 cm. Used for serving desserts with sauces.
	Dessert small	A plate with a diameter of 20 cm, usually with a wavy edge or a pattern along the rim. Used for serving fruits and sweet desserts.
	Pirozhkovaya	A plate with a diameter of 16-18 cm. Used for serving bread, croutons, pies.
	Fish plate	A plate 33-37 cm long and 23-26 cm wide. Used for serving fish dishes.
	Chill plate	Used for snack dishes such as oysters, stews, salads.
	Menagerie plate	Used for serving several types of side dishes and salads, as well as for serving fondue.
	Dish	Round and oval, square and rectangular plates with a diameter (long) of 40-45 cm. Used for serving cold dishes from fish, meat, poultry and game. You can also put canapés on them.
	Salad bowl	Deep plates of various shapes with a volume of 120 cm 3. Used for serving salads, fresh vegetables, pickles, marinades, etc.
	Herring girl	An oblong plate for serving herring and canned fish.
	Caviar plate	Plate with a diameter of 15 cm. Designed for serving pressed caviar.
	Egg plate	Designed for serving scrambled eggs.
	Saucer	Plates on which cups or glasses are placed.
	Socket	Saucer with a diameter of 9-10 cm. Used for serving jam, preserves or honey.
	Kremanka	Deep plate with a diameter of 9 cm (can be on a leg). Used for serving jelly, fruit salads, fresh berries.

Special dishes

All this tableware is made mainly from porcelain and earthenware. Dishes in which dishes are not only served, but also baked, are often made from stainless steel and cupronickel. Also often metal are utensils for spices and small special dishes (for example, cupronickel or silver caviar with a crystal insert). Ceramic dishes are more appropriate if you are serving the corresponding dishes of national cuisine.

A separate topic for conversation are such types of tableware as

MBDOU CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER - KINDERGARTEN No. 477

LESSON SUMMARY

on the development of ideas about man in history and culture

for children of the middle group.

Topic: “Interesting stories from the chest about how the dishes appeared.”

Performed:

teacher Fedorova E.B..

2009

Subject : "Interesting stories from the chest about how the dishes appeared."

Tasks : 1. Develop children’s ideas about technical progress: introduce children to the history of the appearance of dishes (pots, spoons, plates, forks);

2. Continue to form children’s ideas about the purpose of utensils;

3. Arouse interest in the past of tableware;

4. Cultivate curiosity and a desire to learn new things.

Material : Chest, dishes (pan, spoon, fork, plate), illustrations of dishes, toothpicks,stick with a forked end, pieces of apple, potato.

Progress of the lesson:

The teacher brings the chest and says:

“This chest is not a simple one with riddles; it contains objects that have their own unusual history. Guess what items are in the chest?”

: 1.Kettle girlfriend,

Has two ears

Cooks porridge and soup for Yulia

And her name is……..(saucepan)

Listen to the story about the saucepan:

“A long time ago, people lived in a cave, they did not have a saucepan, they cooked food over a fire, hanging it on a stick. But this was very inconvenient, and then the man made a saucepan from a stone that he found near his cave. He dug a hole out of the stone, and it turned out to be a saucepan that could be put on the fire and cooked.”

Guys, why do we need a saucepan? ( cook food)

What else is in the chest?

The teacher asks a riddle: 2. The man ate food with his hands,

Just imagine

How difficult it was

Eating thin soup with your hands.

I really love the products

I don’t eat on my own

And I feed everyone

What do you think the man came up with? ( spoon)

(The teacher takes out a spoon)

Listen to how the spoon appeared:

“At first it was made of stone. It was a long time ago. Then the man moved from the cave to the hut. Then they began to make a spoon out of wood.”

Let's compare a stone spoon and a wooden one. Which one do you think is better and why?

And the wooden spoon has sisters, these are the metal spoons that we use now because they are durable, comfortable, lightweight and do not break.

