Today I read, via @JamesWhetlor (of Cabrito Goat fame), how the Big Green Egg is produced. Including why it has those dimples…
A single ‘matrix mould’ is produced by hand, even the etching in of each dimple, with the ceramic slurry poured into moulds made from that one matrix. It is from that single matrix that the EGG comes, including the one sitting in your garden. The dimples themselves, which, other than its ‘greenness’, are perhaps the EGG’s most distinguishing feature, fulfil two functions. Firstly, they make the EGGs easier to release from the mould and, secondly, they give a uniform finish which, if left smooth, would be difficult to achieve.
The expert ceramicists and clay potters out there, will of course already have worked that out and, for obvious reasons, Val just gently rolled her eyes (in a “more in sorrow, than anger” manner), when I casually mentioned this fact to her.
I have only amended part of his quote here: “including the one [maybe soon to be] sitting in y̶our garden”…
I came across his recipe book for The Egg whilst looking for a different one that happened to have “egg” in the title, by Mieko Kawakami.
a radical and intimate portrait of contemporary working class womanhood in Japan, recounting the heartbreaking journeys of three women in a society where the odds are stacked against them © Pan Macmillan
Both items are recommended; the book is slightly cheaper.
