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Category Archives: Cookware

Flatware Sterilizer

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on June 7, 2018

Rice cooker repurposed as flatware sterilizer.

Cookware, Davao del Sur carinderia, Davao City, rice cooker, sterilizer

Lao Steamed Sticky Rice

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on July 5, 2017

Steaming sticky rice in a bamboo basket that sits on an aluminum pot with water

Steamed in a basket, served in a basket

Aep khaoh – woven bamboo container for cooked sticky rice

Cookware, Food, Laos, Receptacle aep khaoh, container, huard, steamed rice, steamer pot, sticky rice, woven bamboo

Cylindrical Charcoal Briquettes

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on March 28, 2016

There is life on the pavements of Hanoi that it’s not possible to use those for walking exclusively (people walk on the road in sync with vehicular traffic). The pavement is a living space where people park their motorbikes, buy and sell, worship (joss paper burning), eat, prepare food, and cook. After observing several cooking scenes, I’ve noted that people use cylindrical charcoal briquette for a stove purposely-built for it.

Bicycle vendor selling cylindrical charcoal stoves

Cookware, Vietnam briquette, charcoal, Hanoi, pavement, stove

Beer Keg Barbecuing

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on July 21, 2015

San Miguel Beer keg repurposed as barbecue grill

Front view when closed

Back view when closed

Cebu, Cookware, Repurposing barbecue grill, beer keg, Mactan, Nalusuan Island Resort and Marine Sanctuary, San Miguel

D’Airplane

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on June 18, 2015

From what has been passed on to me, the brand name came to be because long time ago their pots and pans were really crafted from aircraft aluminum scrap. D’ Airplane is an old low-cost aluminum cookware brand that’s very common in the country and still being sold in department stores.

Cookware, Pinoy Way of Life aluminum, D'Airplane, pots and pans

The Ainokura Way of Grilling

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on January 4, 2015

Grilling in an Ainokura way

Trout from the mountain streams are grilled with salt in skewers over live charcoals in an almost standing position. It’s a local fare in Ainokura, a remote but very lovely mountain village in Gokayama region.

Tastes really smoky good when cooked that I consumed two sticks

Fish almost fully-cooked

Cookware, Food, Japan Ainokura, brook, freshwater fish, Gokayama, Japan Northern Alps, mountain, village

Rice Hull Stove

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on November 12, 2014

Stove designed to use rice hulls as fuel

Cookware, Isabela biomass stove, Cabagan, clay, rice hull, rice husk, stove

Lumpia Wrapper Maker

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on May 16, 2014

This lad was making lumpia wrapper at Iloilo Central Market

Cookware, Iloilo Central Market, Iloilo City, lumpia, wrapper

Metered Cooking

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on May 5, 2014

Coin operated cooking stove in a backpacker's hotel. It's ¥10 for about 10 minutes of usage

Cookware, Japan backpacker, coin operated stove, hotel, meter, stove, Tokyo

Uling is Da King

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on March 27, 2014

I bought that small sack of uling at the leftmost side and it cost 100 pesos

Most households that use LPG or electricity for cooking still rely on uling (charcoal) for grilling purposes as the resulting carbonized flavor in meat tastes so much better than those electric-grilled ones. Even the smell of charcoal-grilled isaw and other roadside skewered meat is more inviting. Hence, when it comes to inihaw food culture of the country, uling is da king.

Cookware, Nueva Vizcaya biomass stove, charcoal, uling

Kalabasa Ukoy

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on February 6, 2014

Fritters as street food as usual (in countless variations) like this vegetable one made from squash.

Makeshift spider strainer and wok as necessities

Cookware, Food, Isabela Cauayan, fritter, kalabasa, makeshift, spider strainer, squash, street food, ukoy, wok

Puthu

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on January 1, 2014

Ricecake steaming via bamboo tubes similar to puto bumbong of Philippines.

Cookware, Food, Indonesia bamboo, Jogja, puthu, puto, ricecake, Yogyakarta

Repurposed Rice Cooker

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on November 4, 2013

Decommissioned rice cooker as charcoal stove

Camarines Sur, Cookware, Repurposing Bicol, biomass stove, charcoal stove, kalan, Naga, rice cooker

Bibingka Oven

Leave a comment Posted by Lana on October 19, 2013

A perfect bibingka is superior to any perfect pancakes out there. Whatever fruit, sauce or filling one can add to a pancake, the same can be done to a bibingka but resulting into a far more superior hot cake in taste minus the horrendous price.

Live charcoals in that square tin pan covering the clay pan where you put the bibingka batter in banana leaf and this is placed on top of clay stove also fueled with live charcoals. Presenting the rice cake oven