Now we have learned a lot about the spoon.

But we have more items in our chest.

3. Well, what kind of lunch is this?

If we are not on the table.

We are "deep" and "shallow".

We are called……..( dishes )

Want to know how the plate came to be? Then listen.

“People used to put food on the leaves that fell from the tree. It was inconvenient. And then the man decided to make a plate out of stone. But the stone plates turned out to be very heavy. The man thought and thought and made a plate out of wood. It became more pleasant and convenient for him to eat. The wooden plate is durable and does not break. Many girlfriends gradually appeared at the plate. There are plates made of clay, glass, silver, gold and porcelain. The plate is a very important thing.”

The chest gives us a plate(the teacher takes out a plate).

Guys, guess what item is still left in the chest?

The teacher asks a riddle:4. One day a man realized

To make it convenient to eat,

He must create a tool

Similar to Rohatyn. ( fork )

Let's listen to the story about the fork:

“A long time ago, people lived in caves, ate berries, mushrooms, and various plants. We ate them with our hands.

Is it convenient to eat with your hands? (not convenient) The man began to think about what needs to be done to make it convenient to eat. I thought and thought, searched and searched, and found it.(the teacher shows a stick with a sharp and a blunt end).”

Is it convenient to pierce food with a stick?

experimental part:

/children pierce slices of potatoes, apples, etc. sharp and blunt ends of the stick./

Which end is easier to pierce apple slices?

So what kind of sticks did you need to look for to make it easier to pierce food?

And then people noticed: if you prick food with a fork like this, it holds better

(the teacher shows a stick with a forked end).

Why is a wooden fork inconvenient? (breaks, fragile)

People were eager to find other material. This is how metal forks appeared.

Now these forks are used all over the world. Different forks with different numbers of tines appeared: for cake, fish, meat.

The teacher asks a question:How should you handle a fork, how can it be dangerous?

“Guys, our chest is empty. Let's thank him for the interesting stories."

(In conclusion, the chest gives the children a set of children's dishes)

The dish can be satellite, it can be music. It can even be flying, and they say that some lucky people have personally observed them, and in Samara there is even a monument to such a plate. But, first of all, the plate is a cutlery. This piece of utensils has become part of our everyday life so long ago that it is difficult to imagine how we could manage without it. But before the plate acquired the features and shapes familiar to our eyes, its appearance underwent significant changes, and there is nothing to say about the material.

The well-known deep soup bowls, flat plates for main courses and saucers are sure to be found in any kitchen. At first glance, it seems that all the plates differ only in diameter and capacity. However, this is not quite true. There are a huge number of types of plates, and each of them serves its own specific purpose. There are about a dozen types of flat plates alone!

For example, pie plates. Despite the “telling” name, not only pies are placed on them, but also other bakery products, and in addition they are used as stands for gravy boats and cutlery. Snack plates are useful for breakfast; they also serve hot snacks. Table plates are used to serve second hot courses.

In addition, plates with soup are placed on them (by the way, soups are traditionally served in deep, “soup” plates, but to serve broths and pureed soups, broth cups are used, which, however, have nothing in common with tea cups - they differ from soup bowls only by the presence of handles). Dessert plates, deep and shallow, as the name implies, are intended for serving desserts. Small ones are for fruits, berries or casseroles, and deep ones are for fruit soups and strawberries with cream.

They differ from eateries only in the ornamentation - brighter and with a “dessert” orientation. And these are just simple plates! But the plate family also includes herring bowls, salad bowls, cream bowls, trays, rosettes for jam, large round dishes for canapé sandwiches... in general, your eyes run wild.
The material from which plates are made is also very, very diverse - from almost eternal bowls made of stainless steel, for lovers of extreme recreation, to disposable plates made of plastic or pressed paper, for picnics or people who hate washing dishes. Agree, it’s convenient - you can eat, but you don’t need to wash anything. Our distant ancestors, by the way, also in some cases did without washing the dishes. But not because they were too lazy to wash the dishes, but because in Ancient Rus', instead of a personal plate, a thick slice of bread was often used, which after the meal could be eaten by oneself or given to the dogs.

