Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Anti-gravity food
Feature on how Abkhazian lavash is made. Lavash is just another form of flatbread. Every culture claims its "own" flatbread, but flatbread is flatbread. Lavash is like the others in its ingredients. What makes it unique is the direction of cooking.
Every other food in the world, liquid or solid, is cooked in accordance with gravity. Sitting on a pan or grill above a flame, or on a sheet inside an oven.
Lavash is cooked on the SIDES of a bottle-shaped brick oven, facing almost downward. How does it stay there? Why is it made that way? The article doesn't explain.
Later: This video shows how it's done. Note especially the amazing ergonomics of the workplace! 
Labels: skill-estate
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