Oval Plate 30cm.

Rustic Spanish cooking comes naturally with a Fuego wood fired pizza oven and this large hand-made 30cm oval plate is totally authentic dish to sear steaks, fish and vegetables in your wood-fired oven or even serve them as a sizzling platter.

Known locally in the Castile region of Spain as ‘cazuela’ earthenware, this plate has been moulded entirely by hand by an experienced artisan potter using techniques and a special combination of clays that have been perfected over thousands of years. Local slow-drying red clay gives the plate its strength whilst white clay containing quartz, feldspar, and mica provides its unrivalled refractory qualities. This fire clay gives this plate amazing refractory qualities that make it ideal for use in any Fuego garden pizza oven. Also suitable for microwave, stovetop and traditional oven cooking.

Our terracotta cooking dishes are hand-made by experienced potters made with two types of clay; slow drying red clay which gives the pot its strength and white clay, containing quartz, feldspar and mica which give the pots their incredible refractory properties. The pots are dried, glazed and fired for 10 hours. The glaze on the cazuela dish is perfectly safe for all applications, it contains no lead.

On first use, terracotta cooking dishes need to be soaked for 30 minutes in cold water to prevent the pot from cracking when used. When cooking with terracotta, the key is to increase and decrease heat gradually to avoid cracking and shattering the dishes.