Historical item
By the way, about Ancient Rus': it is to this period that we owe the appearance of saucers. At that time, food was served on large dishes, mostly round or oval, made of silver, gold, tin, or even glass, in portions designed for several people. The lower the nobility of the person invited to the feast, the smaller the dish he was served. That’s why the names came about - saucer, saucer... But don’t worry, now the rules of table etiquette have changed significantly, and you don’t have to worry about offending a distinguished guest by placing a saucer in front of him instead of a large plate.

By the way, the word “plate” appeared in everyday life much later than the object itself. In the Middle Ages, instead of plates, bowls were used (deeper and wider vessels than plates), which were larger in size and were designed for simultaneous meals by several people. The plates allowed everyone to eat from their own dishes. The word “plate” itself, according to some sources, comes from the German “thaler” and was further modified, turning from “thaler” to “taler”, then “plate”, and then into the familiar “plate”. By the way, the plates received their first recognition in France, and from there they began to become widespread. But, it’s true, these important subjects did not “round off” right away - French -
The plates were square and looked more like trays than dishes.

The very first plates were made back in the Neolithic era. They were sculpted from clay, and they looked, to put it mildly, peculiar, but they performed their functions properly. It must be said that clay plates are still very popular all over the world. But Greek ceramics remained outside the categories. By the way, the first “specialized” plates were also invented by Greek craftsmen - these were ceramic dishes for fish, on which it was cooked and served. By the way, herring is a slightly modified, but direct descendant of those same dishes.
When talking about clay dishes, one cannot fail to mention porcelain. Products made from it, known throughout the world for one and a half thousand years, are distinguished by their special whiteness, thin walls and melodious ringing at the slightest touch. Faience is the brother of porcelain, easier to process and cheaper. Earthenware plates look almost the same as porcelain, but they still have one significant difference: if in doubt, pick up the porcelain or earthenware and look at the product in the light. Porcelain will show through, but earthenware will not.

Wooden plates were no less common than clay ones. Wooden pseudo-plates, which look like planks with a hollow in the center, were quite popular in the Middle Ages. But they quickly became unusable, as they became saturated with food residues, acquiring an unpleasant odor, and therefore they often preferred to use bread instead. However, later, when wood processing reached a new level, wooden plates became no less common than clay ones, and in some ways even more popular - because wooden plates, although they were a little more expensive, still broke less and, as a result, lasted longer.

Nowadays, wooden plates are used more as a decorative element, but in vain. Because wooden utensils have very special qualities. In addition to external beauty, it gives the food placed in it a unique aroma, for which, in fact, it is valued. In Rus', linden was mainly used to make dishes, because its wood is not only easy to process and does not crack, but also gives food a pleasant aroma.

Appetite in Art Nouveau style
The first plastic disposable plates appeared in the late 50s of the last century and immediately became wildly popular. Their inventor, the American William Dart, came to this idea in a very original way: the idea of ​​​​creating plastic tableware was prompted by a glass that was accidentally broken in a restaurant, the cost of which, naturally, was included in his bill. We also owe the appearance of paper plates to the Americans. Kansas student Hugh Murr and entrepreneur Lawrence Luellen received a patent in 1910, first for paper cups and then for plates. They were prompted to create these items by the “unhygienic” nature of public utensils.

However, in addition to their intended use, the plates also had more original uses. During the Civil War, when newspapers and leaflets
It was difficult to issue ki due to problems with paper, the government decided on an original move. Having discovered a certain amount of ready-made, but not yet painted goods at the former imperial (now state) porcelain factory, it was decided to put it into use as revolutionary agitation. As a result, instead of the pastoral motifs of traditional painting, the plates were imprinted with calls to fight, slogans from the series “Workers of all countries, unite!” and portraits of revolutionary leaders.

Initially, it was assumed that these products would be available to the general public, but it turned out that they could only be seen at exhibitions. These materials were produced in batches of no more than three hundred copies and therefore never received wide distribution. Soviet propaganda porcelain is still very popular among collectors around the world. And there’s nothing to say about clay pigeon shooting. By the way, whoever invented this sport probably wasn’t a big fan of washing dishes.

Nowadays, the choice is huge and varied - you can find dishes of any color, shape, material and style. But whatever your choice turns out to be, the main thing is that you always feel comfortable, in other words, at ease!

It seems like dishes - you don’t even notice them in the frantic rhythm of modern life. It’s too small a thing, people have too many different problems and concerns these days to think about it. All this is understandable, but imagine what our life would be like without dishes. How would we eat borscht or meat in French? What did they eat there! How would we prepare food? Unless over the fire, on a spit, whole carcasses of meat. A dubious pleasure, isn't it? Therefore, let's talk about dishes, about their yesterday and today.

A long time ago

So, when did the history of tableware begin? About 6-7 thousand years ago. Naturally, there was no talk of any beautiful porcelain plates or elegant wine glasses in those distant times. There were already elephants, but there were no china shops yet. Everything was just beginning, and the beginning of this “everything” was found not just anywhere, but in Mother Earth. We're talking about clay. It was from this, of course, that the first samples of tableware were made by hand. They turned out clumsy, ugly and fragile. But still they were there. The process, as they say, has begun: it was the clay bowls that became the prototypes of modern plates, pots, and pans.

Gradually, people realized that not all clay is suitable for dishes. Others crack when dried or fired. Over time, the most suitable varieties were selected. Naturally, the production of tableware developed in those regions where there was sufficient quantity of good “tableware” clay.

The next stage in tableware production was the practice of adding various other substances to clay. With their help, they increased the strength of the finished product, changed its color, making it more pleasing to the eye. Such clay (with additives) is called “ceramics”. Then everything, in general, progressed: the firing technology was improved, new materials were found for making tableware - this contributed to a gradual increase in its quality.

Ancient Greece and Rome - it was here, perhaps, that ceramic ware reached its heyday. On small and large dishes, ancient masters depicted various gods, scenes from their lives, and the adventures of heroes. During the same period, a division of tableware into everyday, formal and decorative dishes appeared. In addition to ceramics, they began to make tin, as well as silver and gold dishes.

Don't forget about porcelain (it's also ceramic). In its homeland, China, the first porcelain products appeared around 600 AD. A lot of time passed, only in the 14th century did porcelain reach Europe. Naturally, not to supermarkets, but only to the noblest and richest persons. Porcelain was very expensive, and dishes made from it for a long time remained more of an interior decoration, a beautiful trinket, indicating, among other things, the good financial situation of the owner. Only at the beginning of the 18th century in the Old World they were able to produce their own high-quality porcelain. They began to supply it to the royal courts, and gradually it became quite widespread, although it remained the privilege of the nobility. Next, we will analyze the history of individual items of dishes, cutlery and kitchen utensils.

Plate

The history of tableware is impossible without plates. This seems natural to us. Meanwhile, the plate did not appear on people’s tables immediately, at least not along with the food. At first, the tables themselves were partly plates. For example, in Europe, in the 8th century, and not just anywhere, but at royal feasts, food was laid out in special recesses hollowed out in oak tables. They took food with their hands and put it in their mouth. Later (around the 13th century), food from the recess on the table was already transferred to large round pieces of bread. It was like an individual portion, and a loaf of bread was a prototype of a plate. And only from the 14th century in France they began to use something similar to modern plates. They were then made from tin and wood. Wealthy French, however, could afford metal cutlery. The plates then were not the usual round shape, but a quadrangular shape.

In the ancient Russian expanses, food, at least from the 11th century, was served on common dishes. They were made from different materials: wood, clay, tin, sometimes steel (but this came later, of course, and not in all regions). In rich boyar houses one could see silver and gold dishes, most often, however, made abroad. There was especially a lot of it at royal feasts. There are known cases when foreign ambassadors present at such feasts simply stole royal dishes, hiding them in their bosoms. On this occasion, Ivan the Terrible ordered the purchase of copper utensils from England, but, so that the ambassadors would not be offended, silver or gilded ones.

In general, the first written mention of the use of individual plates during meals in Rus' dates back to the time of False Dmitry I. In “Domostroy” it was said that when preparing for dinner one must “inspect the table, the tablecloth is white, bread, salt, spoons (small spoons ), collect the plates.”

In Rus' they not only ate from plates. For example, kings awarded them to their subjects. One way or another, individual dishes (plates, spoons) began to enter the everyday life of Russian wealthy people only in the 17th century, and only from the 18th century did plates become an integral attribute of the meal. In the 1740s, the secret of producing hard porcelain was discovered in Russia; this, of course, helped further “promote” the plate to the people. However, the lower strata of the population sometimes ate with their hands, straight from the table, even at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

Nowadays there are many types of plates. Firstly, they are divided by purpose: there are deep soup plates, table plates for “second” courses, small plates, snack plates, and pie plates. Secondly, according to the material from which they are made: ceramics, glass, porcelain, wood, metal, plastic, paper. Separately, it is worth noting the decorative plates used to decorate interiors.

Spoon

The spoon has been known to mankind for a very long time. In ancient Europe, spoons were made of wood, but, for example, in Greece they often used sea shells of suitable shape. Actually, the use of shells as spoons was widespread long before the Greeks. The Egyptians made spoons from ivory, wood, and even stone. Romans - often made of bronze and silver (just like the ancient Greeks).

The Middle Ages were characterized by horn and wooden spoons. In the 15th century they also began to be made from brass, tin and copper. The wealthiest part of the population (in Europe), of course, preferred silver or gold spoons.

In the 16th century, the handle of the spoon became flat, and the scoop took on the shape of an ellipse (previously it was rather round). Even later, during the 18th century, the scoop becomes narrower (so food gets into the mouth easier). The spoon acquired its modern shape, where the bowl-shaped part is wider at the base and narrower at the end, in the 1760s.

In Rus', spoons have also been known for a long time. They are mentioned, for example, in The Tale of Bygone Years. They often carried them with them. Those who were richer had a special case for this. The rest could simply tuck the spoon into their belts or the top of their boots. There were a great many types of spoons in our country. It is enough to open Dahl's dictionary to see this.

Knife

Of course, a knife is perhaps the most ancient cutlery. Naturally, at first it was not any kind of cutlery. It’s just that every man, a breadwinner, had a knife. At first it was stone, and then, as everything and everyone developed, it came to metal. They wore a knife, for example, in a belt, in a special sheath. They used it for different purposes: to cut off a piece of meat, to defend themselves in a fight, or even to attack someone with a knife on the highway. In general, until a certain time, no one made a distinction between a utility knife, a combat knife, a hunting knife, or a table knife.

Only in the 16th century, special knives gradually began to be used during meals. However, they still looked like daggers - their ends were sharp. Apparently, to fight back if a neighbor encroaches on your portion. By the way, according to one legend, it was in order to avoid dinner quarrels that Napoleon allegedly ordered the ends of table knives to be rounded. Eh, how many people have died during meals in three centuries? You won’t reread it!

There are many types of modern knives. We are only interested in those that are related to the preparation or consumption of food: kitchen and dining rooms. We have already talked about them in sufficient detail in one of the materials. The first group is quite large: they include knives for meat, bread, butter, cheese, etc. Table knives are those that are included in the cutlery group, along with a spoon and fork. A few words about the latter below.

The first forks, still with two prongs, appeared, apparently, somewhere in the Middle East in the 9th century. They were completely straight, and not curved in the toothed part, as they are now. Therefore, with their help it was only possible to prick food, not scoop.

After a couple of hundred years, the fork “made a journey” - it came to Byzantium, and then to Italy. There she came to the court, to the table, if you like. In the 16th-17th centuries, not a single self-respecting aristocrat, even a seedy and impoverished one, could do without a fork at the table.

In England, the fork began to come into use only in the 18th century. Its unhurried spread at meals there was greatly facilitated by the Catholic Church, which declared our heroine “an unnecessary luxury.”

But Marina Mnishek brought the fork to Russia. During the wedding feast on the occasion of her betrothal to False Dmitry I, she took it out and used it for its intended purpose. Of course, this unprecedented situation brought shock and awe to almost all the boyars present, not to mention the clergy. Until the 18th century, forks in Russia were called “Rogatina” or “Wilts”.

The fork owes its modern shape, curved at the tines, to the Germans. All in the same 18th century, the first such samples appeared in Germany. In addition, it has added tines - the classic fork has four of them since then.

Plates, spoons, knives, forks - all this, of course, is good. But without a pan in which food is cooked, so that it can then be laid out on a plate and consumed with the help of cutlery - “neither here nor there.”

Everything is simple here. First, of course, there was a pot. Clay, then ceramic. It was in the pots that porridge and soups were cooked, and water was also simply boiled. They stewed meat, fish, vegetables, and baked various foods.

Naturally, due to the fact that the pots were multi-purpose products, they were made by potters of different sizes, and therefore capacities. There were pots for many buckets, huge ones, and there were also very small ones that could hold several glasses of liquid.

Another difference is the exterior finish. Those pots in which food was served on the table were decorated more richly. And the ordinary ones, stove ones, were most often left without decorations at all. It is interesting that the closer to our time, the less Russian masters (and foreign ones too) paid attention to decorating pots. The strength of the pot remained in the first place. If it happened that the pot was cracked, it was not thrown away, but, when possible, it was braided, for example, with birch bark and used to store various products.

Alas, no matter how good the pot was, the culinary needs of the population in different countries became more and more sophisticated - it could no longer fully satisfy them. It's time for pans (from the French casserole). A saucepan is a metal container known to all of us for preparing (cooking) food. You can cook in a saucepan over an open fire or in the oven. A normal saucepan - with handles and a lid. The thicker the bottom of the pan (within reasonable limits), the better - in such utensils the food burns less.

Nowadays in kitchens you can see cast iron, aluminum, stainless steel, enameled and non-stick pans. The shape of the pan may depend on what dish it is primarily intended for (for example, an oval duck pot).

No matter how hard you try, it’s hard to imagine a full-fledged kitchen without a frying pan (and more than one). Therefore, a few words about her.

It’s hardly worth explaining to our readers what a frying pan is. Its history is naturally connected with the same clay pot. Actually, the first frying pans were also made of clay. Even now, in the cuisines of many peoples, they are used for preparing certain dishes (for example, frying smoked meat among the Abkhazians before serving it). The logic of development, modification of the frying pan and its achievement of its modern appearance, I think, is also clear.

Nowadays, clay pans are found only in national restaurants. They have long been replaced by metal ones. A frying pan is a relative of a saucepan, and therefore, like it, it can be made of cast iron, aluminum, stainless steel, or with a non-stick coating. Pans are also divided according to their purpose: for grilling food, pancakes, for fish, Chinese wok...

The frying pan can be without handles at all, with one or two. As a rule, it is equipped with a lid, which can be metal or glass (transparent).

To be continued

This article talks about the most interesting and fascinating facts about the history of dishes, cutlery, and basic utensils. Next, you will find materials that tell in detail about the various types and types of things mentioned here, the pros, cons, purpose of this or that utensil or utensil, and the rules for caring for them.